Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-01-14

a supply sufficient for all building pur- poses and for all packing and crating for at least 20 years to come
 Within 20 miles of the marble beds the enormous energy which lies in the falls of the Kettle river is being har- messed with view to furnishing cheap electric power for quarrying purposes. The marble deposits are along the right of way of the Spokane Falls & Northern road, which is now owned and operated by the Great Northern, and James J. Hill is offering special inducements in the way of freight rates to develop this wonderful coun- try.
 In the New York market Italian Pavonazza never sells for less than SIP per cubic foot It is badly shat tered marble The Stevens county marble duplicates all of the Italian markings, surpasses it in beauty, pre- sents perfect solidity, and can be quarried and sold in New York for $6 per cubic foot with a net profit of $370 per cubic foot.
 The beds from which this matchless marble comes rise from the sandy flats of the river, appearing in some places in long, unbroken slopes up which one may climb to height of 800 to 700 feet above the river level, travelling on solid marble all the way. These slopes are in many places smooth and solid, the pattern of the marble show ing unbroken at the surface. In other places the marble rises above the river level in great bluffs. one above another. In many places the marble is found in smooth floors at the summits and in broad slopes dropping to the river banks. At the surface 1t is re- markedly solid, indicating that the beds lie undisturbed to great depth, it's broad, unbroken surface of white displaying bold marking of blue and jet black. Frequently the top of the mass can be found floors an acre in expanse which are as smooth. hard and even as a rolled and leveled as- phalt pavements.
 A great deal of the marble at the surface is cream tinted and is crossed with jet black veins, resembling in pattern the famous Pavonazza marble of Italy, but much more solid and is free from the pit holes which damage the Italian product. It takes an ex- tremely high polish and retains 1t. and its texture is dense, uniform and very fine crystalline, showing in many places marked translucency. There is one tract alone of this marble destined to rival the Pavonazza which contains 1910 acres and which is capable of producing the fines. marble for cen turies to come without exhausting the supply.
 This is not the only factor which has given Stevens county the reputation in the Northwest of being one of the most wonderful counties in the United States. Stevens is the northeast COT. ner county of Washington and con tains 2,945 square miles of territory and about 1S,000 people. The Spokane Falls & Northern road bisects 1t north and south and provides it with mar kets. It is semi-mountainous and in its mountains are gold and silver for the treasure hunter, copper and lead for the industries, lime and cement, quarries of onyx and jasper, marble. granite and slate for the builder. clays for the potter and the brickmaker. and in the foothills is timber in abund- ance. In the Columbia, the Pen d'Oreille and other valleys which these rich mineral mountains inclose are thousands of acres of the most fertile land imaginable, land upon which all kinds of fruits and cereals are being raised in abundance. amid scenery which Is beautiful beyond description.
 In speaking of the mineral deposits a recent discovery of tungsten and molybdanite must not be forgotten. There are only seventy tons of tung- sten produced in this country annual ly. and 1t sells for s3,000 ton. It is also produced in Australia, 2.5o0 tons annually, and in Sweden and Germany. but all of this output is absorbed by the Krupp works, where it is used in hardening steel. Large veins of this metal have been discovered in Stew ems county from which can be pro- duced more than 1000 tons annually. MoIybdanite. which sells for ss5o ton. is produced from a mins in Maine at the rate of 50 or 60 tons a year, and Colorado produces about 150 tons. The vein discovered in Stevens county is six feet wide. 9 feet deep and more thar a mile long
 s. GLEN ANDRUs.