The Republican journal., 1907-05-16
Lydia E. Pinkham' Vegetable Compound
GRANTEES OF MAINE.

During the summer of 1905, Mr.. r.
Nelson Dale Of the United States Geo
logical Survey, visited all the impor-
TINT granite quarries in Maine The
results of this work are soon to be
presented in a bulletin entitled 'The
GRANTEES of Maine," to which DR..
George Otis Smith has contributed an
Introductory chapter and map showing
the geographic and general geologic re-
lations of the GRANTEES in that State.
The bulletin will also include the
statistics of granite production in
Maine for 1905, prepared by Miss A. T.
Coons.
The number of quarries and pros
poets visited, including those of ''black
granite" for monumental use, amount
ed to 129. The capital invested in the
entire Maine granite industry in 1905
amounted to about So, 100000. This es-
innate is based upon fair valuations of
the quarries themselves, of the plants,
and of the amount of working capitai''
that is required to carry on the present
business.
The report is designed to be helpful
to those who are engaged in quarrying
and working granite, as we'll as to
architects, contractors, and dealers in
oGOuC, anu IL Will also
make known to biologists the results of
such scientific observations as were
made in the course of the work. In
order to accomplish these various pur-
poses it has been divided into two parts
"a scientific and an economic part.
The first is practically a brief text
book on granite i'll general, illustrated
by the quarries OF Maine and written
as far as has been possible in untech-
meal, granite language, SO as to be ill.,
telligble to working and business men.
This part treats of the origin, miner
illogical and chemical composition,
texture, structure, physical properties,
and classification of granite and ''black
grantees Under the heading 'Struc-
ture' the nature and origin of sheets,
rift, grain, flow structure, joints, head
lngs, and faults are considered. bikes,
veins, ''knots," goodies, inclusions and
contacts are described and discussed, as
well as the diScolOration and decom-
position of granite.
In the economic part the various
tests OF granite, the adaptation of the
stone to different uses, and the methods
OF granite quarrying are first consider
ed. An economic classification of
Maine GRANTEES based upon visual
characteristics is next given, and then
follow the descriptions of the quarrieS
and their products, the matter here be-
ing arranged by counties in alpha bette
order. These descriptions follow uni
form method, taking up in succession
a. the name and location of quarry.
name and address of operator and
superintendent; (2) the granite, includ.
ing its description in the rough and un-
der the microscope, together with the
results of any tests and analyses; (3) the
quarry, its dimensions, drainage and
water supply; AZ the stripping and rock
I structure; ~ the plant, including an
enumeration of all machines and
pneumatic tools, to show it's capacity;
20 the means of transportation; 60 la
Dor, both OF men and animals; (S) prod
uct, its uses and market, together with
the names and location of buildings or
monuments containing the stone.
AT the end of the report is bibliog-
raphy on the economic geology of
granite and glossary of such scientific
terms as were unavoidably used and al
so of current quarry terms. The re-
port includes IA plates illustrating
various features of scientific or econom-
&c interest in the quarries or their prod
uct and Al text figures. Most of these
text figures are diagrams showing the
course of joints, headings, and bikes at
the quarries, but others illustrate ''rift,"
sheet structure, "sap," or the use of ex-
plosives, or show the location of in
dividual quarries at the industrial cen
tiers. The situation of these centers is
indicated by symbols on the geological
map.