Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-10-07
II MINERALS GGFF
KLAHOMA GREAT
pOSIrS UNDERTAKING SrArI
ARI WORTH MILLIONS.
dJATI0N IS Staggering
nitc Beds Alone u Considerable
'oriii--Oil and Coal thicf Sour
Ccs of Wealth.

'hilc Tulsa constitutes a main
zee Of OIL limestone and coal for
state of Oklahoma, the counties
irecr, Johnson, KioWa. swanson,
,afiche and Murray furnish the
e's supply of granite.
fhile the average citizen of okla
Va has haly idea that the state
considerable quantity OF mineral
lth hidden away somewhere, as a
die has put little idea of the guam
= Of mineral deposits and prob
his most unclear idea is IN the re
10 the quantity of oklahoma
ite awaiting the drill of the quarry
Few people IN Tulsa know even
granite is to bee found in okla
a In any paving quantities,
the aggregate, the value Of the
sits in Oklahoma is SO staggering
the tabled mines of King Solomon
all their gold and jeweI produc-
would not purchase them If quar-
finished and put on the market
/ once. A very conservative es-
te of the value of the granite de
Is around Granite, Oklahoma,
g is placed at a billion and half
srt, while there are many other
ries which are exceedingly rich.
he geological history of these i'm
Sc mountains Of granite is exceed
interesting
ring the geological time that part
Of Oklahoma was alternately
lerged below the ocean and elr'
d above II many times. During
period of submergence beneath
water, various kinds of deposits
laid down on the ocean bottom.
n the country was raised above
water these deposits hardened and
7e solid rock When the land
4 out of the water for any length
ime, the action of the elements
wind. water and frost, wore
y the rocks and carried them
ugh rivers into the ocean.
he oldest granite in oklahoma or
merica, is the Headquarter noun
,, presumably of Archean age. and
sposed in the Southwest part Of
state. Granite usually is consider
part of the original crust of the
n, and granite or some form of
nous rock, underlies all the strait
rocks; that is to say, If a hole
3 drilled deep enough anywhere on
surface of the earth ii would en-
ter the ingenious rock. We may
me that all of oklahoma is under
with some form of igneOus rock,
ably granite, which, however. now
posed IN but few places.
lese deposits are believed to be
nuous although they are So deep
lried under Younger formations as
lakc ii impossible to trace any
ections. If this be true, Oklaho-
at the time of the deposition of
most beautiful Red Rose" gran
must have been portion of
/ sea which covered most of the
ed States. These conditions pust
endured for an immense length
me, probably for hundreds of
sands or even millions of years.
nally there occurred one Of those
DDS of emergence, which have oc
ID at intervals throughout
lgic time The region occupied
he Headquarter mountains Of the
alta range We're elevated in the
/, Is two vast domos, ranging in
hth from six hundred to one
sand feet, and some fourteen
S around at the base.
1907 oklahoma ranked thirty
in the production. of stone;
later it had advanced to thirty
nd. and at that rate it is safe to .
let that the next United States F.
)gical survey will record it among
foremost The industry in Okla
a is. as yet, in its infancy but it is
ty child with every promise of a
art maturity, and. from present
.ations. oklahoma granite com
es alone have enough beautiful
ite i'm actual sight To build all the
ic buildings in the United states
he next two hundred years
e location Of the red rose granite