Bisbee daily review., 1911-02-21

American sculptors become acquaint- ed with it's many features of merit. It las a crushing strength of I2.- Dro bounds 10 the square inch The Ior. any operating oB these .edses has installed cutting and polish ing mill, and e compressor plant. The product ia hauled to Bowie station over a road constructed by the company at 0 cost of about S2o.- o0e, by traction train.
 In the Santa Rita Ulountains. eass of Tucson. is a vast deposit of marble which has recently been ex- amined by experts, one report stat ing that the deposits contain an enormous ledge of Nubian marble The Nubian marble used by the Greek and Roman sculptors in many of tke cid world masterpieces found in the Vatican. the L1sv-o. phr N.i.seo Cal ltolino in Rome and oth CT temples of art was br0ugh, from ucrthern Africa The black marble in the Santa Ria mountains has not been developed as yet. but stands as one of the rich natural re sources Of Arizona.
 There are immense deposits of gray granite and white marble south of tbe lodges which Inc sri- 2o,m Ma,ale company $ operating upon and many ieims Aarc ben fed on 'hese. which arc easily lea'bed by spurs from the El raso |, ssl thwes.o'E railroad. , .' firm Douglas to Courtand, iravorsias the Sulphur Springs valley.
 Much cf :Le dnisl,iEf stonc of the Arizoas state cap tcl bHi:dia- at Phoenix is of tufa and grey granite The latter was obtained from a quarry beyond the Mari copa range, thirty miles south oi the city The granite taken from this quarry is proving more popula- every year. and is holding up under i every weather condition. The tufa in the state capitol was quarried ! from a mountain that rises from Kirkland valley on the Phoenix G Prescott railroad A side track has been built there. and the build 1 ing stone quarried from a face Tufa is very soft and easily q1arried when taken from che mountain. but becomes hard and durable when ex-
 1sed 60 the weather The use Of ! the vast tufa deposits in Arizona as a material for building purposes would not only reduce fire insur- ancs rates ir the territory, but also go long way towards con- serving the forests of oak and pine lrc iher big quarry of this tufa stone IS located abIot a mile south of Kingman. in Mchave county. the property of Charles Metcalfe Of Phoenix. He has opened the quarry and samples of the stone were ex
 hibited ill Los Angeles. Another building stone in Arizona, which has become popular, especially in Pres colt and Phoenix, is the red sand stone from the Grand Canyon of the Colorado at Flagstaff. These sandstone quarries have been work. ed for 30 years and the four-foot
 fences around many of the resi-
 dence lots in Prescott are construct ed of this building material. This stone is also employed in mauy of the finest of the buildings in los Angeles. among tAem the new fed erai building. Pubic buildings in many states, from Oregon to he Gulf of Mexico, have drawn ypon this great quarry for tie deep red
 sioIe whicl haa taken pran,.nen.
 f'ace in the building of faca les
 | There was time when the onyx
 fields of Arizona attracted more at tention than they are doing today
 This is mainly due to the fact that ine onNy 4uarries have been opened in Mexico, and ali-water transporta- tion from the coast of Mexico to 1 he cities of eastern United States
 cheaper than railroad transporta- tion of the product of the Arizona
 iuarries- Tn coloTing and other
 ualities the Arizona onyx excels any like product in the world. The Imarkings in the Arizona onyx are
 delicate and varied. while the | @AtAANaH aloHt 10 or more SllIf
 shade. The principal Arizona de-
 posit is a Mayer, Yavapai county
 first discovered by a gold prospect
 or from Los Angeles. and later
 srked by a company organized in lihat city. Another onyx deposit lis in the Cane Greek mining dis trict, north of Phoenix The pro duet of this quarry may be seen
 in many handsome buildings in San
 Francisco and Los Angeles, whither
 most Of the slabs have been ship. ped The petrified forests of Ar
 zona. twelve in number. for a long
 ime furnished an exceptionally
 beautiful stone which Eay ,c SC
 in many of the mansions ,i Eurcae
 and he United States. Tifc stons
 trunks Of ta'len fonarch5 Of the 1 forests were cut cr,,ss wise. ana
 the disc ttcs highly polished Thess
 forests arc TOW protected by tho lg0yernment