The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-11-02
BAY STATE GRANTEES
OF WIDE VARIETY
They Are Described by T. Nelson Dale
in United States Geological Sur
vey, Just Published.

Many thousands if not millions of
years ago the present surface of New
England was covered with an enormous
thickness of sedimentary roek-thous-
Rnds of feet Of sandstones, states, and
pther of the softer kinds OF rocks. In
the course of time dynamite agents
pushed upward into this sedimentary
lock crust great masses and Jets of mol
ten material--the liquid magma from
The earth's interior. Probably none of
This material was forced entirely through
The heavy sedimentary cover but the
polten masses gradually cooled and crys-
tallized within the older rocks, form
Ing rranite. Then at the rate Of per-
laps an inch or more in thousand
years, these softer rocks were eroded
br worn and washed away, leaving the
granite exposed in many places, as it
Is found in Maine, Massachusetts, and
the other New England states to-day.
The United States geological survey
has been making detailed study of
these granite rocks of New England, and
the latest contribution is a report on
the GRANTEES of Massachusetts,, by T.
Nelson Dale, just published by the
survey. These GRANTEES, according to
Mr.. Dale, are of such variety as to lend
themselves to a wide range of economic
rses. Those most notable for their
adaptation are the massive construction
81 GRANTEES of Milford, Fall River, New
Bedford, and Rockport; the hard paw
Ing granite of Rockport; the polish gran
tie of Quincy; the gneisses of Mon
ION, Westford Fitchburg, and Uxbridge,
fsed for bridges, base courses, curbing,
and sills and the aplite of bingham
fsed for seam faced work and for struc-
lures in which unusual crushing or
transverse strength is required.
Are Found in Many CoIors
The Massachusetts GRANTEES vary
greatly not only in texture but also
h color and shade some are pink; 9th
IRIS pea green, olive green, gray of va
tious shades, from light to very dark,
tesides grays of slight blush, purplish,
Dr. greenish tinge; one kind is brown.
Among the more notable works of
Massachusetts, granite are the Pennsyl-
rama terminal in New York and the
Mckinley Memorial at Canton, Ohio;
The Boston and Baltimore post Offices;
The army and navy training stations at
Newport, R. T.; Bunker Hill monument;
The large polished balls at Rock Island,
H.. and Fairmount cemetery, Newark,
h. j.. and the Whitney monument at
Noodlawn cemetery, New York
OF special economic interest, says Mr..
Dale, is the utilization of the extreme
" hard, almost sheetless aplite of Hing
lam, which is full of limonitic headings
For number Of years there has been
! demand in the vicinity of Boston for
Justly, seam faced granite for the ex
Ierior of buildings, and quarries were
opened in bingham to supply such stone.
It is now proposed to transform these
ordinary obstacles to granite quarrying
lato things of beauty by carving bas-
Ieliefs of leaves and garlands on the
ron stained joint faces. This is done
ly cutting away the sap or rusty part,
which is usually from one-eighth to one
fourth inch thick so that the leaves in
brown proiet on a light grayish ground
Blocks thus worked can be utilized in
ornamental bands on exteriors.
Utilizing the Waste at Quarries.
A noticeable feature at many of the
Massachusetts granite quarries is the re-
rent addition of stone crusher for
turning the small waste into material