Arizona republican., 1913-03-31
MARBLE DEPOSITS
 IN THE ORAG00Ms
Editor of Outwest Writes for Repub lican Description of this
 Arizona Find
CBy James Wharton James,

A special pullman car of Southern California and Arizona capitalists, architects and engineers went. on Sat urday last, to make a careful ex- animation of the recently discovered marble deposits near Dragoon, Ariz. They were joined at Tucson by Pro- lessor Guild of the Arizona State University; w. B. Metthews, Divison Engineer of the Southern Pacific System and several others.
 Several days were spent in going over this property which has already excited considerable attention through out the United States. It is now con- fidently asserted as result of these examinations that it is the most marvellous known deposit of marbles in the world.
 MT c. H. Harris, the builder of the Temple auditorium in Los Angeles, says that The deposits of marble at Dragoon are in volume practically unlimited, in transportation facilities unsurpassed, in quality all that the architect and builder can possibly de-
 mand. while their beauty will satisfy
 the most eXacting art critic"
 Another of the experts who went
 over the deposits before says: q am more than ever convinced that in these marble deposits is one of the modern wonders of the world. The Millions of cubic feet of conglOmerate are enough in themselves to excite the attention of the whole Pacific coast, and the lessen but still mar velous quantity of white. Egyptian | Sienese, and new combinations Of i colored marble should make Arizona and California the Greece of the New ] World by the fuller development of the artistic in sculpture and arch 1 itecture, that are thus made possible l The engineers and geologists art I unanimous in saying that the deposit: l are unique and remarkable in the sol l idity of their formation. freedom iron 1 seismic fractures, and their enOr- | nous volume. One of them declared | that there is enough of the con 1 glomerates actually in sight to sup | ply the world. at it's present rate o | use for ten thousand years.
 l Already some of the most notet l architects of America have sent thei l representatives to learn whether tn I SuDDlN or the dnu more Dedu | tiful combinations of colorS are to b. l found in quantities large enough t | justify their use in such tremendOu
 sky scrapers as are now being erect | ed in the larger eastern cities ant
 for private mansions, court houses l cathedrals, etc. One architect alone l after seeing the specimens, Gall O
 which have been gained without an
 quarrying whatever) wrote to tn
 owners that if they could demon
 strate their ability to deliver a mil lion surface feet of one particula
 kind he would immediately give ther an order to that extent for a cathe dral, the foundations for which ar now being laid As the price todd of the only marble at all equal to thi is $12 surface foot. it can well b. l seen that such an order as that WOult | immediately place the quarry in tn | forefront of American industries. We understand that it is the desire 1 of the promoters of this enterprise tC 1 keep it's control absolutely in tht 1 hands of Arizona and southern Cali l fornia capitalists. MT Dwight B l Heard of this city, was on the trair with the engineers and expressed !! himself as desirous of taking an in terest in the deposits if the reports of the engineers were as favorable l as the preliminary survey suggested.