Arizona republican., 1913-03-02

present day and modern structure and it is for this reason I feel con fident it will be interesting to Gll readers to learn of the extensive and varied bodies of marble within our own state.
 It is not many years since all mar bles used in America were imported. | Then Vermont supplied the demand ! quite q little and several other states previously mentioned But for the | quantity quality and varied beauties in marble Arizona will surely take | first place. It is found at several | points in the state. Near old Fort | Bowie the Arizona Marble Co is i opening up and shipping a beautiful 1 quality of stone of many figurings ! and is of ideal beauty for matched | panelling The marble beds lie upon | a basal cOnglomerate following with | transition beds, quartZtes, silicious | limestones and limestone All the | formations are of variable thickness | The marble is now being quarried | with the latest type of channelling | machines and all the latest improve 1 ments for working and finishing the | stone A traction engine hauls to San Simon, the nearest rairbad | point fourteen miles distant and it | is now being marketed and is con i stantly being called for by architects l for the better class of buildings. As l the quarry opens up more can he | supplied and when the full demand l can be met it will undoubtedly take 1 the preference of all other American l or imported marble, for some Of it's | tintings are unsurpassed, gradating | from delicate pink to the darker blue l shades. There are two claims called l the Pavonazzo and Pentelicus, each l comprising 16O acres
 This company has also a white | marble placer location some miles | from the one previously mentioned 1 at the head of the White Tail Canyon l and it may prove to be the largest 1 area of unbroken white marble ever i discovered Up to the present only | sufficient work has been accom- | plished to insure the patent which | has recently been obtained. The ! geological conditions are simple and 1 apparently devoid of complexities | The main bodies of blue limestone and ] it's metamorphosed condition of lime | carbonate marbe) lies in practically 1 an unbroken series between two mas | sive and prominently rugged uplifts 1 of broken pinlIish and purplish rhyo ! lite on it's north and south sides i These igneous upIifts have about the l same course as the marble. The | limestone is classified as belonging to l, the carboniferOus series with the eX- l ceptiOn of very small and limited ! patch stained by limonite. the entire | series, extending over mile, is purely | white and almost without a break. 1 It appears also entirely free of fraC | lures and it's quality compares with i any of the old world marbles and in | quantity there is enough to last for | all time
 Breccia marble is composed of frag | mentary limestone cemented together | and is often very beautiful, when the fragments are of different colors, or 1 are embedded in a base that con
 trasts well. At the Arizona marble property this horizon has not vet re- ! ceived any attention. In the Pan 1 American. little work has been done ! but some surface specimens have | been stabbed and polished and are | an interesting and beautiful example | of this class of stone
 The Pan American property is also ] situated in Cochise county and about ! two miles from Dragoon. The group i aggregates about 112O acres. The !! marbles can also be CIassed as be i longing to the carbOniferous age and ! lie between blue and silicious lime | stone and quartzite and extend for fully one and d half miles. The pre- ponderance of this. probably = per cent, being white marble The other is of wonderfully beautiful and
 variegated character including all shades and fantastic figurings. One portion of the deposit exposes marble of a light yellow tinge to a delicate pink or rose-mist tint Other points present the true Siennese and what l is termed the gold vein cOlorings to d l deeper rhineWine In fact the color | inGs are so many and varied it Is | difficult to designate them It Is inn | possible to prognosticate what this | large deposit is capable of producing 1 but the area is surely a valuable | one and possible of a revelation cf 1 beauty in marble which cannot he l contemplated Up to the present lit | tie work has been accomplished.
 When the deposit is opened up in the manner it deserves, the baby state
 may be presenting to the entire world | it's beautiful and incOmparable pie | lures in the slabs of it's native mar | ble and Arizona will become famed | for it's marbles in addition to it's cop | per production It only awaits the hand of capital and the skilled arti- 1 san to show the world what Arizona ] marbles really are.