The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-12-16
MARBLE PRODUCTION
DROPPED 10 PER CENT
Vermont Easily Retains Supremacy in
This Branch of the Stone Industry
of the United States.

The value of marble sold in the United
States in 1917, according to reports made
by the producers to g. f. Loughlin, Unit
ed States geological survey, department
of the interior, was $63303sT a decrease
Of 10 per cent t$702,7S4) from the value
in 1916 and the lowest annual value for
our marble output since 1904 The guam
tity produced in 1917 was about 3,627 $50
cubic feet (3l0,l30 tons), as against
about 4,795,000 cubic feet (409,970 tonsl
in l9l6-a decrease Of "a per cent The
quantity produced in 1917 included al
small proportion of serpentine, as shown
in a later paragraph, but no onyx mar
ble.p
OF the marble sold in 1917, 2,l56,35l
cubic feet (about lS4,370 tonsl, valued
at S6,l00,2S0, was building and monu
marhe-a decrease of 33 per cent
in quantity and llper cent in value com
pared with 1915. The average price Of
this stone per cubic foot was S2S3 in
1917 and 1913 in 1916.
The marble sold for use as fiux, ter
razzo and mosaic work, and ornamental
stone, and the pulverized marble sold
for use in agriculture and in manufac
lures amounted to l25,764 tons, valued
at $230,l07 The marble sold for these
purposes in 1916 amounted to 1927
short tons valued at $209,l55.
Production By Uses.
The total value Of marble sold in 1917
for use as building stone t$3,702 ,563I
was % per cent less than that sold in
1915, and the total quantity (l,470,793
cubic feet was 35 per cent less. Exte
rior building stone, which represented 80
per cent Of the total quantity Of building
stone, decreased 81 per cent in quantity
and 25 per cent in value; stone for inte-
rior work, which represented "a per cent
of the total quantity, decreased 81 per
cent in quantity and 20 per cent in value.
Marble sold dressed for use in the eX-
terror of buildings was the only building
stone product that showed increase in
quantity (l3,549 cubic feet in 1917; but
the value of this product decreased $685.
1928 al per cent? The general average
price of marble sold as building stone
trough and dressedl in 1917 was $2.52
per cubic foot; the average value of ex-
terror stone was sos and of interior
stone S277. Vermont and Tennessee
produced over SO per cent of the quantity
Of marble quarried for use as building
stone, each state reporting over 100000
cubic faat. Nermont's output was nearly
divided between exterior and in
terror stone, whereas % per cent of Ten
nessee's product was interior building
stone About 81 per cent of the Yer
mont and over so per cent of the Ten
nessee marble was sold as rough stone
Georgia and Missouri were the next larg-
est producers Of building marble, the
quantity produced in each state exceed
ing 100000 cubic feet.
The value of the marble produced for
use in 1917, including rough
and dressed stone, increased S3l8,307 us
per cent? over that in 1915. The guam
tity, however, decreased 255 $50 cubic
feet t27 per cent? The average price
per cubic foot was $3.50 in 1917, which
was 1929 more than in 1916 There was
a large increase in the quantity Of
dressed monumental stone sold in 1917
l07403 cubic feet ga per cent, but a
decrease Of 1862 ,926 cubic feet l49 per
,ent) in the quantity of rough stone.
Vermont produced more than IS per cent
1877 AIS cubic feett, and Georgia more
han 25 per cent Of the country's output
If monumental marble Missouri, New
York and Tennessee rank next in this
product
Marble for ornamental and "other
uses declined in quantity but increased
in value in 1917, as it did in 1916 Mar
ole for "other uses" includes rough stone
sold to lime burners, to carbonie acid
factories, to pulp mills and to blast fur
naces; crushed stone for road metal and
terrazzo; small cubes for mosaics; and
finished stone for electrical apparatus
and ornamental purposes. The stone sold
for fux to blast furnaces amounted to
81 ,194 long tons, valued at $24 500, and
for terrazzo to II ,55l short tons, valued
at $5l ,2lS. In 1916 the stone sold for
terrazzo was 24,340 short tons, valued at
sS3, 466.
Serpentine Verde Antique).
The serpentine elassed as marble in
this report is that variety which is used
as building or ornamental stone instead
of marble.
No serpentine was sold rough for use
as exterior building stone either in l9l6l
or in 1917. The output in 1917 was val.
ued at $l94,9l6, which was $44, l29 more
than in 1915 and only 1920 less than in
1915. Sales in 1917 were reported from
Vermont, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts,
California and Maryland, the states be-
ing here named according to value of
output, one producer reporting from each
state.
The number of operators in 1917 was
80, which was II less than in 1916 These
operators were distributed among 1911
states. The value of the output of Yer
mont represented nearly as per cent of
the total, that of Georgia IL per cent,
and that Of Tennessee IA per cent the
product of the three largest producing
states thus representing 70 per cent of
the value As there are only small
number of producers in many states, it is
not possible to show the production by
states without revealing individual pro-
duction The figures in the following
table, however, are itemized as far as
they can be without disclosing confden,
tial reports from producers, Although
increase in value is shown in only three
Of the states listed separately, four 9TH
ers Alabama, New Mexico, North Caro-
lima and Utah--also reported increase.
Value of marble sold in the United
States in 1919 and 1917.