Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-26
I1oLD oCyence Ju0KeS reaSure
Of Georgia Sand and Gravel
ECULIARLY interesting and serviceful

among the puDllC documents OIL tue
year is t., report of the State Geolog-
ical Survey on the Sand and Gravel Deposits
of Georgia. The collection and dissemination
of data of this kind is important beyond
measure to the commemorative prosperity
and upbuiding. Much of Georgia's as OF
the worlds, development is traceable to the
unobtrusive yet farreaching abOrs of scen-
lists who like Professor McCallie and his
co-workers in the Geological Survey have
gone forward year after year gathering
knowledge and evolving ideas that light the
way to fresh realms of natural treasure and
further enrichments Of human life. The
chemist, the geologist, the entomologlSt, ana
! all steadfast searcher. into the life OF
| things-these it is to whom We are chiefly
| indebted for material progress and ever
widening opportunities. Compared with such
work and its goodly results. the buster OF
what commonly passes as politics" is pitt
! ably trivial.
We are prospecting now through the
! thoughts and discoveries of scientists who la
! bored ages ago and who in their own day
were looked upon with condescension or in
| difference, if not hostility. by lordlings and
money grubbers. From the ideas of those pa
| tent seekers and ponderers came the me-
chanical revolution of the Nineteenth CEN
tury came the immense gains in mans pow
er over the earth and it's forces, came the
urge and the instruments for a new struc-
ture of civilization. Says historian OF the
times, Think of the coal and iron and sand
dragged out of the banks and pits, wrenched,
wrought, molten and cast, TO be flung at
last, a slender glittering pinnacle of steel
and glass, six hundred feet above the crowd
ed city" There we behold the doings of the
scientist who explores matter that he may
capture and coercc it into human service.
Yet the shallow minded ask why we need
geological bulletins on sand and gravel, why
we need mere liberal appropriations for all
| +hA tot q
and Federal Governments devoted to scien-
tific service, why we need more adequate en-
dowments for colleges and universities where
scientific research and study have their root
age!
Numerous industr es, from Slass-making
to bodybuilding, will find the data in the
four hundred pages of this richly illustrated
bulletin of the Georgia Geological Survey ex-
ceedingly worth while, not only now but for
long years to come. There are detailed de-
scriptions of the properties OF sand and graV-
ell along with general classification &C
cording to their origin, chemical and miner
illogical content, and use. Particularly IN
teresting are the accounts of how they can
be utilized for building purposes, foundry
needs, pavement basing, highway surtaclns,
railroad ballast, the manufacture OF practlcal
and decorative wares, and III divers otner
ways of large Importance and large promise
to industrial activities. There is also valu-
able chapter on the production, PREPARATION
and transportation Of sand ard gravel. an
other on prospecting for them, and Sill an
other on the industry itself, with particular
reference to prices. royalties. labor costs
and markets. The remainder and greater
part of the ulletin is given over to de-
scription> of the distribution of sand and gray
ell in Georgia by geological provinces, map
showing in color the location of deposits IN
each county. The bulletin is entitled "A
Report on the Sand and Gravel Deposits OF
Georgia by l.. P. Teas, Assistant State Geolo-
gist" Copies are procurable fire from Pro-
fessor S. w. McCallie. State Ceologist. pro-
vided fifteen cents for postage accompanies
the application