The Ely miner., 1931-07-17

bites off his words incisively when hs
talks. His home is in Hibbing.
THAT royalty of $2.70 cubic yarc
will pay Lake county WELL" he con-
tinued, and hope it does. We are
sure to get big production for the
reason that we can sell at big prices
every bit of quality granite that we
quarry. Owing to the tariff on Swed-
ish pearl granite we will have practi-
cally a monopoly in this country. The
demand will be enormous and we are
the only ones able to supply it.
This granite when finished has a
Jet black background with its surface
appearing as if it was actually studded
with pearls. That's where it gets its
name. 1t is extremely expensive
Mostly it will be used for cemetery
monuments and mausoleums. Marble
is only rarely used now for monuments
as it will not stand the weather and
some cemeteries have forbidden its use
This granite will be too expensive for
inside finishing except in the finest
monumental buildings, and too ex-
pensive for soda fountains.
The so-called black granite quar-
ried elsewhere in this country is not
black and is not in the same class with
our granite. Some brownish black
granite is found in Wisconsin and
some near black in Pennsylvania, with
some also in Canada but there never
has been found such granite as we
have in the Reserve anywhere in the
world except in Sweden.
Sweden ships its black pearl granite
all over the world and sells i'm
mediately at big prices all it can pro-
duce The tariff this country places
on it to protect American quarry op-
orators makes the price here very high
and attainable only by the rich. The
Swedish government last year received
100000 kronor in royalties from its
black granite production"
Anderson roughly estimated 1000
cubic feet week production at an
early date or as early as it can be
reached, as Anderson expressed it.
He disclaimed that figure as In any
sense representing the planned maxi
mum production. He was inSistent
that they would produce all the
granite they could.
This granite business is the greatest
gamble in the world" he went on
You never know definitely what you
have till you get it. It is true that
there is milky wave running
through some of it. That kind of
granite is worthless for us.
But if I was not sure that there
is a vast quantity of highgrade black
pearl granite up there 1 would not be
buying and dragging in $4,000 worth
of machinery to quarry it,"
How does Two Harbors figure in
this he was asked. The granite will
be trucked to Ely and loaded on cars
to be shipped for polishing. He was
asked why it would not be good policy
to ship it to Two Harbors to be sent
east in boats at the low water carrying
charges instead of by rail.
TT is quite possible that consider
able of the granite may be sent to Two
Harbors to be reloaded into ships for
eastern Cities" he answered. THAT
would make great saving in freight
rates, which is considerable factor in
product so heavy as granite.
But much of the granite will be
polished right in Minnesota at st.
Cloud which is really the granite
polishing center of the United States
Great plants there are devoted to
polishing granite.
Anderson declared the quarry would
be already in operation but for the
continued rains keeping the roads too
soft to move in the heavy machinery.
But I decided to wait no longer
and we are going in anyhow" he
answered defiantly. Your County En-
gineer Hanson is the greatest county
engineer in the world. He has helped
us in every imaginable way and he
even went so far as to offer to go
along with our machinery to help make
sure that we didn't get into trouble
I've watched him work up there and
he can build twice as much road at
half the expense as other counties can.
He knows all about his job and he's
marvel at getting work out of his men
without ever treating them any other
way than kindly"