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Show UTAH NTATUARV IMA Kill. K. An Illustrated three-column article iu a recent issue of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Globe-Democrat, treating of the great marble quarries at Carrara, Italy, has peculiar interest for the reason that, so far as known, Utah has tho only deposit in this country of. pure white statuary marble, equal iu color aud grain to that of Carrara. Tho cropping of this marble mar-ble iu Utah have only been scratched upou tho surface, showing bodies of broken material to the depth of from thirty to forty feet. At a depth of fifty to oiio hundred fecit it is fair to presume that solid marble will be reached suitable for statuary purposes pur-poses aud easily worth $23 per cubic foot. In tho meantime the abundance of broken material, properly burned, makes tho whitest, purest and strongest building and hydraulic lime in tho world. The scarcity of lime and building build-ing material in this city makes it au object to utilizo this marble, and the attention at-tention of business men may well be turned in this direction. These quarries are threo and a half miles from railway facilities aud to work them to advnutago, first as lime aud cement producers, and secondly as promising and profitable claims of marketable mar-ketable statuary marble, it is necessary to build a side track from the main lino of railway. This requires capital and a concert of action with the railway company. com-pany. The quarries of marble at Carrara havo been worked for 2000 years, and the. supply may bo considered inexhaustible, inex-haustible, borings having shown that for at least 000 feet beneath the deepest deep-est workings reposes a solid mass of the purest white marble. All kinds of whito marble aro not available for statuary purposes, that which is best adapted for this use being known as saccharine marble, having the appearance appear-ance and grain of the iinest loaf sugar. The slightest tendency to scale or split in any direction is fatal to its value for statuary purposes, though such defect might not impair its uses for slabs or monuments. .Statuary marble must be absolutely free from grain, must work evenly in all directions, and have nono of thoso veins which, iu some other kiuds of material, are a striking beauty. While, for the manufacture of lime and cement, these Utah quarries can be made to pay fair prolit, tho resulting value accruing iu case of striking a solid body of marble equal iu grain and color to that now found upon the surface, sur-face, would lie. well-nigh incalculable. |