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Show meet the demand. Bear in mind that first class marble for statuary purposes meets a quick sale in New York and in all eastern cities at $22 to $'5 per cubic foot weighing 170 pounds. Utah, which in addition to her treasure treas-ure of gold and silver, supplies so many varieties of useful and unique minerals; furnishes surface evidence that among her prolilie mineral treasures she will in . the near future supply the markets of this continent with white statuary marble in massive and porfect cubes suitable for collossal forms of beauty. Statuary marble taken from the surface sur-face of workings near Nephi in this territory, when aclual'y compared with Italian in thcjmarble yards in New York and other cities in eastern and southwestern south-western states, has, without exception, been declared by dealers and competent compe-tent judges, superior in grain and whiteness to the imported article Owing to the "action upon it of atmospheric atmos-pheric forces, the outcrop may be lino marble, but its exposure will have made it unsound." This is true of the Neplii marble, and although it improves as the surface is removed, tho present depth of development, (not to exceed thirty feet), furnishes only material for building rock, limo and cement of excellent ex-cellent quality. "The superior excellence excel-lence of marble as a building stone consists in its strength and durability, its resistance to heat, and its non-absorption of water.' In a series of tests of building stones undertaken in tho interests of the fire-insurance business, busi-ness, in culling found that sevon varieties varie-ties of marble, including all these commonly com-monly used for building purposes, are uninjured at 800 degrees. Of these, three are uninjured until the heat is sufficient to change them into quicklime, quick-lime, which heat must exceed 1200 do-grees do-grees and be continuous for somo time." Lime made of this white marble is absolutely ab-solutely pure, perfectly while and strong and hardens under water. With a proper admixture of chemical substances, sub-stances, plentiful in most localities, cement equal to that imported could be manufactured from it. It is needless to say that as a flux in smelting ores it is unsurpassed, containing, according to the analysis of the manager of the llannauer furnace, 01) per cent of carbonate car-bonate of lime. It is fair to presume that in tho good time coming, when all the home capitalists capi-talists great and small, are busy in swapping jack-knives and organizing banks, some level-headed business men from among tho outside' barbarians, will come along and snap up this marble mar-ble deposit and make the solitudes of Juab hum with the throb of engines, the rasping of rock saws and the songs of hundreds of skilful operatives. Tho mountains round about this Smithsonian Zion hold within , their rocky ribs all the elements of material prosperity; lot us hope that some outside out-side Moses at the head of the combined forces of labor and capital, will smito the rock and causo to flow tho healing waters of legitimate enterprise and wealth. TUB FUTUKE OF UTAH MAU11I.E. In the Century magazine for tho present pres-ent month may be found an illustrated article on marble as found in tho Vermont Ver-mont quarries. A description of the marble found in the West-Rutland vein illustrates the statement mado in the encyclopedia that "pure white marble in marketable quantities is rarely found." Hitherto 'Italy has furnished the largest supply of white statuary marble for the markets of tho world. But it is conceded that the Italian arti-' cle is deteriorating. Secretary of War Proctor, who has been very successful in his investments in quarrying and manufacturing marble, says of the Ital- , ian in comparison with Vermont white marble: "I think the best of it is better bet-ter for statuary that is to be kept .within .with-in doors, becauso it is a little harder and can be cut to finer lines; but though harder than tho Rutland while marble, , for some cause not yet fully understood, no Italian marble will stnd exposure to the weather in any climate as well as the American. Tho Italian is about as hard as tho Sutherland Falls, which is none of it white. Our layers of white marble are growing harder as we go into the earth." And here it may be said that these layers and stratas are defective in that they aro not found in strata thicker- than fifteen inches, whereas, to meet the average demand, a thickness of from twelve to thirty-six inches is needed. The article in the Century gives twelve distinct layers in the Vermont marble pits which have been opened to a depth of forty-seven feet. Of these only the fourth from the surface is rated as "white statuary" and this is limited to three feet in thickness thick-ness in the "Report on the Geology of Vermont." Thus it will be seen that so far as white statuary marble is concerned, tho Vermont quarries with their narrow belts and thin strata do not and cannot |