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Show BOUGHT SLATK QUARRIES. A Denver Man Invests In the Uig Deposits fVear Prove. News comes from Provo that E. C. Burton of Denver has purchased the 6latc quarries near that city, formerly owned" by F. W. C. Hathenbruek. Twenty practical slate quar-rymcn quar-rymcn will he put to work on tho iiatlicu-bruek iiatlicu-bruek claim inside of ten days, and in twenty' days slate w ill be out on the dump. When spring opens up, it is intended that at least fifty men will be at work, and buildings erected in which rooting slate, pavement blocks, and ornamental slate w ill be turned. In conversation last night, Mr. Burton staled that he had visited nearly every slate quarry in the United Slates, but the Provo veiri of slate is the largest he has yet seen. The quality is equal to any and superior to many of the eastern slate quarries. The color of the slate is lasting, which is one ecntlal qualification, as most of the slate In the east fades by exposure. The reporter ventured to ask him what he thought of the position of the vein whi ther it laying on It. edge would prove any material drawback, lie promptly answered that it did not make say difference, hut that in all probability i: would be found perfectly lint when worked in some distance. In relation to (he green serpentine stone which joins the slate, Mr. Burton pronounces it the ttnest kind of ornamental roi k. on account ac-count of the fact that it is susceptible of bciu; polished similar tu the best marble. |