Show UAAH QUARRIES I is i a popular fallacy that one cano can-o to any part of the Rocky mountains and quarty stone for building purposes II Hut the fact Is that over the thousands of square miles of Iock that Is seen i protruding throughout the mountains there Is a very little of it that Is fit for commercial uses and much that is I good Is Inaccessible Hundreds of attempts at-tempts have been made to open quarries quar-ries In this and in adjoining Slates but only 1 few have proven to have permanent value Among them arc the granite such as Is used in the Salt Lake temple the gray Kuno sandstone I sand-stone of which the city and county building Is constructed the brown Nebo stone which has been Introduced In building the past year In the Mc CIIl residence and tho Des rel News OIOCR A harder stone suitable for paving blocks steps and curbing Is found In I Emigration canyon Red Butte and I near Park City But it Is too compact com-pact for ornamental work and so expensive ex-pensive to carve that Its use Is limited lied I There are no marble deposits I available In the State except that of the Wasatch Marble company at the head of Snake creek and Big Cotton wood canyon The railroad having reached Heber City It Is now more feasible than formerly to utilize this deposit and there Is no good reason why some enterprising stone operator I should not put this handsome white marble on the Salt Lake market No I handsomer stone has been Introduced than that of the Nebo brown stone I but the deposit has not proven to contain j con-tain such quantity a will give permanence I per-manence to the enterprise The Kyune gray stone however Is In an unlimited supply and Js attracting attention in I Colorado Montana and California to which States much more has been Khlppeln the past season than has been consumed at home The Sunpelo Oolite is deservedly growing In favor because of its purity and the case with which it can be worked A notable example Is the magnificent residence of Thomas Kearns and the palatial home of David Keith completed last year > 1 From SOD to 100 carloads of Red Butte i 2 stone have been used in this city durIng dur-ing the year all being brought in by wagon And the years consumption of Kyune stone was probably In the neighborhood of 150000 cubic feet I Is estimated that 25 per cent more of Utah stone was used in the State during dur-ing the year past than in the year previous pre-vious and twice afc much hns been shipped abroad as In any other year |