Show UTAH BUILDING STONE In early days In these valleys the people built lop houses for the average cltixen while the more favored in point of finance would selc ornament and greater pretensions in the lathed and plastered style and which answered a good purpose In this arid climate La ter came the adobe the rough brick ana now stone and pressed brick are fast coming Into use for all the better class of buildings not only In this ctr but throughout time Slate both in town and country In stone there arc so many varieties that all cannot be described There are the stratified or bedded coming out in layers of various thickness each layer being uniform in size For mimi dations and for walls laid In regular order some of these varieties not onlv make exceedingly solid structures but because of uniformity and tints are pleasing to look at Other quarries are In Immense blocks suitable for saw ing Into sizes desired In sandstones there Is great variety in texture and shades of color In granites there is a neverending supply and great variety of shades Marbles from the pure white to time extreme blacks are found with varied shades of color be It serpentine green Tennessee red Vermont gray or any of these shaded mottled or veined The builder may choose between white or black granite or oolite black lime or basaltic stone or yet easier he may select se-lect from among the beautiful sandstones sand-stones He may trim hla Interiors with gems of Jet garnet or ruby his floors and walls with onyx cover his roof with slate or bitumen and never go outside of the State for any of these To the east near Ibis city are variations varia-tions of hard laminated sandstone chiefly red but drifting Into yellows and grays and which are used mostly for foundation work Para limestone is also convenient fat the same purpose Near provo Is the serpentine stone while Bingham Midway Payson and Mllford are distinct varieties of marble Snake creek near Park City has immense im-mense bodies of white and black veined marble of wonderful purity Near Loll on the west side of Utah lake are large beds und fine deposits of Onyx and varlagated marble A fine quarry of marble is being developed de-veloped on Hobble creek near Spring yule There are also onyx beds in the same locality A deposit of very pure white marble is being opened near Frisco especially for one of the beautiful residences now In process of building in this city Near Epralm and Moroni in Sanpetc county are fields of oolite a calcareous stone so pure and frail anti with an aspect suggestlv of fairy land This stone Is of light weight anti is easily sawed planed and chislcd soon after quarrying but becomes hard and firm through exposure to air These qualities make tills stone so popular for fine residences that large quantItIes are shipped to the city The Nebo brown stone is located on the south side of Mount Nebo al an ale vation of about 7000 feet and is the only known deposit of 11 true brownstone brown-stone in the West with the exception of the quarry at Flagstaff Aria In order to make this a commercial article the Sanpcte Valley Railway company lately constructed a spur road five nnd onehalf miles long and ending with n gravity plane oC 5000 feet to aid In handling loaded cars from the quarry to Its tracks During the season Just closed some 10000 tons of this stone was shipped Its destination being to points In Utah Idaho Montana and Oregon SIt S-It was quite extensively used In thin city notably in the front of the new Cooperative Wagon and Machinery building on State street The bluish gray stone known RP Kyuno js extensively used for ornamenting orna-menting and facing buildings because of its ease In working adaptability for sawing and tooling and Its soft pretty tints has made It popular Besides being largely used In this city It Is shipped to quite a number of the adjoining States The laudation of the beauty of our city amid county building are chiefly inspired by Its walls being of Kyune stone S The hard laminated sandstones suitable suit-able for footings foundations and flagging flag-ging and for dimension stone have resulted re-sulted In the opening of large quarries near Park City where it Is rasy to quarry and adaptable to almost any kind of work Near Heber City In Summit county there Is almost inexhaustible inex-haustible beds of similar stone or which flagging of any size or thlcknean can bo taken Now that the railway has reached that point stone from thoso quarries ought to Khut out further fur-ther importation from Colorado Ten miles up Emigration canyon ncarthls oily Is a largo deposit of laminated sandstone standing vertically ana cutting cut-ting through a ridge between two sulehos On one side was taken tae beautiful gray atone to construct the Salisbury residence On time opposite side was found the stone used in the Thomas Weir residence which Is a beautiful yellowish or old gold tint probably as pretty a stone as ly found anvvhere In these quarries are seams of gray yellowish pink and lo the dark redbrown showing In the many seams a great variety of tints Two sawmills were kept busy Jn this city cutting up large blocks lute slabs amid another mill at Provo is crowded wIth irork Certainly Utah is blessed In Us great Qizunllty quality and variety of building build-ing alone |