Show STONES AND QUARRIES People In viewing building operations and admire the work of the architect bestow Just praise upon the contractor who carries out his piano but rarely if ever give a thought to tho quarry owner who contends against great odds in producing the stono used in the structure and if they dovconsider him at all rank him bciiealh tho artisan who fashions end puts In place tho product of the quarry Stone is the natural and logical building build-ing material and thoro Is much to be done to popularize Its use In residence public and business structures and the first movement should be to elevate the tone qt the people by educating them up to the architectural possibilities and rubtlc beauties of this material us compared com-pared with those of an artificial nature The buildings which today challenge the greatest amount of admiration arc all made from stone no matter whether they were constructed yesterday or In generations past V While It is true that there ha been more atone Used In Salt Lake during the present year than for several years past still the percentage of stone used in relation to the amount of building has not materially Increased and the soft stone quarry operators have been forced to seek an outside market for their material in ord6r to make the industry pay The architectural l beguiles and building build-ing possibilities stored away In our mountain fastnesses would cause many a city of less Improtance than Salt Lake to grow sick with envy were the facts more patent Utah is well supplied with building stone of almost every variety va-riety and without f doubt better equipped in this respect than any one of the transMlsslsglppt States At the very threshold of our city as If so designed by a kindly providence we have the first essentials t building operations op-erations In the firstclass foundation stone of Red ButtP This denoslt has been worked to Us full capacity during the present season and stll there haa been n scarcity of this class of stone almost the ynllre year due to primitive methods of extracting the stqno and the lack of equipment for handling handlng large quanlllles ralher than from any Inability of the deposits to respond to the everincreasing demand 0 fact to be deplored and one which has worked a hardship upon many builders this season Next In proximity to the cIty Is the hard buff stone In Emigration canyon but unfortunately this deposit Is so located that It is hard to get at and the cost of production is excessive and Its use has therefore been limited The noticeable instances of Its use nrc In the Weir and Sallbbrmy residences and In the foundation and approaches to the new Woods icsldenccj on Brig pCG ham street Just beyond the divide on the road to Park City at Gogorza there Is a deposit de-posit of ugh red laminated sandstone which has come Into much prominence during the past season In color It Is similar lo the Red Butte but In texture It Is I much softer and unlike the other hard stones of the dlslrfct can be worked under the saws and quarried In dimension sizes For that reason it has displaced Red Butte to agreat ex tent for trimming and has lert 01 trImming purpose re lieved the stress to some extent on the shortage of hard stone The trimmings on the new University buildings and tme L D S college are from this deposit 5 de-posit Just beyond Snyderville are located the old Metropolitan and Mountain Stone quarries which contain fine deposits de-posits of lee and bun laminated stone These properties have been lying idle for some time but are now turning out large quantllles of paving blocks curb ing and crosswalks to be used in the street pavements now under way In Salt Lake and Ogden For producing material of this class there are probably proba-bly no bettor quarries In existence than those of the Mountain Stone The granite deposits in Cottonwood canyon from which the Mormon Tem Plo is built are probably too well known to require extended comment The structural beauty and strength oC the stone Is perhaps not exceeded in any < known granite quarry and it would soon be famous If it would take a bet ter polish There Is still considerable of the product of this quarry used for monumental purposes but probably the most extensive use to which It has been put since the completion of the Temple is in the foundation and floor of Senator Kearnss mansion The great cost of dressing granite will always be 0 draw back to Us use except In the most pro tontlous buildings I Is essentially a millionaires building material Now that the Rio Grande Western railway has been built to Heber City the Provo River valley is destined to become one of the foremost producers of hard stone Here there are large lro deposits of rich red laminated sandstone sand-stone a portion of which Is well suited for flagging purposes I can also he quarried in small dimension smal clmenslo blocks and is gradually finding its way Into the local market t S In Sanpete valloy are located fine deposits de-posits of rich brown sandstone and white oolite The brown stone comes from the property of the V Mt Nebo 1t Brown Stone company which has sup 10 pled the stone for the Deseret News building and the McCune residence It I Is a stone of rich color and great strength suitable for massive struc tures The quany Is well equipped but equippd the deposit lies In such a way that It Is difficult to extract the stone In mar ketable shape and the cost of quarry Ing Is excessive The stone Is close grained and quite hard making the process of dressing slow and expensive Tho oolite Is almost white In cplor close grained and very easily dressed The deposit Is small and much strip ping has to be done to uncover the ledge making the first cost of tho slone high Tho most accessible part of the deposit was used many years ago In the construction of tho Monti temple tem-ple Tho color makes It particularly suitable for buildings of light and graceful appearance The notable instances In-stances of Its use arc In the Keith Kearns and Woods residences In Salt Lake and the Carnegie free library In Ogden The stone of the greatest importance In the Stale today Is without a doubt thp t Kyune grayscone I Is the most widely known and extensively used There are two companies engaged In furnishing this product and both have wellequipped plants The product of I these quarries Is for the greater part shipped out of the State while the local consumption Is by no means small probably aggregating more than all the other soft stones combined The stone Is n delicate gray In color with a faint purplish tone of fine tex lurc easily worked and easl ant capable of withstanding great pressure and rc slstlnpr the action of the elements The deposit covers n large area and the quarrrcs are practically inexhaustible The stone is suitable for use In any kind of L structure from thz trimmings of a modest cottage to the most public building construction I haa been ex Ipnslvely used In the public budngs bulJdlnlS of this State and California arid all of the stone bridges and culverts of the Rio Grande Western railway are made from it In Salt Lake notable instances in-stances of Its use are In the city and county building Catholic cathedral Congregational church KquAsford ho tel McCornlck block Hooper block D F Walker block Commercial block and In the trimmings 0 about throefourths of tho buildings constructed In the last ten years I has also been used extensively ctcn sively In Ogden Provo Lehl and Brig ham City lho new buildings at the Agricultural college at Logan are now being trimmed with It in Montana It has been used In the Clark residence lcnce the Helena high school aid the Slate School of Mines California Is the longest consumer of Kyunc stone at present and the demand there la I cveiS Increasing I has been used In lha construction of the United Stales mint the Erwin and Sprcckles residences and several large business buildings at San Francisco The poslofllccn at Stockton and Oakland school buildings ut Berkeley and Palo Alto and In all < al these buildings Its use has been no successful suc-cessful and attracted so much atten ton that the demand In 1 California alone has Increased to such proportions that the quarry companies will have to work to a strained capacity to fill tho orders for next season I MARBLE There are several fine deposits In Utah and a few attempts have been made to open up the ledges and creato a demand for the product but so far the efforts have met with little success not from any defects in the quality or color of the marble but from small smal local demands and excessive freight freigt charges to outside markcls The Waqalch Marble company owns a marble property l the headlgbf thohadlt Snake creek near Heber City No systematic tematic development han yet been made but In several places alpng tho outcrop of the ledge cuts have been made showing the character of tho rock A few feet below the surface outcrop the stone Is found to be quite solid and free from blemishes Tho marble Is pure white and susceptible of a fair polish and the Indications aro that It can be produced In any quantity quan-tity whenever the econdltlons warrant 0xtenslvo development In 1E93 tho Hobblo Creek Marble company was organized in Salt Lako to develop an 840acre marble property in Hobble Creek canyon eight miles from Spring rule Here the stone occurs In extensive exten-sive welldefined ledges and tho supply sup-ply is practically Inexhaustible I Is chocolate brown In color and comparatively compara-tively free from such ingredients a would Interfere with Its use for ornamental orna-mental purposes for which it Is well adapted V ONYX While there are deposits of onyx iri Various portions of the State probably prob-ably the best known and most extensively exten-sively developed are those near Pelican Point on the west side of Utah lake There are two properties In operation In a small way Ellas Morris Sons are working one group under an option op-tion and have recently shipped two carloads to the Eastern market and have orders for about that much more to go to Milwaukee From the present outlook they will commence more extended ex-tended operations In the early spring Another rcroup Is owned by the Chicago Chi-cago and Utah Onyx company a corporation I corpo-ration thai Is the outcome of the old Mexican Onyx company of Ulan that I I furdnlshed the walnscoiing for the city j and county building This company has opened un Its ledge to a depth of slxtylhe feet on the dip and now have a face of onyx ninety foot long ex pospd There ate three cllstlncl layers or Onyx that tin be mined in desirable dimensions It Is the intention of the company lo commence operations In the spring and install a firstclass plant consisting of hoists and buildings build-ings a tramway three miles long to the lake shore and steam scows lo transport the stone across the lake loa lo-a connection with the railroad at or near Geneva V SLATE Of the several slate deposits In the Stale the one that has been most extensively ex-tensively developed Is located In Provo East canyon Several years ago Ellas Morris and George M Cannon formed a partnership and undertook to open up the deposits with the view of furnishing fur-nishing the slate for ihe roof of the city and county building but for some reason they were unable to secure the contracts and llllgatlon over the tithe to the property having arisen the en lerprlso finally fell through after Iho promoters had spent considerable money and extracted several thousand feet of roofingslate Experts who have examined this deposit and the product from It have pronounced It equal In every respect to the best slate produced In the land 1 |