Show PECULIAR LAVA ROCK QUARRIED WITH AX YET IMPERVIOUS TO HEAT AND ELEMENTS A largo large C quary of a now DOW kind kina of building rod rock is being opened up on tho thc river in Idaho IdaLo about three miles from tho the town of oC renan Menan by T. T G G. G Wil Wilson Vilson on formerly well veli known in m m mining min n. n in ing circles in Salt Lako Lake City and ana in Park City Cit Mr lr Wilson Wison left hero about fifteen years a ago o and went to Idaho where ho became interested in tho the rv n which if indications point to anything anything any any- thin thing will become a sensation in in the tho building stone market Tho The new rock is ig a peculiar sort of oi lava la which has flown from the tho Twin Buttes on the Snake river about twenty miles north of Idaho Falls The lava formation is not like other formations of that kind but consists of a 3 peculiar light hard hanl porous stone It lies m tu strata varying in thickness from two to five fi feet and the only tool necessary in quarrying it is a broad ax Recently Mr Ir Wilson bought a partner part ner ncr out 0 of half of the location of tho rock and then started the work vork of I opening it up The fhe quarry extends nearly nearly near near- ly a holt mile milo in width and nearly a amile amile amile mile in length and lies even cn at nt all nU points Tho The work at present i 1 is being boins II done dODO by Mr r. r Wilson on the bank of the tho Snake e river near tho road toad loa loading nr to the Johnson ranch and a good showing is bein being mad made Tho stone breaks at ri right ht an angles les and when hen taken from tho the quarry is JS read ready for use in building purposes Impervious to Heat Tho The peculiar substance is a nonconductor nonconductor non con ductor of heat A t. t picco piece three inches thick can ean bo 10 placed upon a white hot bot blazo blaze and it will require nearly a half I hour for the upper surface to get et Lot hot enough to burn the band hand In color it is black and iu in weight itis it itis itis is Yer very light licht Water is absorbed by bv it but no DO di dissolving Jakes akes place Pieces of the rock have hae stood in in the Snake river river for years with little or no erosion Other tests have havo been given cn it to the tho satisfaction of many persons persona who havo have interested Det Between een tho the quarry and the tho town of Menan renan a n number of houses have been built of the rock and they are aro very I attractive in appearance Ono One of the I houses bouses built hun t of ot the stone stono has hae stood for eleven cleven years and examination shows it to be bo practically as good as when hen it it was first constructed Amon Among other buildings made of the rock are uro the tho renan Menan flour mills Recently Recently Re Re- c the main maia main building of tho the mill caught lire fire and burned down When the firo fire ha hail had devastated de tho whole inside of tho the building tho the walls walla stood unharmed The place was rebuilt by placing in iu new floors and roof and using the old walls Will Extend Operations At t present ent Mr Wil Wilson oc is sending out considerable rock for tho the building of or hom houses cs about but tho the methods of 01 getting it out aro arc slow elow and primitive Tho The rock is quarried with broad axes and sent across tho the Snake r river or on wa wagons ou on a current propelled ferry crr The rho Oregon Oregon Ore Oro gon Jon Short Line Linc railway is is within two and a half miles mile of th the quarry am and aud when the work is advanced further Mr lr Wilson thinks he will have havo no trouble in in getting an extension of ot tho the line Up to date none nono of the rock has been shipped out of tho the immediate vicinity of the quarry and in fact no DO mention of it has been made outside of the district It is now the tho ambition of Mr r. r Wilson WilBon to get ct outsiders interested and to put tho the rock on the tho market all over tho country |