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Show Galway Granite Quarry. A company has been formed to acquire ac-quire and develop the Shantallow granite gran-ite quarry and marble works at Galway. Gal-way. It is .said that these quarries have an inexhaustible supply of red granite of rich color and fine quality, capable of taking a brilliant polish and suitable for all inside and outside work. The quarries also yield large blocks for engineering works, stone for making sets, macadam and concrete slabs, and are convenient to the railway and the Galway docks, with which it is proposed pro-posed to connect them by means of a tramway, for which leave has been secured. se-cured. The company will also acquire Miller's marble and granite works, j which during many years have been ! successfully operated, polishing Galway Gal-way granites, a black marble. It is proposed to equip these works with modern machinery, and as the demand for ornamental polished work is far in advance of the supply at present the Galway works should do a very profitable profit-able business. |