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Show A MARBLE QUARRY John Montrose Visits the Mountains Again And is Certain a Quarry Can be Developed. John Montrose, in talking of his re-cent re-cent visit to his mountain of marble near the head or Logan can on, says that his piospectlng Increased his faith in the possibilities there. While searching around in tho locality whero ho believed white marble existed, but which he had not heretofore examined closely, ho found what he expected. He brought down with him somo excellent ex-cellent samples of white marble which polish nicely and show up to splendid advantage. Owing to the. snow and dllllculty In tramping over the mountains moun-tains at this season of tho year ho did not Investigate far enough to llnd out whether there Is any great quantity of this, ile dug around for a couple of davs In the vielnltyof his black mar-blc.aud mar-blc.aud Is conlldcnt that when he removes re-moves ten or twelve feet of dirt and rock on top of ledges tho sides of which aie exposed, he will llnd things as he would have them. In one place he did uncover a goodly portion of the" strata and found It as level as a floor and In layers from six inches to two feet thick. These layers or ledges aro exposed on the side to it depth of fiom 200 to 400 feet, so that quantity can not longer be a question. It Ih a known fact that In nimble and stone quariics It Is found that the atmospheric atmo-spheric conditions will affect the product pro-duct even to the depth of llility feet. All the material that has yet been experimented ex-perimented with as to polish and anal) sis has necessarily been of tho surface kind, yet has shown up magnificently. mag-nificently. Tho only objection that Is brought by local workers in marble Is the possibility of the marble containing contain-ing invisible seams, being checked. Marble of this kind Isuumaikelablc of course. The samples polished so far have been remarkably free from this checking and yet this Is surface marble. mar-ble. Mr. Montrose Insists that when It Is possible to get out samples at a depth beyond the possibility of weather weath-er penetration It will be found to be llawless. Once that Is demonstrated the only proposition standing In the way of the possibility of a successful quarry Is removed. It Is to be sincerely sincere-ly hoped that this will be demonstrated demonstrat-ed at an early date, for as we have said before, with tho quantity of marble mar-ble that Is undoubtedly there, the quality that analysis demonstrates, the freedom from checking or Invisible seams, and this western country as a market, such a quairy can not but prove to Cache Valley what the Silver King and other big mines have proved to the State. A little later Mr. Montrose Mont-rose will go up to the mountains again and with Ui 111 and powder will open up that mountain sufficiently to get blocks of marble of the proper size for a perfect demonstration. |