Identifier: cassiersmagaz401911newy (find matches)
Title: Cassier's magazine
Year: 1891 (1890s)
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Subjects: Engineering
Publisher: New York Cassier Magazine Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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m includes Sulli-van steam cutters, operated by porta-ble steam engines. The company hastwo mills, each containing twelve gangs of saws, and a planer depart-ment, where is planed curbing, readyto be set in the street, and mouldings,such as cornice work, etc., for build-ings. The mill contains nine planersand two lathes for turning columnsand balusters. A tramway a quarterof a mile in length, running the en-tire length of the plant, is operatedby seven electric traveling cranes.This company produces stone forbuilding purposes, curbing, flaggingand grindstones, and its buildingstone has been used in many publicbuildings throughout the UnitedStates and Canada. Indiana is an important source ofvaluable stone for building and otherpurposes. What is known as theBedford is used very extensively onaccount of its quality. The extent ofone companys operations and thespecial machines employed for cut-ting the stone and removing theblocks are shown in the accompany- METHODS OF STONE QUARRYING 13;
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HOISTING BLOCKS OF MARBLE FROM THE TATE QUARRY, SHOWING DEPTH OF MARBLE ing illustration that gives an idea ofthe dimensions of this quarry. Thisplant is located at Bedford, Ind., andis owned by the Indiana QuarryCompany. Not only limestone, but brownstoneand ashlar are found in large bedsof a very high quality in Pennsyl-vania. A group of extensive quar-ries and mills for converting the stone into commercial forms is lo-cated at West Grove, Pa., and oper-ated by the Pennsylvania Marble andGranite Company. The quarries areof very large size and the plant isone of the most extensive in theState. The deposits of the South AtlanticStates contain a very large quantityof building and ornamental stone, as i3» CASSEERS MAGAZINE

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