Quarries in Missouri & Quarry Links, Photographs, and Articles
St. Louis – Fabrick thru Hamburg

• St. Louis City, Missouri - Fabrick, Philip, and Marshall Limestone Quarry (Limestone) (from “The Clay, Stone, Lime and Sand Industries of St. Louis City and County,” by G. E. Ladd, Assistant Geologist, in Geological Survey of Missouri, Bulletin No. 3, Supplement, Missouri, December 1890.)

  Location.

  “Fabrick, Philip, and Marshall (53): - This firm has a quarry situated about one-fourth of a mile west of the Doering and Munsen quarries, and about three hundred yards from the Carondelet Branch railway. This stone quarried belongs to the St. Louis Limestone.

  “The following section, in descending series, was obtained here: -

  Section.

  1. Soil and residuary clay - 6 feet.
  2. Limestone, partially decomposed - 5 feet.
  3. Limestone, dark gray, fine grained - 1 foot, 6 inches.
  4. Limestone, gray to brown, coarse grained, soft - 3 feet.
  5. Limestone, dark gray, coarse grained - 1 foot, 10 inches.
  6. Limestone, gray to brown, vary grained - 1 foot, 8 inches.
  7. Limestone, dark gray, lithographic, in three layers - 2 feet, 6 inches.
  8. Limestone, buff, shaly and soft - 1 foot, 8 inches.
  9. Limestone, dark drab, lithographic - 1 foot, 9 inches.
  10. Limestone, very dark drab, fine grained, crystalline, calcite veins, two layers separated by a thin bed of brown shale - 2 feet, 10 inches.
  11. Limestone, dark gray, lithographic, in three layers - 2 feet, 4 inches.
  12. Limestone and shale, in three alternating layers - 3-6 inches.
  13. Limestone, dark gray to lavender, fine grained - 1 foot, 2 inches.

  Total thickness of rock - 25 feet, 8 inches.”

• St. Louis, Missouri - the Fehlig Construction Company’s Limestone Quarry (Limestone) (The following information is from The Quarrying Industry of Missouri, by E. R. Buckley, Director and State Geologist, and H. A. Buehler, Missouri Bureau of Geology and Mines Vol. II, 2nd Series, 1904.)

  “This quarry is located near the intersection of Hickory street and Car lane. The same strata are quarried as at the Grand avenue quarry of Eyerman Bros. The quarry consists of a deep rectangular pit, having perpendicular walls. The company recently erected a large crushing plant and have materially increased their output.

  “Mr. Frank Fehlig is president and treasurer of the company and Mr. T. L. Fehlig is secretary. the offices are located at the corner of Theresa avenue and Hickory street.”

• St. Louis, Missouri - the Fink Limestone Quarry (Limestone) (The following information is from The Quarrying Industry of Missouri, by E. R. Buckley, Director and State Geologist, and H. A. Buehler, Missouri Bureau of Geology and Mines Vol. II, 2nd Series, 1904.)

  “The quarry owned and operated by Mr. George Fink is located west of the Hanley road and north of Edon post office. When visited it had not been in operation for some time and was partly filled with water. The quarry has a stripping from ten to twenty feet of loess. The rock is a very fine grained, fossiliferous, thinly bedded limestone.”

• St. Louis, Missouri - the Fitze Marble and Tile Co., Inc. (from Stone Magazine, September 1926, Vol. XLVII, No. 9, pp. 556.)

  “The Fitze Marble & Tile Co., Inc., announce the removal of their plant to 1901 North Broadway, St. Louis, Mo., formerly occupied by the Pickel Marble and Granite Co. The Fitze Company will maintain offices at the plant.”

  • St. Louis, Missouri - the Fitze Marble and Tile Company(from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, October 1927, Vol. 5, No. 6, pp. 65. The following information was also published in the following issue of Throvgh The Ages Magazine: April 1927, Vol. 4, No. 12, pp. 67)

    The Fitze Marble and Tile Company, St. Louis, Mo., is listed in the “List of Quarries and Marble Manufacturers represented in the membership of the National Association of Marble Dealers.” A. C. Fitze is listed as the company representative.

• St. Louis, Missouri - the Fletcher & Barrett Construction Co. Quarry (listed in The Mine, Quarry and Metallurgical Record of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, The Mine and Quarry News Bureau, Chicago, Ill., 1897)
• St. Louis, Missouri - John H. Fong’s Quarry (listed in The Mine, Quarry and Metallurgical Record of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, The Mine and Quarry News Bureau, Chicago, Ill., 1897)
• St. Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri – the Forrester Brothers Stone Company (from Stone: An Illustrated Magazine, June 1902, Vol. XXIV, No. 6, pp. 568)

  “Forrester Brothers Stone Company, of Kansas City, Mo., has been incorporated with a capital stock of $5,000 all paid in. The incorporators are C. B., John D., and James M. Forrester.”

• St. Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri – the Forsyth & Ingram (Branch Office) (circa 1899) (Granite) (Excerpt from Gazetteer of Washington County, Vermont, 1783-1889, Part First, compiled and published by Hamilton Child, Edited by William Adams, Syracuse, N.Y.: The Syracuse Journal Co., Printers and Binders, April 1899, pp. 145. (This book is available on Google Book Search – Full View Books for reading or downloading to your computer in PDF format.)

  “Forsyth & Ingram’s granite works are located off Granite street, west of the railroad. The members of the firm, S. H. Forsyth and James Ingram, are granite cutters of twenty years’ experience. They engaged in business in Barre in 1882, and now occupy the shops formerly occupied by E. L. Smith & Co. They have every desirable facility for successfully carrying on their large business, including a derrick operated by steam. They quarry, manufacture, and deal in monumental, fine carved, and statuary work in light and dark Barre granite. The firm has established a branch agency at 1,313 Washington avenue, St. Louis, Mo. They employ forty men.”

• St. Louis City, Missouri - Jacob Friederichs Limestone Quarry located at the intersection of Minnesota & Maeder Street (Limestone) (from “The Clay, Stone, Lime and Sand Industries of St. Louis City and County,” by G. E. Ladd, Assistant Geologist, in Geological Survey of Missouri, Bulletin No. 3, Supplement, Missouri, December 1890.)

  Location and product.

  “Friederichs, Jacob (I, 20): - Mr. Friederichs has a quarry situated at the intersection of Minnesota avenue and Maeder street, which was opened about seven years ago. The quarry is rectangular in shape, is about sixty feet long by fifty feet wide, and is drained by a subterranean channel.

  Section.

  “The following section, in descending series, was obtained here: -

  1. Soil and Loess - 8-16 feet.
  2. Gravel and residuary clay - 16 feet.
  3. Limestone, partially decomposed - 2-6 feet.
  4. Limestone, light gray, soft - 3 feet.
  5. Limestone, light gray, several layers interstratified with chert - 4 feet, 4 inches.
  6. Limestone, light gray, in thin layers, calcite veins - 7 feet.
  7. Limestone, very light gray, chert concretions and layers near the top - 1 foot, 3 inches.
  8. Limestone, brownish, siliceous, numerous chert concretions and layers near the top and bottom - 5 feet.
  9. Limestone, gray, fossiliferous, coarse grained, in two layers - 3 feet, 8 inches.
  10. Limestone, gray, fossiliferous, calcite veins - 1 foot.
  11. Limestone, light gray, coarse grained, several layers - 6 feet.
  12. Limestone, light gray, fine grained, soft, two layers - 3 feet.

  Total thickness of rock - 36 feet, 9 inches.”

  St. Louis, Missouri - the Friedrick Limestone Quarry (Limestone) (The following information is from The Quarrying Industry of Missouri, by E. R. Buckley, Director and State Geologist, and H. A. Buehler, Missouri Bureau of Geology and Mines Vol. II, 2nd Series, 1904.)

  “This quarry, which is owned and operated by Jacob Friedrick, is located at the junction of Minnesota avenue and Maeder street. It covers an area bout 325 x 135 feet. The upper thirty feet consists of thinly bedded white limestone, which is used by the mills in St. Louis for whiting. When ground, the stone from these beds is very white. It brings $1.25 per ton delivered at the mills. From one of the lower ledges, stone is quarried for sewer intakes. The general section of this quarry is the same as that of the Kempf and Hoge quarry, located on adjacent property.

  “The major joints strike N. 10° E. Apparently they do not extend to any great depth. The beds have an apparent gentle dip to the northwest.

  “The quarry is equipped with a hoist and derrick. Six men and three teams are worked.”

• St. Louis, Missouri - William J. Frein’s Quarry (listed in The Mine, Quarry and Metallurgical Record of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, The Mine and Quarry News Bureau, Chicago, Ill., 1897)
• St. Louis City, Missouri - Fruin Bambrick & Co. - First Quarry located at the junction of Cabanne Avenue & Papin Street (Limestone) (from “The Clay, Stone, Lime and Sand Industries of St. Louis City and County,” by G. E. Ladd, Assistant Geologist, in Geological Survey of Missouri, Bulletin No. 3, Supplement, Missouri, December 1890.)

  Location.

  “Bambrick-Bates Construction Co., First Quarry (N, 9-2): -

  “This quarry is situated on Madison stret (sic), between Maine and second streets. It was opened in 1867, and has, since, been worked continuously. It is three hundred feet long, one hundred and twenty feet wide, and eighty feet deep. Stone for all common purposes is quarried.”

  Location and product.

  “Fruin, Bambrick & Co., First Quarry (H, 12): - This quarry is situated at the junction of Cabanne avenue and Papin street. There are two shallow openings, one on each side of the Missouri Pacific railway. Work was begun here about two years ago (circa 1898), and has consisted mainly of the removal of stone for the production of macadam.”

  • St. Louis City, Missouri - Fruin Bambrick & Co. - Second Quarry located at Clifton Heights (Limestone) (from “The Clay, Stone, Lime and Sand Industries of St. Louis City and County,” by G. E. Ladd, Assistant Geologist, in Geological Survey of Missouri, Bulletin No. 3, Supplement, Missouri, December 1890.)

    Location.

    “Fruin, Bambrick & Co., Second Quarry (C, 14): - This quarry is situated on the ‘Frisco’ railway at Clifton Heights. The product consists mostly of macadam and building stone. Some paving is also produced.

    “The following section, in descending series, was obtained here: -

    Section.

    “The following section, in descending series, was obtained here: -

    1. Loess - 30 feet.
    2. Limestone, much broken and more or less decomposed - 10 feet, 4 inches.
    3. Limestone, gray, fine grained, compact, in three ten inch layers - 2 feet, 6 inches.
    4. Limestone, gray, full of dark colored flinty concretions - 6 inches.
    5. Limestone, gray, soft, occasional chert concretions - 10 inches.
    6. Limestone (covered with debris) - 2 feet.
    7. Limestone, light gray, compact, in two layers each thirty inches thick - 5 feet.

    Total thickness of rock - 21 feet, 2 inches.”

  • St. Louis City, Missouri - Fruin Bambrick & Co. - Third Quarry located at Grand & Chouteau Avenues (Limestone) (from “The Clay, Stone, Lime and Sand Industries of St. Louis City and County,” by G. E. Ladd, Assistant Geologist, in Geological Survey of Missouri, Bulletin No. 3, Supplement, Missouri, December 1890.)

    Location:

    “Fruin, Bambrick & Co., Third Quarry (I, 13): - This quarry is situated on the south-east corner of Grand and Chouteau avenues. Work was begun by the present operators in may 1890, with the intention of producing paving stone, macadam and rubble. But little work has been done as yet.

    “The following section, in descending series, was obtained here: -

    Section.

    1. Loess - 3 feet.
    2. Limestone, weathered in thin layers - 20 feet.
    3. Limestone, yellow, soft and shaly - 2 inches.
    4. Clay, yellow, soft, laminated - 6 inches.
    5. Clay carrying flinty nodules - 4 inches.
    6. Shale, green, soft - 6 inches.
    7. Limestone, bluish gray, very fined grained, compact, in two layers, respectively three feet and a foot and a half thick - 4 feet, 6 inches.
    8. Limestone, gray, in six to ten inch layers - 4 feet.
    9. Limestone, gray, rather coarse grained, in two eighteen inch layers - 3 feet.
    10. Limestone, gray, hard, compact - 5 feet.

    Total thickness of rock - 38 feet, 0 inches.”

  • St. Louis City, Missouri - Fruin Bambrick & Co. - Fourth Quarry located near Cabanne & Chouteau Avenues (Limestone) (from “The Clay, Stone, Lime and Sand Industries of St. Louis City and County,” by G. E. Ladd, Assistant Geologist, in Geological Survey of Missouri, Bulletin No. 3, Supplement, Missouri, December 1890.)

    Location and product.

    “Fruin, Bambrick & Co., Fourth Quarry (H, 12): - This quarry is situated near the junction of Cabanne and Chouteau avenues. The product consists of macadam, paving, building stone and rubble. The quarry is about thirty-five feet deep.”

• St. Louis, Missouri - the Fruin Bambrick Construction Company’s Limestone Quarries (Limestone) (The following information is from The Quarrying Industry of Missouri, by E. R. Buckley, Director and State Geologist, and H. A. Buehler, Missouri Bureau of Geology and Mines Vol. II, 2nd Series, 1904.)

  “The quarries owned and operated by this company are among the largest in the St. Louis district. This company does an extensive general and railroad contracting business and has offices in the Chemical building. William H. Swift, who is the principal owner, has been president of the company since its organization. This company owns and operates three quarries, all of which are located near Chouteau and Spring avenues, west of Grand avenue. The largest of these quarries is located at the northeast corner of Chouteau and Grand avenues and covers nearly a block of ground. The second quarry, which is west of Spring avenue and near the north end of the large quarry, is considerably smaller. The third quarry, which is on the south side of Chouteau avenue and east of the main quarry, contains some of the best stone on the property. This quarry is not in operation.

  “The first quarry, which has been operated for twelve years, covers an area of six acres. The beds dip in all directions from the center, although the east and south dips are the most pronounced. The following is a section from top to bottom:

  6-18 in. - Dark gray, medium grained limestone.

  18 in. - Crystalline, white limestone. Dresses nicely and is a very good stone.

  6 ft. - Argillaceous, yellow limestone. Portions of this ledge contain workable stone.

  18 in. - Bluish gray limestone. Beds are separated by thin layer of shale. Used for furnace flux.

  18 in. - Bluish gray limestone. Beds are separated by thin layer of shale. Used for furnace flux.

  7 ft. - Limestone known as the ‘nigger head’ ledge. Very difficult to work.

  10 in. - Fine grained limestone.

  3 ft. - Somewhat siliceous, white limestone.

  16 ft. - Consists of three ledges of rather fine grained, bluish gray limestone.

  3 ft. - Flinty, bluish gray limestone, in thin layers.

  “In general, the stone is rather soft. It is used for buildings, concrete and macadam. The equipment consists of two crushing plants, operating No. 3 and No. 4 Gates crushers, derrick, steam hoists and steam drills. The crushed stone is stored in bins. The quarry west of Spring avenue is operated most extensively, the stone being crushed at the larger quarry. The following sizes are made:

  (1) Fine screenings, consisting of particles about the size of wheat grains. Is used in concrete for cellars and sidewalks.

  (2) Screenings, consisting of particles about the size of shelled corn. Used for the bed of granitoid sidewalks.

  (3) Macadam (A) 1 inch used in light concrete work. (B) 1 ½ inch used in heavy concrete work. (C) 2 ½ inch used in macadam.

  “‘Flour,’ which is very finely pulverized limestone is also made at this quarry. It is used as a wall finish and in asphalt work. The fine screenings are used for manufacturing this product. They are dried and ground in a ball mill four feet in diameter and eighteen feet long. This mill consists of a cylinder, lined with very hard rock and containing a quantity of round flint pebbles. The abrading action of the flint pebbles on the screenings, as the cylinder is revolved, reduces the screenings to an impalpable powder, which is sacked and sold as it comes from the cylinder.

  “This quarry is operated about ten months in the year and employs about one hundred men. The output is about ninety loads of macadam and ten loads of building stone per day.”

• St. Louis, Missouri - the Geisel Construction Company’s Limestone Quarry (Limestone) (The following information is from The Quarrying Industry of Missouri, by E. R. Buckley, Director and State Geologist, and H. A. Buehler, Missouri Bureau of Geology and Mines Vol. II, 2nd Series, 1904.)

  “This quarry, which is located just north of the Hoffman quarry, described on a following page, was opened in 1891 and operated until 1900. It extends along the bluff 150 feet. The same beds are worked as at the Hoffman quarry, and also the following which occur underneath:

  6 ft. - Heavy bed of yellowish limestone.

  10 ft. - Gray limestone.

  8 ft. - Gray, fine grained limestone, in beds from four to ten inches in thickness.

  “The beds have an apparent dip of 20° to the west. The quarry is not being operated at present.”

• St. Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri - the George Oldham & Son Company (from Stone Magazine, August 1922, Vol. XLIII, No 8, pp. 366)

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• St. Louis, Missouri - the Giudicy Marble, Terrazzo and Tile Company (from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, October 1927, Vol. 5, No. 6, pp. 65. The information below was also published in the following issue of Throvgh The Ages Magazine: April 1927, Vol. 4, No. 12, pp. 67.)

  The Giudicy Marble, Terrazzo and Tile Company, St. Louis, Mo., is listed in the “List of Quarries and Marble Manufacturers represented in the membership of the National Association of Marble Dealers.” William Henry Anfield is listed as the company representative.

  • St. Louis, Missouri - the Giudicy Marble, Terrazzo and Tile Company (from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, September 1928, Vol. 6, No. 5, pp. 67)

    The Giudicy Marble, Terrazzo and Tile Company is listed in the “List of Quarries and Marble Manufacturers Represented in the Membership of the National Association of Marble Dealers” section of this issue. William Henry Anfield is listed as their representative.

  • St. Louis, Missouri - the Giudicy Marble Terrazzo & Tile Company (from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, January 1932, Vol. 9, No. 9, pp. 50.)

    Miniature of a Banking Room in marble, one of eight models now on display in the Building Industries Exhibit Bureau, St. Louis.

    In a spirit of co-operation for the promotion of Marble this page has been subscribed for by the members of the St. Louis Marble Manufacturers Credit Association who are also members of the National Association of Marble Dealers, and whose names are listed below:

    In keeping with the very desirable policy of this magazine it is our intention to show from time to time installations of marble work by various members.

• St. Louis City, Missouri - Glendale Quarry Co. Limestone Quarry located between Kirkwood & Webster (Limestone) (from “The Clay, Stone, Lime and Sand Industries of St. Louis City and County,” by G. E. Ladd, Assistant Geologist, in Geological Survey of Missouri, Bulletin No. 3, Supplement, Missouri, December 1890.)

  Location and product.

  “Glendale Quarry Co. (55): - This company has a quarry on the Carondelet Branch railway about half way between Kirkwood and Webster, in the St. Louis Limestone. It was opened in 1889. The product consists mostly of dimension and building stone. The quarry has a workable face of about three hundred feet and operates two channeling machines.

  “The following section, in descending series, was obtained here: -

  Section.

  1. Stripping, clay and decomposing limestone - 6 feet.
  2. Limestone, yellow to lavender, lithographic, concretions in places (has been used by lithographers) - 2 feet, 6 inches.
  3. Limestone, dark gray, soft - 1 foot, 6 inches.
  4. Limestone, almost white, soft, weathers into two layers -2 feet, 10 inches.
  5. Limestone, dark gray, coarse grained, crystalline - 2 feet.
  6. Limestone, dark gray, fine grained, in two layers - 2 feet, 2 inches.
  7. Limestone, dark gray, fine grained, chert concretions occasionally - 4 feet.
  8. Limestone, mottled gray to brown, coarse grained, crystalline - 1 foot.
  9. Limestone, brownish gray, soft, in two layers of equal thickness - 4 feet.
  10. Limestone, gray, coarse grained - 2 feet.

  Total thickness of rock - 22 feet, 0 inches.”

• St. Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri - the William Gorman Quarry (Limestone) (from Report on The Building Stones of The United States, and Statistics of the Quarry Industry for 1880, by George W. Hawes, Curator of the Department of Mineralogy and Lithology at the National Museum, and by F. W. Sperr and Thomas C. Kelly, Joint production of the Census Office and the National Museum, 1883)

  The following information was taken from the table entitled, “Table IV. Tables indicating the Amount and Kinds of Rock in the Different States”: The William Gorman Quarry, City of St. Louis, Saint Louis County, Limestone, color: drab; quarry opened in 1872.

• St. Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri - the Gottleib Eyermann Quarry (Limestone) (from Report on The Building Stones of The United States, and Statistics of the Quarry Industry for 1880, by George W. Hawes, Curator of the Department of Mineralogy and Lithology at the National Museum, and by F. W. Sperr and Thomas C. Kelly, Joint production of the Census Office and the National Museum, 1883)

  The following information was taken from the table entitled, “Table IV. Tables indicating the Amount and Kinds of Rock in the Different States”: The Gottleib Eyermann Quarry, City of St. Louis, Saint Louis County, Limestone/Dolomite, color: drab; quarry opened in 1850.

  “Among the most valuable of these quarries as regards the quality of the material are three at Cote Brilliant, about 2 ½ miles from the city of Saint Louis. Its development is only retarded by its being at a greater distance from the market than many of the other quarries.

  “A section at one of these quarries shows 25 feet of loose material; 15 feet of gray limestone, in layers about 3 inches in thickness; 4 feet of limestone, in layers of variable thickness; 2 feet of close-grained gray limestone; five 3-inch layers of gray limestone; one 22-inch layer of gray limestone; and 15 feet of limestone below the water level.

  “The best layers are pure limestone, susceptible of being quite highly polished, very strong and durable, and quite well adapted for architectural purposes.

  “The formation in the quarry of Mr. Gottlieb Eyerman probably belongs to the upper portion of the Saint Louis group, though it may belong to the next higher, the Chester group.”

• St. Louis, Missouri - the Grafton Dolomite Stone Co. Quarry (listed in The Mine, Quarry and Metallurgical Record of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, The Mine and Quarry News Bureau, Chicago, Ill., 1897)
• St. Louis, Missouri - the Grafton Quarry Co. Office (from Stone: An Illustrated Magazine, September 1892, Vol. V., No. IV. The same listing was found in the following issues of this magazine: Stone: An Illustrated Magazine, November 1892, Vol. V., No. VI, pp. xxx.)

  Directory of Stone, Marble and Granite Producers:

  Sandstone: “Grafton Quarry Co., Grafton, Ill., and St. Louis, Mo. ”

  St. Louis, Missouri - the Grafton Quarry Co. Quarry (listed in The Mine, Quarry and Metallurgical Record of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, The Mine and Quarry News Bureau, Chicago, Ill., 1897)

• St. Louis City, Missouri - Louis Grand Limestone Quarry located near Meramec Street (Limestone) (from “The Clay, Stone, Lime and Sand Industries of St. Louis City and County,” by G. E. Ladd, Assistant Geologist, in Geological Survey of Missouri, Bulletin No. 3, Supplement, Missouri, December 1890.)

  Location and product.

  “Grand, Louis (K, 19) - Mr. Grand has a large quarry which is situated west of the Iron Mountain and Southern railway track, near Meramec street. The quarry is two hundred feet long and sixty feet deep. The product consists of macadam, building stone and paving. The quarry is in the same bluff as the Work House* quarry and the sections at the two quarries are very similar.”

• St. Louis, Missouri - the Granite Mountain Co. Quarry (listed in The Mine, Quarry and Metallurgical Record of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, The Mine and Quarry News Bureau, Chicago, Ill., 1897)
• St. Louis, Missouri - the Grant Quarry Co. Quarry (listed in The Mine, Quarry and Metallurgical Record of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, The Mine and Quarry News Bureau, Chicago, Ill., 1897)
  • St. Louis, Missouri - the Grant Quarry Company (from Stone Magazine, June 1898, Vol. XVII, No. 1, pp. 220)

    “St. Louis, Mo. - A chattel deed of trust given by the Grant Quarry Company was placed on record June 8. The deed covers the real and personal property of the company wherever situated, and secures a claim of the German-American Bank of $9,000, and forty-five other creditors whose claims aggregate, $9,884.96.”

• St. Louis, Missouri – the Gruendler Crusher & Pulverizer Company (historical company records)

  Some historical company records for the Gruendler Crusher and Pulverizer Company are listed in the “Gruendler Crusher & Pulverizer Company, 1929-1937” section of the Historical Construction Equipment Association web site. The description of the records from the web site are below:

  “Gruendler Crusher & Pulverizer Company was founded in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1885 by William Friedrich Gruendler. His son, William P. Gruendler, took over after World War I; he was succeeded by William S. Gruendler, and upon his passing in 1981 William P. Gruendler and William P. Gruendler II took the helm (information submitted by the Gruendler family). As of 2009, it was owned by Terex Corporation....”

• St. Louis, Missouri – Gruendler Patent Crusher & Pulverizer Co. (The following information is an advertisement in Pit and Quarry: Sand – Gravel – Stone, magazine, December 1921, pp. 105)

Gruendler Patent Crusher & Pulverizer Co., 905 N. Main St., St. Louis, Mo.

America’s Most Famous Crusher and Pulverizer

For crushing and pulverizing Limestone, Lime, Gypsum, Shale, etc.; excellent for road work. Write for Bulletin.

• St. Louis, Missouri - the Guidicy Marble, Terrazzo and Tile Company (from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, January 1932, Vol. 9, No. 9, pp. 67.)

  The Guidicy Marble, Terrazzo and Tile Company, St. Louis, Mo., is listed in the “List of Quarries and Marble Manufacturers represented in the membership of the National Association of Marble Dealers.” William Henry Anfield is listed as the company representative.

• St. Louis, Missouri - H. Marquardt’s Quarry (listed in The Mine, Quarry and Metallurgical Record of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, The Mine and Quarry News Bureau, Chicago, Ill., 1897)
  • St. Louis, Missouri – the H. Marquardt Marble and Granite Company (from Stone: An Illustrated Magazine, January 1897, Vol. XIV, No. 2, pp. 214)

    “St. Louis, Mo. – The H. Marquardt Marble and Granite Company has incorporated. The capital stock is $10,000, of which Henry Marquardt holds 362 shares, Henry O. Marquardt, Jr., 36 shares, and Edward H. Rottman and August H. French one share each.”

  • St. Louis, Missouri – the H. Marquardt Marble and Granite Company (from Stone: An Illustrated Magazine, February 1897, Vol. XIV, No. 3, pp. 316)

    “St. Louis, Mo. – H. Marquardt Marble and Granite Company has been incorporated by Henry Marquardt, Sr., E. H. Rottman, A. H. Frereck and others. Capital Stock, $10,000.”

• St. Louis, Missouri - the Haller Bros. Limestone Quarry (Limestone) (The following information is from The Quarrying Industry of Missouri, by E. R. Buckley, Director and State Geologist, and H. A. Buehler, Missouri Bureau of Geology and Mines Vol. II, 2nd Series, 1904.)

  “This quarry, which is owned and operated by Haller Bros., is located just south of the Knaus quarry, near Minnesota and Delor avenues. It was opened six years ago, and has been worked 250 feet north and south and 100 feet east and west. The stone consists of thin beds of compact, white limestone similar to those near the top of the Eyerman quarry on Maeder street. The beds are mainly from two to six inches in thickness. The upper portion of the quarry has a three-foot horizon which contains black chert nodules. The major joints strike N. 20° E. The beds have an apparent gentle dip to the south.

  “Three or four men are employed at the quarry, the stone being used by the company chiefly in contract work. Some of the stone is broken by hand for macadam. The company expects to install a derrick and hoist to facilitate handling the stone, which is now hauled up an inclined roadway at the west end of the quarry.”

• St. Louis, Missouri - the Hambrick-Bates Construction Company’s Limestone Quarries (Limestone) (The following information is from The Quarrying Industry of Missouri, by E. R. Buckley, Director and State Geologist, and H. A. Buehler, Missouri Bureau of Geology and Mines Vol. II, 2nd Series, 1904.)

  “Four quarries owned by Mr. Bambrick are at present operated in this city. They are all situated in the St. Louis limestone and so located that stone can be supplied in the north and west parts of the city with a minimum of haulage. The office of the company is located at Grand avenue and Forest Park boulevard.

  “The quarry at Grand avenue and Forest Park boulevard is just east of the Heman Construction Co.’s quarry. It is rectangular in shape and contains practically the same beds as the Heman quarry described on a following page. The stone contains bitumen along some of the short tight seams. Portions of the west face have been colored by the precipitation of iron oxide from chalybeate waters.

  “The quarry is equipped with a crushing plant, derrick steam hoists and steam drills. The chief products are rubble and crushed stone.

  “The quarry operated by this company at the corner of St. Louis and Union avenue is a sunken opening approximately 300 feet by 200 feet in size. Thick deposits of loess, which originally covered this quarry, have been removed by the St. Louis Hydraulic Press Brick Company, for use in the manufacture of brick. The following is a description of the beds form top to bottom:

  3 ft. - Decomposed, bouldery limestone.

  1-2 ft. 6 in. - Fine grained, yellowish brown limestone having a porous, sandy texture. Contains thin veins of calcite. This bed appears at the southwest corner of the quarry.

  4 ft. - crystalline, gray limestone. Splits into two heavy beds.

  19 ft. - Finely crystalline, gray limestone in beds from two to eighteen inches in thickness.

  7 ft. - Finely crystalline, dark gray limestone. Very porous near the top. shows evidence of bitumen.

  4 ft. 10 in. - Fine grained, compact, dark gray limestone, containing dark flint nodules. Bituminous material occurs along the jointing planes.

  8 ft. - Compact, fossiliferous, gray limestone, in beds from two to four inches in thickness. Beds are separated by very thin layers of shale. Near the middle occurs a ten inch bed of fine grained, siliceous limestone.

  2 ft. 10 in. - Medium grained, crystalline, gray limestone. Splits along stratification planes.

  7 ft. 6 in. - Dark gray limestone. Splits into two beds the upper of which is a fine grained, impure, bluish gray limestone. The lower bed is finer grained, crystalline limestone containing fewer impurities.

  11 ft. 6 in. - Fine grained, drab limestone. Upper beds are somewhat lighter colored than the lower. Separates into beds from one to two feet in thickness. The stone is brittle and works easily.

  “The beds have a slight dip to the northeast.

  “In general, the stone from this quarry is of good quality. It works well into rubble and crushed stone. The equipment consists of a No. 5 Austin crusher, two pumps, one derrick and a steam hoist. An average of twenty-five men are employed. The street railway companies obtain ballast at this place.

  “The quarry located at the corner of Angellica and Florissant streets has a somewhat irregular outline, with a total working face of about 325 feet. At the time it was examined, the lower portion was filled with water and other parts were covered with stripping. It is covered with thirty feet of loess. The stone is similar to that at the Perkinson quarry described on a following page. It is a fine grained, crystalline limestone described on a following page. It is a fine grained, crystalline limestone and is used mainly for rubble and crushed for macadam. The major joints strike east and west and north and south. From twelve to fifteen men are employed.

  “The quarry located at the northeast corner of Clayton Road and Taylor avenue has been operated quite extensively, having been opened about 430 feet east and west and 200 feet north and south. The middle part was covered with water at the time it was examined. The east end was not in very good working condition. When examined in 1902 operations were being carried on entirely at the west end. The following is a section from top to bottom, taken at the northwest corner of the quarry:

  20 ft. - Loess and clay stripping.

  28 ft. - Finely crystalline, bluish gray limestone in beds from three to fourteen inches in thickness. Ten feet from the bottom, this ledge contains thin layers and nodules of chert.

  10 in. - Finely crystalline, bluish gray limestone. Shows a suture joint in the middle. Ledge can be broken into blocks of large dimensions.

  4 ft. 3 in. - Soft, yellowish limestone. From six inches to one foot, at the top, is white. Contains nodules of dark flint and pockets of clay. The stone from this ledge is crushed.

  11 ft. 10 in. - Crystalline, bluish gray limestone, in beds from four to twelve inches in thickness. The two upper beds are from fourteen to sixteen inches thick.

  6 ft. 3 in. - Finely crystalline bluish gray limestone. In beds from six to ten inches in thickness. Contains thin calcite veins, filling joint planes.

  5 ft. - Fine grained, soft, argillaceous, gray limestone. Splits into four beds. Has a buff color along bedding planes. Small suture joints occur in this stone.

  “The major joints strike N. 40° W., N. 35° E., and N. 80° E. They are open at the top and occur from ten to thirty feet apart.

  “The stone is hoisted from the quarry in movable wagon boxes, by means of derrick and steam hoist. The quarry is equipped with a crushing plant, steam drills and two pumps. An average of from twenty to twenty-five men are employed.

  “The stone is used for building purposes and manufactured into macadam. It has the appearance of being very durable.”

• St. Louis, Missouri – the Hamburg Quarry Company (from Stone: An Illustrated Magazine, December 1916, Vol. XXXVII, No. 12, pp. 659)

  “The Hamburg Quarry Company, of St. Louis, Mo., has increased its capital stock from $2,000 to $4,000.”

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