Excerpts from the chapters on (1) “Structural Materials” & ( 2) “The Useful Minerals of the United States:
“The division of the Tenth Census charged with the collection of statistics of building stone obtained returns from 1,525 quarries in the United States, having an invested capital of $25,414,497, and producing during the year ending May 31, 1880, 115,380,133 cubic feet of stone, valued at $18,365,055. In value of total product, the leading States rank as follows: Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Massachusetts, Illinois, New York, Maine, and Connecticut; each of these States producing upwards of $1,000,000 worth of stone. Vermont, Illinois, Ohio, Iowa, Indiana, New York, and Missouri, in the order named, produce the most marble and limestone; Ohio, New York, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania, the greater part of the sandstone; Massachusetts and Maine quarry the most granite and other siliceous crystalline rocks; while Pennsylvania leads in product of slate.”
MISSOURI
Reported by John C. Smock.
Ores, minerals, and mineral substances of industrial importance, which are at present mined.
Flagging stone: Brownsville, Saline county, a siliceous rock, much used; Clinton, Henry county; Sainte Genevieve, Sainte Genevieve county, second sandstone and first magnesian limestone extensively quarried; O’Bannon’s quarry, Madison county.
Granite: Knob lick, Saint François county, large quarries; Iron mountain, Iron county, a red granite; Madison and Sainte Genevieve counties, unworked.
Limestone: Mine la Motte, Madison county; Amazonia and Savannah, Andrew county; many quarries opened; Kansas City, Jackson county, an oölitic stone; Pleasant Hill, Cass county; Mooresville, Livingston county; Princeton, Mercer county; Chilicothe, Lincoln county; Liberty, Clay county; Forest City, Holt county, many quarries; Missouri City, Clay county; and Sainte Genevieve, Sainte Genevieve county. Many other localities in outcrops of Silurian and Carboniferous rocks in all parts of State.
Marble: Near Cedar creek, Cedar county; in Jasper and Newton counties, not utilized; White Oak mills, Vernon county, sandstone used for grindstone also; T. 31, R. 31, Barton county; Forest City, Holt county; granites of Ozark range in southeast part of State–formerly used.
Sandstone: Warrensburg, Johnson county, extensively quarried; near Miami, in Carroll county, these are in Coal Measures; north part of Atchison county, Brownsville, Saline county; Clinton, Henry county; Sainte Genevieve.