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Excerpt from
Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Arkansas for 1890
Vol. IV. Marbles and Other Limestones, pp. 179.
By T. C. Hopkins.
James C. Branner, Ph.D., State Geologist, Brown Printing Company, Little Rock, Ark., 1893.
“Missouri, - ‘Beds of buff, gray, flesh-colored red and variegated marble occur in the eastern part of Reynolds county; Big Creek, Marble Creek, and Stout’s Creek, in Iron county; Marble Creek, Leatherwood and Cedar Creeks in Madison county. These beds often possess great beauty and would be desirable for table tops and mantels.’*
“Limestone from the Boone chert formation is quarried in considerable quantities at Carthage, Missouri, where it is used for marble. A large mill for sawing the stone has been erected at the quarry. Marble is quarried also at St. Genevieve and Cape Girardeau.”
(* Page 179, footnote 2: G. C. Broadhead in the report of the Geological Survey of Missouri, 1874, p. 56.)
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