The Missouri Stone Industry in Chronological Order

1856 - The following excerpt is from the 1856, The Marble-Workers’ Handbook, pg. 251:

“Veined and crystalline Marbles are found in Missouri.”
1866 - Building Materials in Missouri circa 1866 - Excerpt from Physical Geography of Missouri in First Annual Report on The Commissioner of Statistics, To The General Assembly of Missouri For The Year 1866, by Professor C. G. Swallow.
1870 – Stone/Mineral Wealth of Southwestern Missouri – Excerpt from Mineral Wealth of Missouri, Lecture entitled “Description of South-Western Missouri and South-Eastern Kansas... – Hints to Settlers, &c.,” by Prof. C.D. Wilbur, Inspector of Mining Lands, Delivered in the Hall of Representatives, Jefferson City, Missouri, on February 18 and 19, 1870.
1880 - Missouri Building Stones & Geology as of 1880 - Excerpts from the 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, 1983, 410 pp. (Missouri section, pp. 265-274.)
1882 – The Missouri Stone and Building Industry in 1882 – Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States, Calendar Year 1882, J. S. Powell, Director, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1883. Excerpts from the chapters on (1) “Structural Materials” and (2) “The Useful Minerals of the United States.”
1882 - Missouri Building Stones and Geology - Excerpts from History of Boone County, Missouri...Including a History of Its Townships, Towns and Villages, St. Louis: Western Historical Company, 1882.
1883 and 1884 Missouri Stone Industry – Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States – Calendar Years 1883 and 1884, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1885.
1885 – The Missouri Stone and Building Industry in 1885 – Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States, Calendar Year 1885, David T. Day, Geologist, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1887. Excerpt from the chapter on “Structural Materials,” by H. S. Sproull.
1886 – The Missouri Stone and Building Industry, 1886 – Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States, Calendar Year 1886, David T. Day, Chief of Division of Mining Statistics and Technology, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1887. Excerpts from the chapter on “Structural Materials,” by William C. Day.
1886 - Missouri Building and Ornamental Stones, 1886, and History of the Missouri Stone Industry - Excerpt from Report of the United States National Museum Under the Direction of the Smithsonian Institutions For the Year Ending June 30, 1886, Chapter entitled, “The Collection of Building and Ornamental Stones In The U. S. National Museum: A Hand-book and Catalogue,” by George P. Merrill, Curator, Department Lithology and Physical Geology.
1887 - The Missouri Stone and Building Industry, 1887 - Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States, Calendar Year 1887, David T. Day, Chief of Division of Mining Statistics and Technology, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1888.
1888 - The Missouri Stone and Building Industry, 1888 - Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States, Calendar Year 1888, David T. Day, Chief of Division of Mining Statistics and Technology, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1890.
1889 & 1890 - The Missouri Stone and Building Industry, 1889 and 1890 - Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States, Calendar Year 1889 and 1890, David T. Day, Chief of Division of Mining Statistics and Technology, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1892.
1890 - The Building Stones of Missouri circa 1890 - “Notes on The Building Stones, Clays and Sands of Iron, St. Francois and Madison Counties,” by G. E. Ladd, Assistant Geologist, in Bulletin 1, Geological Survey of Missouri, Jefferson City, April 1890.
1890 - Missouri Stone Industry circa 1890 - Excerpt from Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Arkansas for 1890, Vol. IV. “Marbles and Other Limestones,” 1893, by T. C. Hopkins.
1891 - The Missouri Stone and Building Industry, 1891 - Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States, Calendar Year 1891, David T. Day, Chief of Division of Mining Statistics and Technology, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1893.
1891 - Missouri Building Stones - Excerpts from “Notes on The Clays and Building Stones of Certain Western Central Counties Tributary to Kansas City,” by G. E. Ladd, Assistant Geologist, in Bulletin No. 5, Geological Survey of Missouri, Jefferson City, July 1891, pp. 46-86. (This publications includes the following table: “Clays and Building Stones. Statistical Table of Stone Quarries. For The Year 1890.”)
1892 - The Missouri Stone and Building Industry, 1892 - Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States, Calendar Year 1892, David T. Day, Chief of Division of Mining Statistics and Technology, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1893.
1893 - The Missouri Stone and Building Industry, 1893 - Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States, Calendar Year 1893, David T. Day, Chief of Division of Mining Statistics and Technology, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1894.
1893 - The Missouri Stone Industry - Excerpt from Stone: An Illustrated Magazine, April 1893, Vol. VI, No. V, by William C. Day, U. S. Geological Survey.
1894 – Missouri Stone Industry in 1894 – Excerpts from the Sixteenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, Part IV.–Mineral Resources of the United States, 1894, Nonmetallic Products. Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1895. Excerpts from the chapter on “Stone,” by William C. Day.
1895 – Missouri Stone Industry in 1895 – Excerpts from the Seventeenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, Part 3 - Continued, Mineral Resources of the United States, 1895, Nonmetallic Products, Except Coal, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1896. Excerpts from the chapter on “Stone,” by William C. Day.
1896 – Missouri Stone Industry in 1896 – Excerpts from the Eighteenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, Part V - Continued, Mineral Resources of the United States, 1895, Nonmetallic Products, Except Coal, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1897. Excerpts from the chapter on “Stone,” by William C. Day. (This publication includes on Missouri Granites, an abstract of a paper by Prof. Charles R. Keyes, State Geologist of Missouri.)
1896 - Building Stones in the Mine La Motte Area of Missouri - Excerpts from A Report on Mine La Motte Sheet, including Portions of Madison, St. Francois and Ste. Genevieve Counties, by Charles Rollin Keyes, State Geologist, Missouri Geological Survey, Reports on Areal Geology (Sheets 1-4) Volume IX, 1896.
1897 – Missouri Stone Industry in 1897 – Excerpts from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, Part VI - Continued, Mineral Resources of the United States, 1897, Nonmetallic Products, Except Coal and Coke, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1898. Excerpts from the chapter on “Stone,” by William C. Day.
1898 – Missouri Stone Industry in 1898 – Excerpts from the Twentieth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, Part VI - Continued, Mineral Resources of the United States, 1898, Nonmetallic Products, Except Coal and Coke, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1899. Excerpts from the chapter on “Stone,” by William C. Day.
1899 - Missouri Mineral Industry circa 1899 - Excerpts from The Mineral Industry, Its Statistics, Technology and Trade in the United States and Other Countries to The End of 1899, Edited by Richard P. Rothwell, Vol. VIII. Supplementing Vols. I to VII., 1900.
1899- 1900 - Missouri Stone and Building Industry & the United States, 1899-1900 - Excerpts from Twenty-First Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, Part VI - Continued, Mineral Resources of the United States, 1899, Nonmetallic Products, Except Coal and Coke, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1897.
1900 - The Mining Industry in 1900 in Missouri - from A Revolution in the Heartland: Changes in Rural Culture, Family and Communities 1900-2000 (in PDF format), by Rex R. Campbell with Mary Campbell & Coleen Hughes, Department of Rural Sociology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri.

According to this book, limestone quarrying was one of the major types of mining that was in operation in the early 1900s. Italian immigrants were attracted to the jobs in the mines, and they immigrated to towns in Missouri such as Novinger and Bevier. Missouri limestone was mined from open pits, and much of the limestone was used to correct the acidity of the Missouri soil. The quarry industry in Missouri developed in the early 1900s and continued on through the mid-1900s. “Some of the larger mines near metropolitan areas have turned into underground mines that are used for commercial storage after the mining has removed the stone.”
1901 - The Missouri Stone and Building Industry & the United States - 1901 - Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States, Calendar Year 1901, David T. Day, Chief of Division of Mining and Mineral Resources, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1902.
1902 - The Missouri Stone and Building Industry & the United States - 1902 - Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States, Calendar Year 1902, David T. Day, Chief of Division of Mining and Mineral Resources, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1904.
1903 - The Missouri Stone and Building Industry& the United States - 1903 - Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States, Calendar Year 1903, David T. Day, Chief of Division of Mining and Mineral Resources, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1904.
1904 - The Missouri Stone and Building Industry & the United States - 1904 - Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States, Calendar Year 1904, David T. Day, Chief of Division of Mining and Mineral Resources, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1905.
1904 - “The Quarrying Industry of Missouri,” by E. R. Buckley, Director and State Geologist, and H. A. Buehler, from Missouri Bureau of Geology and Mines Vol. II, 2nd Series, Jefferson City, Missouri, Tribune Printing Company, State Printers and Binders, 1904. (This book is available for reading and downloading on the Google Book Search” in the “Full View Books” section.)
1905 - Building Stones, Abrasives, Lime and Calcareous Cements, and Abrasives circa 1905 - Excerpts from Economic Geology of The United States, by Heinrich Ries, A.M., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Economic Geology at Cornell University, New York: The MacMillan Company, London: MacMillan & Co., Ltd., November 1905. (“Chapter III. Building Stones,” pp. 69-91, “Chapter V. Lime and Calcareous Cements,” pp. 109-123, and “Chapter IX. Abrasives,” pp. 158-166.)
1910 - Missouri Stone Production Statistics in The Monumental News: A Journal of Monumental Art, Marble, Granite, Stone, Bronze, Sculpture, Vol. XXII, No. 4, April 1910, pp. 292 in PDF format.
1912 - Missouri Building Stones circa 1912 - Excerpts from Building Stones and Clay-Products: A Handbook For Architects, by Heinrich Ries, Ph.D., First Edition, 1912.
1917 - Missouri Sandstone Industry as of 1917 - Excerpts from Sandstone Quarrying in The United States, Bulletin 124, Mineral Technology 17, by Oliver Bowles, U. S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, Washington, 1917.
1920 - Mining and Manufacturing in the Ozark Highlands of Missouri - Excerpt from The Geology of The Ozark Highland of Missouri, Bulletin No. 7, by Carl O. Sauer, published for the Geographic Society of Chicago, 1920, pp. 209-214. (Chapter XIV. Mining and Manufacturing)
1921 & 1922 - Marble Production in Missouri - Article from Stone Magazine, February 1924, Vol. XLV, No. 2, pp. 159)
1923 - Missouri Marble Production as of 1923 - Excerpt from Stone Magazine, July 1925, Vol. XLVI, No. 7, pp. 426.
1923 - Missouri Monument Business circa 1923 - Excerpt from Monumental News: Granite, Marble, Stone, Bronze Sculpture, March 1923, Vol. XXX, No. 3.
1924 - Missouri Marble Industry circa 1924 from “Memoranda About Marble: With Special Reference to Southern Marbles,” by John Stephen Sewell, in Monumental News Magazine, March 1924, Vol. 2, No. 11.
1925 - The Missouri Marble Industry from “The Marble Business: A Southern Industry,” By Colonel John Stephen Sewell (Courtesy The Southern Banker), pp. 17-24, in Throvgh The Ages Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 6, October, 1925.
1926 - The Missouri Marble Industry from “The History of Marble,” by Col. John Stephen Sewell in Through The Ages Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 12, April 1926, pp. 28-35.
1946 (up through) - Missouri Marble - Excerpts from Missouri Marble, by Norman S. Hinchey, Report of Investigations No. 3, Missouri Geological Survey and Water Resources, Rolla, Missouri, 1946.
1994 - 2006 - The Mineral Industry of Missouri – United States Geological Survey (1994 through 2006) (Scroll down to the “Publications” section.)

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