The Hawaii Stone Industry, 1908
Excerpts from
Mineral Resources of the United States, Calendar Year
1908>
Part II - Nonmetallic Products
Department of the Interior, United States Geological
Survey
Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1909.
Excerpt from the book are from the chapter on: Stone, by A. T. Coons:
Granite:
In 1907 there were six States with an output valued at over $1,000,000. In 1908 Maryland dropped below $1,000,000, and Maine exchanged places with Massachusetts, although the production was almost identical for the two States.Of the other States, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, South Carolina, and Texas increased in value of output, and Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Utah, and Virginia decreased. Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Utah, and Washington include some basalt and volcanic rock, and trappean rocks in their production; other States, notably Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, include some gneiss, trap rock, syenite, mica schist, diabase, etc.
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