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:

The Kansas Sandstone Industry in the Mid-1890s:

Kansas.-Sandstone is found in all parts of this State, but the most productive portions are in the southern and southeastern counties. Bourbon, Phillips, and Rawlins counties are the most productive, although quarries have been operated in Crawford, Woodson, Clark, Wilson, Kingman, Harper, and Comanche counties.

But little was done in 1894.

The Kansas Limestone Industry in the Mid-1890s:

Kansas.-The value of the produce in 1894 was $241,039. Most of this was used in building and road making. The following are the productive counties: Cowley, Leavenworth, Marshall, Chase, Ripley, Butler, Lyon, Wyandotte, and smaller amounts from Marion, Atchison, Wabaunsee, Shawnee, Washington, Johnson, Russell, Dickinson, Franklin, Morris, Elk, Brown, Douglas, Republic, Pottawatomie, Coffey, Anderson, Jefferson, Ness, Montgomery, Jackson, Harper, Sumner, Ellsworth, and Osage. The stone is pretty well distributed over the eastern portion of the State. Most of it, however, comes from the vicinity of Atchison, Leavenworth, Topeka, and Fort Scott.

 

Tests and Analyses of Kansas Building Stones

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The foregoing table is made from the collection of limestone specimens at the World's Columbian Exposition; the determinations having been made by Dr. S. W. Williston, of Lawrence, Kans.

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