Quarries in Missouri & Quarry Links, Photographs, and Articles
Carthage Building Stone Companies - Named Companies

• Carthage, Missouri – “Carthage Marble” Quarries (photographs and history) The following information is from Early Stone Cutters in Western Missouri, A  Research Study From Jones-Seelinger-Johannes Foundation, 2005, Poplar Heights Farm, 103 West Walnut  Street, Butler,  Missouri. (Brian Phillips - Executive Director, Terrie Jessup - Program Director, Patricia Jacobs - Research Assistant, Betty Newton - Research Assistant, Photography - Brian Phillips, Terrie Jessup, Melissa Phillips)

  There are many Carthage Marble quarry-related photographs included in this article including this photo captions: “Aerial view of the Carthage Marble Corporation quarries and finishing plant.  Taken in the 1950’s.”

  • Carthage Quarries (Use the “Carthage” entry in the menu on the left to locate the Carthage quarries.)
• Carthage, Missouri – Planned Frisco Railroad Spur to Quarries “north of the river” (circa 1898) (excerpt from Stone: An Illustrated Magazine, February 1898, Vol. XVI, No. 3, “Notes from Quarry and Shop” section, pp. 304.

  “The Carthage (Mo.) Press says that the Frisco is quietly laying its plans to build a spur to the quarries north of the river, and that two surveys for that purpose have been made, one of which was completed a couple of days ago. It is known that at least one of the quarries north of the river is very anxious to have the Frisco build to it, and it is probable that both are. It is said that both spurs may be built, the east one to reach quarry land near Kellogg’s springs likely to be opened up soon. Forty acres there are owned by Mrs. Newell, Dr. Caffee and Mr. Plummer, of Pennsylvania. George Stebbins also owns forty acres. Plans are on foot to open up this land, but nothing definite is at present ready for publication. Dr. Caffee informed a Press reporter that he had the right of way for a Missouri Pacific spur to the quarry land referred to, procured several years ago, and that he expected both a Pacific and a Frisco spur would be built there some day. He thinks it highly probable that a quarry will be opened up on the land in which he is interested between this and spring.”

• Carthage, Missouri – One of our famous stone quarries, Carthage, Mo.

  (postcard photograph; early 1900s; unmailed)

• Carthage, Missouri – Quarry View, Carthage, Mo.

  (postcard photograph; early 1900s; unmailed)

• Carthage, Missouri – Stone Quarry (color postcard photograph K.39; distributed by Joplin News Company, Inc., Joplin, Missouri; Curteichcolor; unmailed) “This is an interesting sight for the numerous tourists visiting Carthage and the Ozarks. The Quarries are located just North of the city limits off U.S. 71 Highway. Some of the finest marble in the world is quarried and fabricated here.”
• Carthage, Missouri – Stone Quarry

  (colorized postcard photograph; published by C. E. Wheelock; unmailed)

• Carthage, Missouri – Stone Quarry, Carthage, Mo.

  (colorized postcard photograph; early 1900s; unmailed)

• Carthage, Missouri – Old Lime Kiln, Superior Limestone Quarry, Carthage, Mo.

  (colorized postcard photograph, early 1900s; unmailed)

• Carthage, Missouri – Old Lime Kiln, Carthage, Mo.

  (colorized postcard photograph, #1585541; International Post Card Company of NYC; early 1900s, unmailed)

• Carthage, Missouri – Quarry View, Carthage, Mo.

  (colorized postcard photograph, # A-40109; C.T. Photochrom; Photochrome; early 1900s; unmailed)

• Carthage, Missouri – View of Carthage Missouri Stone Quarry

  (postcard photograph, #76; published by the Richards Co., Fort Scott, Kansas; early 1900s; unmailed)

Cartridge Building Stone Companies Section

• Carthage, Missouri - the Arnosti Marble Company (from Stone Magazine, September 1922, Vol. XLIII, No. 9, pp. 471)

  “The Arnoste Marble Co., Carthage, Mo. Capital, $50,000. Incorporators, A. Arnoste, K.D. Steadley and T.C. Pennington.”

  • Carthage, Missouri - the Arnosti Marble Company (from Throvgh The Ages Magazine: November 1923, Vol. 1, No. 7, pp. 70. The information below was also published in the following issues of Throvgh The Ages Magazine: December 1923, Vol. 1, No. 8, pp. 42; January 1924, Vol. 1, No. 9, pp. 42; February 1924, Vol. 1, No. 10, pp. 42; April 1924, Vol. 1, No. 12, pp. 42; May 1924, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 42; June 1924, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 42; July 1924, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 42; August 1924, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 42; and September 1924, Vol. 2, No. 5, pp. 42.)

    The Arnosti Marble Company, Carthage, Mo., is listed in the “List of Quarries and Marble Manufacturers represented in the membership of the National Association of Marble Dealers.” A. Arnosti is listed as the company representative.

  • Carthage, Missouri - the Arnosti Marble Company (Advertisement) from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, July 1925, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 62)

    Elevator Lobby of the Mid-Continental Building, Tulsa, Okla. A French marble known as Jaune Nile Fleuri was chosen for this distinctive treatment. Architects: Atkinson & Olston, Tulsa, Okla.

    Arnosti Marble Company

    Carthage, Missouri - Tulsa, Oklahoma

    (pp. 70) The Arnosti Marble Company, Carthage, Mo., is listed in the “List of Quarries and Marble Manufacturers represented in the membership of the National Association of Marble Dealers.” A. Arnosti is listed as the company representative.

  • Carthage, Missouri - the Arnosti Marble Company(from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, December 1925, Vol. 3, No. 8, pp. 70.)

    The Arnosti Marble Company, Carthage, Mo., is listed in the “List of Quarries and Marble Manufacturers represented in the membership of the National Association of Marble Dealers.” A. Arnosti is listed as the company representative.

  • Carthage, Missouri - the Arnosti Marble Company (Advertisement) (from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, January 1926, Vol. 3, No. 9, pp. 59. The same advertisement was published in the following issue of Throvgh The Ages Magazine: December 1925, Vol. 3, No. 8, pp. 59.)

    Arnosti Marble Company

    Carthage Missouri - Tulsa, Oklahoma

    Elevator Lobby of the Mid-Continental Building, Tulsa, Okla.

    A French marble known as Jaune Nile Fleuri was chosen for this distinctive treatment. Architects: Atkinson & Olston, Tulsa, Okla.

  • Carthage, Missouri - the Arnosti Marble Company (from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, dated April 1927, Vol. 4, No. 12, pp. 66. This information was also published in the following issue of Throvgh The Ages Magazine: October 1927, Vol. 5, No. 6, pp. 64.)

    The Arnosti Marble Company, Carthage, Mo., is listed in the “List of Quarries and Marble Manufacturers represented in the membership of the National Association of Marble Dealers.” M. P. NcNerney is listed as the company representative.

  • Carthage, Missouri - the Arnosti Marble Company (Advertisement) (from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, September 1928, Vol. 6, No. 5, pp. 45)

    

    Arnosti Marble Company, Carthage, Missouri

    Dependable Service and High-Class Workmanship

    Alfred D. Locarni, Secy. & Treas. - M. Paul McNerney, President

• Carthage, Missouri – Planned Frisco Railroad Spur to Quarries “north of the river” (circa 1898) (excerpt from Stone: An Illustrated Magazine, February 1898, Vol. XVI, No. 3, “Notes from Quarry and Shop” section, pp. 304.

“The Carthage (Mo.) Press says that the Frisco is quietly laying its plans to build a spur to the quarries north of the river, and that two surveys for that purpose have been made, one of which was completed a couple of days ago. It is known that at least one of the quarries north of the river is very anxious to have the Frisco build to it, and it is probable that both are. It is said that both spurs may be built, the east one to reach quarry land near Kellogg’s springs likely to be opened up soon. Forty acres there are owned by Mrs. Newell, Dr. Caffee and Mr. Plummer, of Pennsylvania. George Stebbins also owns forty acres. Plans are on foot to open up this land, but nothing definite is at present ready for publication. Dr. Caffee informed a Press reporter that he had the right of way for a Missouri Pacific spur to the quarry land referred to, procured several years ago, and that he expected both a Pacific and a Frisco spur would be built there some day. He thinks it highly probable that a quarry will be opened up on the land in which he is interested between this and spring.”

• Carthage, Missouri – the Carthage Building Stone Company (from Stone: An Illustrated Magazine, June 1902, Vol. XXIV, No. 6, pp. 460)

  “The Carthage Building Stone Company, of Carthag, Mo., has been incorporated, with capital stock of $35,000. The directors are A. H. Caffee, A. G. Newell, M. P. Newell, Geo. Allen and Thomas Alexander. A number of the stockholders are residents of Pennsylvania. The quarry is located on the Newell-Caffee land and is the nearest one to Carthage, being only one mile from the Town Hall. A switch has already been constructed and a mill will at once be erected. The Carthage limestone has been received with great favor as a building material in the middle West.”

• Carthage, Missouri – the Carthage Building Stone Company (from Stone: An Illustrated Magazine, June 1902, Vol. XXIV, No. 6, pp. 461)

  “The Carthage, Mo., Building Stone Company, composed of J. P. Newell, Dr. Coffee (sic), and several Pennsylvania men, has given a contract to Thomas Gatlin to strip the ledge of stone. As soon as the quarry is ready for opening the work of getting out stone will be taken up.”

• Carthage, Missouri - the Carthage Building Stone Company’s Limestone Quarry (Limestone) (The following information is from The Quarrying Industry of Missouri, by E. R. Buckley, Director and State Geologist, and H. A. Buehler, Missouri Bureau of Geology and Mines Vol. II, 2nd Series, 1904.)

  “The quarry operated by the Carthage Building Stone Co. is located a quarter of a mile west of the Spring River Stone Co.’s quarry. This company has been in operation about a year.

  “The quarry is situated near the base of a hill which rises gradually to the north. It has a south face 150 feet long and has been worked about 100 feet into the hill. It is expected to extend the quarry to the east so as to increase the available stone. At present the quarry face is 18 feet 6 inches in height and consists of three channel cuts 5 feet, 7 feet 6 inches and 6 feet in depth. Above the stone there is a stripping of about five feet of chert, clay and bouldery limestone. It is expected to make another channel cut below the present floor of the quarry. This will bring the bottom of the quarry near the level of the water in Spring river.

  “The stone from this quarry is very similar to that quarried in other parts of the area. It is a white, coarsely crystalline limestone, and free from impurities which might result in discoloration. Suture joints occur here the same as in the other quarries. There are no noticeable tar seams and very little flint has been encountered.

  “The quarry is equipped with two Sullivan Y channelers and a forty-ton derrick. A large modern mill has been erected containing six gang-saws, the largest of which will take a block 16 feet 10 inches long by 9 feet high. The other five gang-saws will take blocks 12 feet 6 inches long by 7 feet in height. The power to operate the plant is furnished by a 250-horse power boiler and 150-horse power engine. A fifty-ton traveling crane is used to move the stone in the cutting shed and onto the cars.”

  Plate XX. Carthage Building Stone Company’s Mill, Carthage, Mo.

• Carthage, Missouri – Carthage Building Stone Co. Quarry, Carthage, Mo.

(colorized postcard photograph; The Albertype Co. Brooklyn, N. Y.; early 1900s; unmailed)

• Carthage, Missouri - the Carthage Building Stone Co. Quarry (Visit this web site for historical information on this quarry, presented on the web site entitled, Early Stone Cutters in Western Missouri, A  Research Study From Jones-Seelinger-Johannes Foundation, 2005, Poplar Heights Farm, 103 West Walnut  Street, Butler,  Missouri. (Brian Phillips - Executive Director, Terrie Jessup - Program Director, Patricia Jacobs - Research Assistant, Betty Newton - Research Assistant, Photography - Brian Phillips, Terrie Jessup, Melissa Phillips)

  The Carthage Building Stone Co. quarry was “located a quarter of a mile west of the Spring River Stone Co’s quarry.”

• Carthage, Missouri - the Carthage Consolidated Quarry Company’s Limestone Quarry (Originally owned by W. B. Myers) (Limestone) (The following information is from The Quarrying Industry of Missouri, by E. R. Buckley, Director and State Geologist, and H. A. Buehler, Missouri Bureau of Geology and Mines Vol. II, 2nd Series, 1904.)

  “This quarry, which is located in the N. E. ¼ of the S. E. ¼ of sec. 11, T. 28 N., R. 32 W., was opened in 1895 by W. B. Myers who later sold it to the Carthage Consolidated Quarry Co. It has not been worked since 1900.

  “This quarry has a south and east face, the former of which is 300 feet and the latter 200 feet long. The following is a description of the channel cuts from top to bottom:

  4 ft. 8 in. - Limestone, containing a number of prominent suture joints from six to fifteen inches apart. Between these are small suture joints.

  4 ft. - Limestone, containing prominent suture joints one foot three inches from the bottom and three inches from the top.

  8 ft. - Limestone in which the suture joints are from four to ten inches apart. Two very prominent ones occur eight inches and three feet from the top.

  “The major joints are open and strike N. 30° E.

  “The expense incurred by removing the two cherty ledges has caused this quarry to be abandoned for the present. Outside of these ledges, the stone is practically of the same quality as that in the other quarries. The first stone quarried at this place was used for bridge abutments on the Missouri Pacific railroad.

  “The west quarry is located in the N. E. ¼ of the S. E. ¼, sec. 32, T. 29, R. 31 W., about one-fourth of a mile southwest of the quarry owned by the Carthage Quarry Company. It consists of an irregular opening about 400 feet by 260 feet. The following is a description of the stone by channel cuts from the top to the bottom of the quarry:

  0-8 ft. - Red clay and broken stone stripping.

  6-9 ft. - Bouldery limestone having a mottled color due to bituminous material.

  7 ft. 4 in. - Light gray limestone, containing suture joints from two to eight inches apart.

  3 ft. 8 in. - White stone. Lower portion of one and one-half feet free from prominent sutures. Bed contains dries.

  4 ft. 2 in. - White limestone. The lower two feet contains no suture joints of importance. Fourteen inches of this stone is practically free from them. In the remainder of the ledge, these joints are from two to eight inches apart. The stone splits along a prominent joint, containing blue shale, one foot from the bottom.

  8 ft. - Bluish colored limestone, contains fine and coarse suture joints from two to fourteen inches apart. One of the prominent suture joints occurs two feet from the bottom.

  4 ft. 6 in. - Blue limestone, containing two coarse suture joints two feet three inches from the bottom and eleven inches from the top of the ledge.

  3 ft. 6 in. - Limestone, containing suture joints from two to ten inches apart.

  8-16 in. - Layer of white chert.

  2 ft. 6 in. - White, fine grained limestone containing a thickness of from twenty to twenty-four inches of No. 1 stone.

  “Below the floor of this quarry, good stone is known to occur, although none of it has been quarried. The quarry face contains an occasional fine suture joint perpendicular to the bedding. At present no stone is being quarried below the white chert layer.

  “The following are the maximum thicknesses of No. 1 stone that can be obtained from the different channel cuts when the stone is sawed across the bed:

  1st (bottom cut) - 18 in.

  2nd - 6-8 in.

  3rd - 20 in.

  4th - 20 in.

  5th - 16 in.

  6th - Rather irregular producer of No. 1. In places a thickness of 10 inches can be obtained.

  “The beds dip slightly to the north. Irregular open joints, filled with clay, strike northwest and extend into the quarry as far as the second channel cut above the flint bed.

  “At the northeast corner of the quarry the lower beds give evidence of being under slight stress. When making the opening or head cut north and south on each of the three lower channel cuts, it was found that as this cut deepened it closed perceptibly, and smaller bits were necessary to continue the work. The effect was noticed after the stone had been channeled from two to three feet from the top of the bed. The stone for about eighteen inches on each side of the channel cut showed many fine joints parallel to the bed.

  “The mills at both the east and west quarries are equipped with modern machinery for handling, sawing and dressing the stone. The east mill is equipped with gang-saws, a traveling crane, engines, boilers and other necessary machinery. The west quarry is equipped with an engine, boiler, gang-saws, rip-saws, derricks, hoists, etc. The quarry is equipped with channelers, derricks and such other machinery as is necessary to remove the stone.

  “This company has a mill in St. Louis, at which much of the stone is used in that city is cut and dressed.”

• Carthage, Missouri - the Carthage Consolidated Quarry Co. Quarry (Visit this web site for historical information on this quarry, presented on the web site entitled, Early Stone Cutters in Western Missouri, A  Research Study From Jones-Seelinger-Johannes Foundation, 2005, Poplar Heights Farm, 103 West Walnut  Street, Butler,  Missouri. (Brian Phillips - Executive Director, Terrie Jessup - Program Director, Patricia Jacobs - Research Assistant, Betty Newton - Research Assistant, Photography - Brian Phillips, Terrie Jessup, Melissa Phillips)
• Carthage, Missouri - the Carthage Dimension Flagstone Company (from Stone: An Illustrated Magazine, May 1899, Vol. XVIII., No. 6, pp. 338)

  Stone Trade Notes: “The Carthage Dimension and Flagstone Company, recently reorganized, will take up the business of the late W. J. Gilfillan, flagstones, and will also handle all cut stone turned out by the Carthage Marble & White Lime Company.”

• Carthage, Missouri - the Carthage Foundry and Machine Works (Advertisement) (from Stone Magazine, November 1922, Vol. XLIII, No. 11, pp. 580)



Improved Automatic Sand Feed Machine.

“The Carthage Foundry & Machine Works of Carthage, Missouri, have received patents on an improved Automatic Sand Feed Machine, the purpose of which is to feed automatically, continuously, chilled shot, crushed steel, sand or other abrasive material, to gang saws, rubbing beds, and other stone working machinery.

“The custom heretofore has been to shovel the abrasive by hand into hoppers from which the abrasives fed themselves by gravity, but in this way the feed was intermittent and iregular (sic) and the outlet from the hoppers were subject to frequent clogging. The automatic feeder gives a positive mechanical feed and overcomes this inconvenience. It is another step towards increase in the efficiency of stone cutting equipment, and one that is destined to meet with general favor.

• Carthage, Missouri - Carthage Foundry and Machine Works (Advertisement) (from Stone Magazine, Vol. XLIV, No. 4, April, 1923, Stone Publishing Company. This same advertisement appeared in the following issues of Stone Magazine: April, 1923, Vol. XLIV, No. 4, pp. 228; December 1923, Vol. XLIV, No. 12, pp. 716)



Automatic Sand Feed For Feeding Sand to Sand Pump

Will Save You Money and Labor

Send for Description and Price

Carthage Foundry & Machine Works, 427-29 N. Main Street, Carthage, MO.

• Carthage, Missouri - Carthage Foundry and Machine Works (Advertisement) (from Stone Magazine, February 1924, Vol. XLV, No. 2, pp. 113)

“The Carthage Foundry & Machine Works, Carthage, Mo., announce that their application for a patent in Canada on their Improved Automatic Sand Feed Machine for feeding abrasives to rubbing beds and gang saws has been granted. American Patents on this machine, the company, announced, were granted a little more than a year ago.”

• Carthage, Missouri – Carthage Foundry and Machine Works (Advertisement) (The following information is from an advertisement in Stone: An Illustrated Magazine, Vol. XLVI, No. 3, March, 1925, Stone Publishing Co., New York, pp. 178.)



Carthage Foundry & Machine Works,

427-29 N. Main Street, Carthage, MO.

Automatic Sand Feed For - Feeding Sand to Sand Pump

Will Save You Money and Labor - Send for Description and Price

• Carthage, Missouri - the Carthage Foundry and Machine Works (from Stone Magazine, October 1925, Vol. XLVI, No. 10, pp. 621)

“The Carthage Foundry & Machine Works, Carthage, Mo., are introducing a number of new and improved stone and marble working machinery, stone and ore crushers and crushing rolls. Among the new machines is the Carthage Crusher and the Cornish Rolls. This firm is also marketing the Ozark Sand Pump the Improved Automatic Sand Feed. A booklet describing these machines will be sent upon request.”

• Carthage, Missouri - the Carthage Foundry and Machine Works (from Stone Magazine, April 1926, Vol. XLVII, No. 4, pp. 244)

“The Carthage Foundry & Machine Works, Carthage, Mo., announce that they have increased their facilities and have added virtually all lines of machinery for the operation of quarries and marble plants. The complete line includes gang saws, rubbing beds, polishing machines, diamond saws, sand feeds, sand pumps, quarry hoists and quarry derricks. For mines the company furnishes jaw crushers, crusher rolls and sand pumps.”

• Carthage, Missouri - the Carthage Foundry and Machine Works (from Stone Magazine, November 1926, Vol. XLVII, No. 11, pp. 684)

  Trade Notes

  “The Carthage Foundry & Machine Works, Carthage, Missouri, is furnishing and installing six gang saws in the new marble plant of the Joplin Marble Quarries Company, Joplin, Mo. These saws were specially designed for the sawing of marble for interior work. The Carthage Foundry & Machine Works also will furnish the polishing machines, rubbing beds, sand feeds, etc., for the new finishing plant to be erected by the company.”

• Carthage, Missouri - the Carthage Foundry and Machine Works (Advertisement) (from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, April 1927, Vol. 4, No. 12, pp. 59.)

Interior of the F. W. Steadley & Company, Inc. New Sawmill, Carthage, Missouri. Showing our new extra heavy type gang saws sawing interior marble.

Carthage Foundry and Machine Works, Carthage, Missouri

Manufacturers of Gangs, Rubbing Beds, Polishing Machines, Diamond Saws, Sand Feeds and Sand Pumps

• Carthage, Missouri - the Carthage Foundry and Machine Works (Advertisement) (from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, September 1928, Vol. 6, No. 5, pp. 49)



Carthage Foundry and Machine Works, Carthage, Missouri

Manufacturers of Gangs, Diamond Saws, Rubbing Beds, Polishing Machines, Patented Automatic Sand Feeds and Sand Pumps.

The Illustration shows our latest improved Extra Heavy Duty Gang Saw

for sawing interior marble. Capacity, fifty to sixty saw blades.

• Carthage, Missouri - the Carthage Marble and Building Stone Co. (from Stone Magazine, November 1926, Vol. XLVII, No. 11, pp. 684)

  “Carthage Marble and Building Stone Co., Carthage, Mo., has just completed and placed in operation a new $10,000 limestone crushing plant. Several improvements, including the replacement of the old frame sawmill building with a structure of stone, are also under way.”

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