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

• Carthage, Missouri – the Carthage Marble and White Lime Company Mill (from Stone: An Illustrated Magazine, April 1899, Vol. XVIII, No. 5, pp. 226)

  Marble and Granite: “The Carthage, Mo., Marble and White Lime Company are building an additional mill for sawing Carthage stone, and the McNerney Bros. and others are putting in an entire plant of quarrying machinery on land north of the river which they recently purchased.”

  • Carthage, Missouri – the Carthage Marble and White Lime Company Quarries (from Stone: An Illustrated Magazine, July 1899, Vol. XIX, No. 2, pp. 154)

    “The new plant of the Carthage Marble & White Lime Company, which has just been erected at their new quarry a mile west of their well known pioneer quarry north of town, is just starting its saws to-day. They have one of the best built plants in the locality, begun last January. S. Lloyd is foreman of both the old and new quarries.

    “Another new quarry in process of development is that of the Carthage Quarry Company, of which E. O’Keefe is president; F. A. Steadley, vice-president; F. W. Steadley, secretary and treasurer, and Martin McNerney, general manager. The other stockholders of the company are P. J. McNerney and W. H. Phelps.

    “The quarry boss is Bob O’Brien. The work on this quarry plant was started about March 1, and has been rapidly pushed towards completion.

    “General Manager Martin McNerney, of this company, says he was the first man to discover the limestone ledges of this vicinity. This was in 1881 when, as a contractor, he built the Missouri Pacific bridges in this locality. He got the stone from the ledge where the Carthage Marble & White Lime Company now operate. I. F. Garner then followed Mr. McNerney’s discovery by starting a regular quarry, and the Carthage Marble & White Lime Company are his successors….”

• Carthage, Missouri – the Carthage Missouri and White Lime Company (from Stone: An Illustrated Magazine, October 1899, Vol. XIX, No. 5, “Quarrying” section pp. 456.

  “The Carthage Marble & White Lime Company, which is meeting with a most flattering demand for its stone, is making a number of improvements at its quarries at Carthage, Mo. A new boiler and hoisting house have been erected on a portion of the quarry from which the desirable rock has been used. A large new derrick has been erected also. A new section of the rock ledge at the east end of the quarry has ben (sic) stripped and channeling machines will be put at work on it at once. The new derrick has been located with special reference to the removal of stone from this new portion of the quarry. A blacksmith shop with power blower and forge have been erected at the west end of the sawing works. The company is enterprising and fully abreast of the times.

  “It is reported that two new quarries are to be opened near Carthage, Mo. Carthage stone has been growing in popularity to a most remarkable extent.”

  • Carthage, Missouri – the Carthage Marble and White Lime Company Quarry & Mill (The following photographs are 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.)

    Plate XXII. West Mill of the Carthage Marble and White Lime Company, Carthage, Mo.

    Plate XXIII. Carthage Limestone (Burlington). West quarry of the Carthage Marble and White Lime Company, Carthage, Mo.

  • Carthage, Missouri - the Carthage Marble and White Lime Company (from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, June 1923, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 57. The same advertisement was also published in the following issues of Throvgh The Ages Magazine: May 1923, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 43; July 1923, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 57; August 1923, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 57; September 1923, Vol. 1, No. 5, pp. 57.)

    Carved panel in the residence of Mr. J. P. Evans, Shreveport, Louisiana. Neild and Olschner, Architects.

    Carthage Marble and White Lime Co., Carthage, Missouri

    (pp. 42. The following information was also published in the following issues of Throvgh The Ages Magazine: May 1923, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 42; August 1923, Vol. 1, No. 4 on pp. 57; September 1923, Vol. 1, No. 5, pp. 42; October 1923, Vol. 1, No. 6, pp. 42; November 1923, Vol. 1, No. 7, pp. 42; 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; July 1924, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 42; September 1924, Vol. 2, No. 5, pp. 42.)

    The Carthage Marble and White Lime Company, Carthage, Mo., is listed in the “List of Quarries and Marble Manufacturers represented in the membership of the National Association of Marble Dealers.” George S. Beimdiek is listed as the company representative.

  • Carthage, Missouri - the Carthage Marble and White Lime Co. (Advertisement) (from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, October 1923, Vol. 1, No. 6, pp. 57. The advertisement below was also published in the following issues of Throvgh The Ages Magazine: November 1923, Vol. 1, No. 7, pp. 57; December 1923, Vol. 1, No. 8, pp. 57; January 1924, Vol. 1, No. 9, pp. 57; February 1924, Vol. 1, No. 10, pp. 57.)

    Carthage Marble and White Lime Co., Carthage, Missouri

    Carved panel for First Liberty Savings Bank, Eagle Grove, Iowa. Thorwald Thorson, Architect.

  • Carthage, Missouri – the Carthage Marble & White Lime Co. (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. 136.)

    

    Carthage Marble & White Lime Co.

    George S. Reimdiek, General Manager, Carthage, MO.

    Forty Years- Continuous Service

    1884 – Gray Imperial Marble – 1924

    Producers of Carthage Marble for Exterior and Interior

  • Carthage, Missouri - the Carthage Marble and White Lime Co. (Advertisement) (from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, July 1925, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 58) (The same advertisement was published in the following edition of Throvgh The Ages Magazine: December 1925, Vol. 3, No. 8, pp. 57; January 1926, Vol. 3, No. 9, pp. 57; April 1926, Vol. 3, No. 12, pp. 57)

    Buder Grade School, St. Louis, Mo., R. M. Milligan, Comm. of School Bldgs., Architect. The treads are of Lake Champlain marble. All of the other marble throughout is Carthage Imperial Gray. Finished and installed by Union Marble and Tile Co.

    Carthage Marble and White Lime Co., Carthage, Missouri

    Gray Imperial Marble

    The following information was also published in the following issues of Through The Ages Magazine: June 1924, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 43; August 1924, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 42; April 1925, Vol. 2, No. 12, pp. 61.

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

  • Carthage, Missouri - the Carthage Marble & White Lime Company (1925 Booklet) (from Stone Magazine, August 1925, Vol. XLVI, No. 8, pp. pp. 493.

    Valuable Booklet For Architects

    “A booklet of fourteen pages, including a heavy paper cover, of standard filing size for filing by architects, has been issued by the Carthage Marble & White Lime Company, Carthage, Missouri. This booklet covers specifications governing and information regarding Carthage Imperial Gray Marble for exterior work. The color of Imperial Gray Marble is soft and restful and when rock-faced or sawed there is just enough blue tint to deaden the monotony of even white, or the bluish cast gives it life and character. In finish this marble polishes well and lends itself to a wide range of architectural and decorative uses. The booklet recommends four finishes, sand-rubbed, brush-hammered, rock-faced and tooled. Under specifications details are given, which, if followed, will give best results on the job. A section is devoted to the setting of this marble and a page is devoted to a reproduction, 1/3 size of an average sample of the marble sawn from block across the bed. Under the heading ‘Qualities’ absorption, chemical purity, weathering and wearing qualities, strength and color are discussed. Analysis and test figures are given on another page. A number of views of buildings showing this marble in use are shown.

    “The Carthage Marble & White Lime Company has been quarrying in the Carthage district since 1884, and operates only the most modern machinery in its quarries and mills. Samples of Imperial Gray Marble, as well as copies of the booklet will be furnished to architects upon request to the company.”

  • Carthage, Missouri - the Carthage Marble and White Lime Co. (from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, December 1925, Vol. 3, No. 8, pp. 70.)

    The Carthage Marble and White Lime Co., Carthage, Mo., is listed in the “List of Quarries and Marble Manufacturers represented in the membership of the National Association of Marble Dealers.” George S. Beimdiek is listed as the company representative.

  • Carthage, Missouri - the Carthage Marble and White Lime Co. (Advertisement) (from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, January 1926, Vol. 3, No. 9, pp. 57)

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

  • Carthage, Missouri - the Carthage Marble and White Lime Co. (Advertisement) (from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, April 1927, Vol. 4, No. 12, pp. 52.)

    Detail of Entrance to Rotary Park, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Bailey and Alden, architects. The entire double entrance is built of Imperial Gray marble quarried and finished by the Carthage Marble and White Lime Company.

    Carthage Marble and White Lime Co., Carthage, Missouri

    (pp. 66) The Carthage Marble and White Lime Co., Carthage, Mo., is listed in the “List of Quarries and Marble Manufacturers represented in the membership of the National Association of Marble Dealers.” Geo. S. Beimdiek is listed as the company representative.

  • Carthage, Missouri - the Carthage Marble and White Lime 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 company (the Carthage Marble and White Lime Co.) has two separate quarries, each of which is equipped with a mill. Both mills are in operation, but the stone is being obtained exclusively from the west quarry.”

• Carthage, Missouri – the Carthage Marble Corporation
  • Carthage, Missouri – the Carthage Marble Corporation – Maintenance of Interior Marble (pdf), by D. W. Kessler, Research Associate, National Bureau of Standards, Compliments of Carthage Marble Corporation Carthage, Missouri, Published by National Association of Marble Dealers, 648 Rockefeller Building, Cleveland, Ohio (no date of publication in the booklet – possibly early 1900s)  W. D. Carol, Sales Representative, P.O. Box 945, Columbus, Ohio.

    Maintenance of Interior Marble, Carthage Marble Corp., Carthage, Missouri

  • Carthage, Missouri - the Carthage Marble Corporation (from Monumental News Magazine, September 1927, Vol. 39, No. 9, pp. 485.)

    Firm Changes and Other News: It has been reported that the Carthage Marble Corp. of Carthage, Mo., has acquired the Ozark Quarry and will remodel the plant and install modern machinery.

  • Carthage, Missouri – the Carthage Marble Corp. Quarry, Carthage, Mo.  (postcard photograph; “Blake Photo”; early- to mid-1900s, unmailed)

    Carthage Marble Corp. Quarry, Carthage, Missouri (postcard photograph; “Blake Photo”)

  • Carthage, Missouri - the Carthage Marble Corporation (Advertisement) (from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, October 1927, Vol. 5, No. 6, pp. 59.)

    Ozark Wesleyan College, Carthage, Missouri, Bonsack and pierce, architects, St. Louis, Missour (sic).

    Carthage Marble Corporation, Carthage, Missouri

    Representative for New York City: Domestic Marble & Supply Co., 8 W. 40th St.

    Representative for Pacific Coast: John M. Fabbris, Sharon Building, San Francisco, Cal.

    For beauty, durability and economy, Ozark Gray Marble cannot be excelled for either exterior or interior uses. Samples furnished promptly upon request.

    (pp. 64) The Carthage Marble Corporation, Carthage, Mo., is listed in the “List of Quarries and Marble Manufacturers represented in the membership of the National Association of Marble Dealers.” John B. Robertson is listed as the company representative.

  • Carthage, Missouri – the Carthage Marble Corp.  (Advertisement from Stone, Vol. XLIX, No. 1, January 1928, pp. 53)

    Carthage Marble Corporation, Carthage, Missouri
    Representative for New York City:  Domestic Marble & Supply Co., 8 West 40th St., New York City– Representative for Pacific Coast:  John M. Fabbris, Sharon Bldg., San Francisco, California

    Fred F. French Building, New York City.  Designed and constructed by Fred F. French Co., McLaury Marble Co., Marble Contractors.  Ozark Gray Veined Marble was used throughout this building for corridor, wainscot and toilet room work, because of its beauty, durability, and moderate cost.

  “Fred F. French Building, New York City.  Designed and constructed by Fred F. French Co., McLaury Marble Co., Marble Contractors.  Ozark Gray Veined Marble was used throughout this building for corridor, wainscot and toilet room work, because of its beauty, durability, and moderate cost.” (Advertisement from Stone, January 1928, pp. 53)

  • Carthage, Missouri - the Carthage Marble Corporation (from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, January 1932, Vol. 9, No. 9, pp. 66.)

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

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