Joplin.
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Tailings From The Lead and Zinc Mills.
“The tailings from the Lead and Zinc Mills of this district, known as chats, are used in great quantities by the railroads for ballast and in the construction of concrete piers and abutments in bridges and culverts. They are also used extensively in the construction of macadam pavements and in granolithic walks and cement curbs and gutters. In the vicinity of Joplin, Web City, Carterville, Carthage and Aurora, there are hundreds of thousands of tons of crushed flint and limestone available for these purposes.
“One might suggest other uses to which these chats might be put. For example, it is thought that they might be used advantageously in the manufacture of artificial stone, electrical conduits and sewer pipe. The low price at which these tailings may be obtained makes them a very unimportant consideration in any product in which they might be used. They will prove, however, at some time, to be very a valuable asset to this district.”
La Grange.
“There are extensive outcrops of stone along the river bluffs at La Grange, which have been quarried in a number of places for local building stone and rip rap. Quarries are owned at this place by the following named parties: L. Hagood, J. H. Brosi, Ried and Brosi and D. K. Oyster.”
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Louisiana. (Missouri)
“The following quarries are located in the vicinity of Louisiana: the C. C. Pratt quarry, situated at the west end of the city; the Hart quarry, southwest of the city; the Marble Head Lime Co.’s quarry, two miles north of the city; and the City quarry at the foot of eighth street. The stone at all of the quarries, with the exception of the City, is of Burlington age and is situated at the top of the bluffs about 200 feet above the Mississippi river valley.”
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Madge.
“The Madge Stone Co. and the Joplin-Elk River Stone Co. operate quarries located on the same hill east of the Kansas City Southern railroad at this place. Both quarries are at the same level and similar stone is taken out of both.”
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Monroe.
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Montgomery City.
“Two small quarries, located west of the city, are owned and operated respectively, by J. P. Grennen and J. B. Grennen. The quarries are located in limestone of Burlington age. The market for this stone is entirely local.”
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Mt. Vernon.
“A number of small quarries have been opened in the vicinity of Mt. Vernon, but they are only operated intermittently to supply local demands. They are all located along a range of bluffs north of the city, and in limestone of Burlington age. The color, texture and hardness of the stone is practically the same in all the quarries. They all contain too much chert to warrant extensive development. The principal quarries are owned by R. O. Davis, H. Brumback and W. N. Gibbs. Besides these, there are a number of less importance....”
Miscellaneous Quarries (in the Mt. Vernon area).
“Two other quarries have been operated in this neighborhood. John Fenton owns one a half a mile west of the Davis quarry, in which the stone is essentially the same as that in the Davis quarry. Two and one-half miles east of the city, there is a small quarry owned and operated by Mr. Stewart. Two ledges of bluish gray limestone containing very little flint occur at this place.
“The great quantity of flint renders extensive development impracticable. Where free from flint, the stone has all the appearance of being strong and durable. A good, strong, white lime can be burned out of this stone.”
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Napton.
“Three quarries, owned respectively by Mrs. L. E. Tichenor of Napton, H. W. Kolkmeyer of Jefferson City and A. Olson of Marshall, are operated at this place. The quarries are located in sec. 2, T. 49 N., R. 20 W., just northeast of the village of Napton. They are situated along the crest of adjacent hills, the stone being obtained from beds of limestone of Burlington age. The stone is coarsely crystalline and has a slightly bluish gray color. It contains chert nodules and suture joints, which are everywhere characteristic of the Burlington formation. The quarries are situated on gentle anticlines, the beds dipping at an angle of about 5° from the horizontal. Most of the stone is shipped to Marshall.”
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New London.
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Noel.
“Three quarries are operated at this place. Most of the strata found in the quarry of the Madge Stone Co.,* described on a previous page, occur at all of the quarries. The strata above and including the seven-foot bed, have been removed by erosion at this place, leaving only the lower part of the section. The following quarries are being operated south of the city: The John P. Hughes quarry, the Armstrong and Cravens quarry and the Railroad quarry.”
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Ozark.
“Two quarries are located in the vicinity of this city, which are owned respectively by Mr. T. Reives and Mr. Henry Spiece. The stone from the Spiece quarry is used exclusively in local buildings, while that from the other quarry is used in the manufacture of curbing and flagging, which are shipped to Springfield and other cities in Southwest Missouri.”
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“Palmyra.
“Two quarries have been opened in this vicinity which belong respectively to Wm. Martin and the city of Palmyra. The stone is essentially the same, consisting of flinty beds of limestone of Burlington Age.”
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Paris.
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Pierce City.
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Phenix.
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St. Louis.
“Practically all the common building stone, as well as the limestone used for macadam and concrete in St. Louis, is obtained from the formation known as the St. Louis Limestone. This formation belongs to the Mississippian or Lower Carboniferous. It has an estimated thickness of 250 feet and underlies a large part of the eastern half of St. Louis county, including the city of St. Louis. North and west of the city, it is overlain with beds belonging to the Pennsylvanian or Upper Carboniferous.
| Plate XXXIV. Map of St. Louis showing the location of quarries. |  |
“The Mississippian series forms precipitous bluffs along the Mississippi river south of the city, and constitute a part of what is known as the St. Louis Carboniferous basin.
“In Bullet No. 3, published by the Missouri Geological Survey in 1890, there are several tables of chemical analyses which indicate the variations in the composition of the different beds. These tables have been copied in this report and will be found in Chapter XI. The variations in composition between different beds show that there must have been a considerable difference in the condition at that time the sediments were deposited. The insoluble residue varies from 0.76% to 19.96%; the combined oxides vary from 0.16% to 11.75%; calcium carbonate varies from 75.00% to 97.36%; and the magnesian carbonate varies from 0.59% to 31.95%. The variations in composition are not gradual, but often very abrupt. For example, in the Steifel quarry, two adjacent beds contain respectively 3.41% and 18.70% of insoluble matter, while the percentage of magnesian carbonate is respectively 0.76% and 31.51%. Similar abrupt changes in composition occur at other horizons. As a whole, the upper portion of the formation is a purer calcium carbonate limestone than the lower.
“At one time the purer beds of limestone were used in the manufacture of quicklime, which is reported to have been of very good quality. When the large kilns were built west and south of the city for the manufacture of lime from the Trenton formation, the quicklime industry was abandoned at the quarries in which St. Louis limestone was being exploited. Some of the beds in this formation are almost pure calcium carbonate and perfectly adapted for use in the manufacture of Portland cement. at Fort Bellfontaine, the St. Louis Portland Cement Company is using this limestone and Coal Measure shale for the manufacture of an excellent grade of cement.
“The quarries in the city are known as ‘bluff quarries’ and ‘sunken quarries.’ The former occur along the Mississippi river bluffs, while the latter occur in the city where the stone can be obtained only by working below the surface. A number of these rectangular, sunken quarries have reached a depth of from 100 to 125 feet. The stone is usually hoisted from the sunken quarries with steam hoist, although in a number of cases inclined roadways have been built, up which the stone is hauled by team. Where the stone is hoisted, it is usually loaded on the floor of the quarry into movable wagon boxes which are moved directly from the derrick onto the wagon frames. The ‘bluff quarries’ require very little machinery. The stone is usually well jointed and is comparatively easy to quarry.
“The Quaternary deposits consist of loess, which covers a large part of the county. This deposit frequently has a thickness of thirty or forty feet and is sometimes a source of considerable expense in working the quarries. In the case of a sunken quarry, when the soil and clay are once removed, there is no more stripping, but in the ‘bluff quarries’ there is continual removal as the quarry is extended into the hill.
“The principal products of the St. Louis quarries are rubble and crushed stone. The output of the latter product has increased very rapidly during the past few years, until now it constitutes the most valuable product. Very little of the stone is cut or dressed for building construction, although a number of the beds have every appearance of being desirable building stone. The Hill-O’Mera Construction Co. and the Stolle Stone Co. each produce a small amount of cut stone. None of the other companies operate channelers or saws. The purer calcium carbonate stone, at a number of the quarries, is used for furnace flux. At two of the smaller quarries, the stone is used chiefly for this purpose. At the Fruin-Bambrick Construction Co.’s quarry, a small amount of the limestone is ground into ‘flour,’ which is used in finishing interior walls and in the construction of asphalt pavements.
“The total value of the production of the St. Louis quarries for 1903 was $834,614.03. The following table gives the value of the different products of the quarries:
Rubble - $88,309 P - $119,617.80
Crushed stone - 865,446 yds. - $635, 536.31
Cut stone - 1,500 cu. ft. - $1,500.00
Riprap - 25,376 yds. - $20,126.96
Flux }
Flour } $38,480.39
Miscellaneous uses - $19,352.58.
“Formerly many large quarries were operated in different parts of the city. Many of these have been filled and buildings erected on the sites of the former quarries (by 1904). Quarrying along the river bluffs is not as extensive as formerly.
“The following is a list of the quarries inspected in 1902 in the city of St. Louis and environs:
| J. W. Allen. | Joseph Knaus. |
| Atlantic Quarry & Construction Co. | Kempf and Hoge. |
| Bambrick-Bates Construction Co. | J. A. Lohrum. |
| Wm. Bemmey. | Nic Lamb. |
| Albert Bussen. | T. Madden (Maddensville). |
| T. Cavanaugh. | E. K. Moss (Maddensville). |
| City Workhouse. | Martin Kempf (Barretts). |
| Crystal Spring Quarry (Vigus). | Meramec Highlands |
| Phillip Emmerick | Mound City Construction Co. |
| Eyerman Bros. | Perkinson Bros. |
| Jacob Freidrich. | Wm. Pepper. |
| Fehlig Construction Co. | H. Ruecking & Co. |
| Fruin-Bambrick Construction Co. | John Rupricht. |
| Geo. T. Fink. | St. Louis Portland Cement Co. |
| Geisel Construction Co. | Stolle Stone Co. |
| Haller Bros. | Sinclair Construction Co. (Vigus). |
| Herman Construction Co. | Phillip Stifel. |
| Hill-O’Mera Construction Co. | Wade Bros. Construction Co. |
| Fred Hoffman. |
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Ste. Genevieve.
“Very few counties in the State have within their borders as many different geological horizons as Ste. Genevieve. The pre-Cambrian, Ordovicion (sic), Silurian, Devonian and Mississippian are all found in this county. Most of these formations contain stone suitable for building constructions. The river bluffs, north of the city of Ste. Genevieve, are the most favorably situated for quarrying operations. The rugged topography of the land west of the river bluffs also makes quarrying comparatively easy. Transportation, both by river and by railroad, can be had. The limestone and sandstone of the Cambro-Ordovician formations, which outcrop over a large part of the county, are quarried locally in many places for chimneys, fire-places and foundations. In some places, the limestone is very finely crystalline, having much the appearance and many of the characteristics of marble. The Archimedes and St. Louis limestones, which occur in the bluffs along the Mississippi river, have been quarried quite extensively. The United State government operates one of the largest quarries in the State in the St. Louis limestone two miles above Ste. Genevieve.
“The first use of the St. Louis limestone in the manufacture of quicklime was in 1840, the product being shipped by boat to various points along the Mississippi river. It is still being used for this purpose. The stone disintegrates rapidly when exposed to the weather and therefore is not desirable for building. The quarries in this formation will be described more in detail in a later report on the ‘Lime and Cement Industries.’
“South of Ste. Genevieve, the ‘Ferruginous sandstone’ has been quarried extensively in the past, but at present it is not being used. The following are brief descriptions of the individual quarries which were inspected in this locality.”
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The Aux Vases Sandstone Quarries.
“Formerly, a number of quarries were operated in the Aux Vases sandstone, about four miles south of Ste. Genevieve. Large quantities of this stone were used in the abutments of the Eads bridge, at St. Louis; in the Iowa State Capitol, at Des Moines; and in the Equitable and McLean buildings in St. Louis. At one time the Richardson quarry, located in the United States Survey 307, T. 37, R. 9 E., and the Bogy quarries, located in the United States Survey No. 3221, T. 37, R. 9 E., were operated on an extensive scale. The former employed from 400 to 500 men and the latter from 300 to 400. The Wilder quarry, located in United States Survey 307, T. 37, R. 9 E., also produced considerable stone.
“The Richardson quarry, which was the only one inspected, has been opened along a bluff for a distance of about 650 feet and at the south end has been worked into the hill 210 feet. It has a vertical face of thirty-two feet at the south end, while at the north end the depth is much less. The stone is covered with from twenty to thirty feet of loess stripping. The upper seven feet is very shelly stone and was removed by blasting. Underneath this the stone was all channeled. The upper three feet of the channeled portion is rather shelly and is unfit for constructional purposes.
“Stratification planes are especially prominent in some parts of the quarry and for this reason care should be exercised in selecting the stone. Only one vertical joint was observed. This was near the south end of the quarry and it had a strike of N. 50° W. the stone is fine grained, light buff to yellowish in color, and rather soft when first quarried.
“The other quarries in this formation contain stone which is very similar to that above described. The only difference is in color.”
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St. Charles.
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Sedalia.
“The quarries which are operated at the present time (circa 1902/1904) in the vicinity of Sedalia are owned by Rymer Bros., J. W. Marsh, James Jenkins, Benjamin Johnson and Mr. McEnroe. A number of abandoned quarries occur in this locality. The quarry at Georgetown, four miles north of Sedalia, is said to contain excellent building stone, but its distance from the market makes it unprofitable to work. Along the Georgetown road, north of Sedalia, a number of quarries have been opened up which are now abandoned. The stone from one of these was, at one time, used by the city as a road metal.
“In most of the quarries, the stone is partly Burlington and partly Chouteau. Burlington, which lies immediately above the Chouteau, has been entirely removed by erosion in some parts of this area. At the Rymer, Jenkins and Johnson quarries, all of the stone belongs to the Chouteau formation. At the McEnroe quarries, the upper beds are Burlington limestone and the lower Chouteau. All of the beds in the Marsh quarry belong to the Burlington.
“The Burlington limestone is the typical coarse grained, crystalline, fossiliferous variety, so characteristic of this formation. Here, as elsewhere, it produces an excellent quality of white lime. The Chouteau underlies the region about Sedalia and the outcrops indicate a thickness from forty to ninety feet. In general, it occurs in thick, massive beds with very few bedding or stratification planes. The stone is a fine grained, compact, siliceous, magnesian limestone, having a uniform light drab color, except along the weathered joints and bedding planes, where it has a buff tint. Large chert nodules are disseminated irregularly through the stone. It breaks with a conchoidal fracture and is more difficult to quarry than that which is well stratified.”
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Springfield.
“The principal quarries in and near Springfield are quarrying limestone belonging to the Burlington formation. According to Dr. E. M. Shepard,* this formation covers a greater part of the S.W. ½ of Greene county and contains a maximum thickness of 215 feet. Shepard** recognizes three divisions of the Burlington in this county.”
(Page 201, footnote 1: Mo. Geol. Sur., Vol. XII, Geol. of Greene Co., by Dr. E. M. Shepard, p. 115.
(** Page 201, footnote 2: ibid, p. 113.)
“1st. A heavy bedded chert, or alternating thin beds of shaly limestone and chert, from a few to forty feet in thickness.
“2nd. A coarse grained, crystalline, soft, grayish colored limestone, carrying rather soft, Lenticular masses of chert, from a few inches to a foot or two in diameter. In places the chert is absent. The beds are characterized by having suture joints and the stone is alternately fine and coarse.
“3rd. A decidedly shaly horizon much harder than the upper two. These beds have a thickness of from fifty to eighty feet and are remarkably pure limestone, containing only traces of silica, alumina, magnesia and iron. Chert nodules are present and increase as the formation is followed to the southeast.
“The most important quarries in this locality are operated by H. F. Denton, the Marble Head Lime Co., J. D. Coutlet and R. S. Denny.
“With the exception of the Hollman quarry, the stone differs very little in its general characteristics, being rather coarsely crystalline, but to light gray and fossiliferous, containing layers and occasional nodules of flint. The stone is suitable for building purposes, but is too soft for macadam. It might be used for foundations, but even in this position a harder stone is more desirable. The following are descriptions of the individual quarries:”*
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Sweeney.
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Troy.
“Two quarries are located in the vicinity of this city, which are owned respectively by Mr. E. G. Hammond and Mr. H. Behreus. These quarries are located about one-fourth of a mile south of the depot, in sec. 36, T. 49, R. 1 W., and are just west of the St. Louis and Hannibal railroad. The stone is very similar in both quarries and occurs in well stratified beds of a very convenient thickness for working by hand.”
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Walnut Grove.
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Warsaw.
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White House.
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