Quarries in Missouri & Quarry Links, Photographs, and Articles
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• Kansas City, Missouri – Forrester Brothers Stone Company (from Stone: An Illustrated Magazine, June 1902, Vol. XXIV, No. 6, pp. 568)

  “Forrester Brothers Stone Company, of Kansas City, Mo., has been incorporated with a capital stock of $5,000 all paid in. The incorporators are C. B., John D., and James M. Forrester.”

• Kansas City, Missouri – R. Forster’s Stone Quarry, located at 24th & McGee Streets (from “Notes on The Clays and Building Stones of Certain Western Central Counties Tributary to Kansas City,” by G. E. Ladd, Assistant Geologist, in Bulletin No. 5, Geological Survey of Missouri, Jefferson City, July 1891)

• Kansas City, Missouri – J. J. Grady’s Stone Quarry, located at 24th & Euclide Streets (from “Notes on The Clays and Building Stones of Certain Western Central Counties Tributary to Kansas City,” by G. E. Ladd, Assistant Geologist, in Bulletin No. 5, Geological Survey of Missouri, Jefferson City, July 1891)
• Kansas City, Missouri - the Grady Limestone Quarry, located at the corner of 42nd street and Highland avenue (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 is located at the corner of 42nd street and Highland avenue. It is operated by T. F. Grady and has been worked during the past four years. It is situated on the west side of the hill and has a face 250 feet long. The stripping consists of from twelve to twenty feet of loess and clay. The stone is obtained chiefly from the building stone ledge, which, at this place, consists of a lower bed of two feet eight inches of blue, argillaceous, fossiliferous limestone, having stratification planes, along which it can be split. Above this is seven feet six inches of gray, finely crystalline, fossiliferous limestone, consisting of beds from two to twelve inches in thickness, separated by wavy bedding planes. Along the bedding planes the stone has a buff color. The uppermost two feet is very good stone, but underneath this there is a very shelly ledge of two feet. The major joints strike N. 35° to 40° E. and N. 45° W. They are open and filled with clay.

  “The stone is pried up with crowbars and broken into irregular rubble with sledges. Five men are employed during the season.”

• Kansas City, Missouri - the Grady & Finn Stone Quarry, located at 25th & Oak Streets (from “Notes on The Clays and Building Stones of Certain Western Central Counties Tributary to Kansas City,” by G. E. Ladd, Assistant Geologist, in Bulletin No. 5, Geological Survey of Missouri, Jefferson City, July 1891)
• Kansas City, Missouri - the Greenwood & Hill Stone Quarry, located at 25th & Grand Avenue (from “Notes on The Clays and Building Stones of Certain Western Central Counties Tributary to Kansas City,” by G. E. Ladd, Assistant Geologist, in Bulletin No. 5, Geological Survey of Missouri, Jefferson City, July 1891)
• Kansas City, Missouri - Fred Haslam, Sales Representative for the John Swenson Granite Co. of Concord, New Hampshire (Advertisement), 4019 Kenwood Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri (from The Monumental News, Vol. XXXV, No. 9, September, 1923, Allied Arts Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, pp. 561) (A similar advertisement listing Fred Haslam of Kansas City, Missouri, as their represented was published issues of Design Hints for Memorial Craftsmen: July 1926, Vol. III, #1, pp. 2; September 1926, Vol. III, No. 3, pp. 29; October 1926, Vol. III, No. 4, pp. 7; November 1926, Vol. III, No. 5, pp. 29; December 1926, Vol. III, No. 6, pp. 5; January 1927, Vol. III, No. 7, pp. 5; February 1927, Vol. III, No. 8, pp. 7; March, 1927, Vol. III, No. 9, pp. 5; April 1927, Vol. III, No. 10, pp. 7; July 1927, Vol. IV, #1, pp. 36; August 1927, Vol. IV, No. 2, pp. 6; April 1928, Vol. IV, No. 10, pp. 40; March 1929, Vol. 5, No. 9, pp. 40; June 1929, Vol. 5, No. 12, pp. 39; August 1929, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 3; October 1929, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 4; November 1929, Vol. 6, No. 5, pp. 40; January 1930, Vol. 6, No. 7, pp. 35; April 1930, Vol. 6, No. 10, pp. 2; May 1930, Vol. 6, No. 22, pp. 15; July 1930, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 40; August 1930, Vol. 7, #2, pp. 19; and September 1930, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 4)

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• Kansas City, Missouri - D. Hawkinsmith’s Stone Quarry, located at 24th & Hardesty Streets (from “Notes on The Clays and Building Stones of Certain Western Central Counties Tributary to Kansas City,” by G. E. Ladd, Assistant Geologist, in Bulletin No. 5, Geological Survey of Missouri, Jefferson City, July 1891)
• Kansas City, Missouri - the Henion Marble & Tile Co. (from Stone Magazine, Vol. XLVI, No. 5, May 1925, pp. 302)

  New Companies: “Henion Marble & Tile Co., Kansas City, Mo.; $25,000; to deal in marble and tile; Jay Henion, St. Louis, Mo.; Rae Henion, C. E. Henion and F. W. Brownwell.”

• Kansas City, Missouri - the Hill 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.)

  “Mr. J. B. Hill operates a quarry at the foot of the bluff at 1st and Lydia streets. It has been opened along the north side of the bluff for 250 feet and the stone is obtained from the lowest ledge which outcrops at this point. The following is a section of the quarry from top to bottom:

  4-6 ft. - Clay and gravel stripping. Glacial boulders of granite are found in this stripping.

  1 ft. 8 in. - Very fine grained, compact, black limestone; bed will cap easily eight inches from top. Spalls easily and has a sharp fracture. This stone works well.

  3 ft. 8 in. - Irregular beds of the blue limestone, interstratified with shale beds from four to six inches thick.

  4 ft. 6 in. - Solid bed of fine grained, bluish gray, fossiliferous limestone. The bed shows drusy cavities of calcite. It breaks into irregular rubble, but does not cap easily.

  3 ft. - Compact, fine grained, gray limestone. Short, tight seams occur in this bed. The stone is colored in places with iron oxide and contains small seams and geodes of calcite.

  “The best stone is in the bottom bed. It works easily and has a uniform color. The four foot six inch bed is very difficult to cap and breaks into sizes suitable for building purposes. The uppermost bed has a very dark, uniform color and is very durable. It is not thick enough to produce large quantities of stone.”

• Kansas City, Missouri - M. M. Holmes’ Quarry (listed in The Mine, Quarry and Metallurgical Record of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, The Mine and Quarry News Bureau, Chicago, Ill., 1897)
• Kansas City, Missouri - the Inman 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.)

  “This quarry is located at the corner of 26th street and Broadway. It is owned by Mrs. Dewey of 420 West 16th street, and is operated by Mr. P. Inman of 29th and Holly streets. When visited, this quarry has been opened about 150 feet east and west and about the same distance north.

  “The stone is covered with from six to fourteen feet of loess. The ‘building stone’ ledge is being quarried, only the upper portion being used at present. The beds separate along irregular wavy bedding planes. It is expected to quarry the lower blue bed for building stone. This bed is twenty-fix inches thick and can be easily capped.

  “The stone is a finely crystalline, gray limestone, containing small geodes of calcite. Short, tight seams occur throughout the ledge. The joints are from six to eighteen feet apart and strike N. 45° E. and N. 40° W. They are frequently open and filled with clay.

  “Twenty-five men are employed. On derrick is used in handling the larger blocks of stone.”

• Kansas City, Missouri - the J.P. Gilman Granite Company (from Stone Magazine, June 1923, Vol. XLIV, No. 6, pp. 344)

  New Companies: “J.P. Gilman Granite Company, Kansas City, Mo., $30,000; J.P. Gilman, L.M. Gilman, S.C. Williams, Minnie E. Gilman and Ruth R. Williams, incorporators.”

• Kansas City, Missouri - J. P. Gilman Granite Co. - Frank Backman, Representative (advertisement) (from American Stone Trade, May, 1934, XXXIV, No. 10, pp. 3.)

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  Frank Backman, 4230 Holmes Street, Kansas City, Mo.

  E. O. Stander, 1110 23rd Ave., Altoona, Pa.

  Representatives: I. N. Strock, Baltic, Ohio

• Kansas City, Missouri - J. P. Gilman Granite Co. - Frank Backman, Representative (Advertisement) (from American Stone Trade, July, 1934, XXXIV, No. 12, pp. 4.)

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  J. P. Gilman Granite Co. - Fairfax Dist., Kansas City

  Representatives:

  I. N. Strock, Baltic, Ohio

  E. O. Stander, 1110 23rd Avenue, Altoona, PA

  Frank Backman, 4230 Holmes Street, Kansas City, MO

• Kansas City, Missouri - J. P. Gilman Granite Co. - Frank Backman & S. C. Williams, Representatives (advertisement) (from American Stone Trade, July, 1934, XXXV, No. 1, pp. 4)

  

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  Representatives:

  I. N. Strock, Baltic, O. - E. O. Stander, Altoona, Pa. - Frank Bachman, S. C. Williams, Kansas City

• Kansas City, Missouri - H. Johnson’s Stone Quarry, located at N. Bluff at Elmwood Avenue (from “Notes on The Clays and Building Stones of Certain Western Central Counties Tributary to Kansas City,” by G. E. Ladd, Assistant Geologist, in Bulletin No. 5, Geological Survey of Missouri, Jefferson City, July 1891)
  • Kansas City, Missouri - the Johnson 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.)

    “Henry Johnson owns and operates a quarry located at the north end of Elmwood avenue, on what are known as the North bluffs. It has a north face about 200 feet long. The following is a section of this quarry from top to bottom:

    3-12 ft. - Loess stripping.

    9 ft. - Building ledge. The upper seven feet consists of thin beds; the lower portion of two feet is blue, argillaceous limestone.

    4 ft. 6 in. - Blue and drab shale, thinly laminated. Upper six inches very dark and carbonaceous.

    1 ft. 4 in. - Shelly limestone.

    1 ft. 6 in. - Shale.

    11 ft. - Porous, gray, coarse grained, very fossiliferous, oölitic limestone. The stone is rather soft and weathers to a buff color along the joints. Small specks of iron oxide occur throughout the bed. Slight cross-bedding was observed.

    1 ft. 6 in. - Laminated shale.

    6 ft. 7 in. - Gray, fine grained, semi-crystalline limestone. Contains small geodes, nodules and small irregular veins of calcite. The ledge weathers to a buff color along the joints

    “The eleven-foot ledge is known as the oölitic ledge. It is rather soft, but has proven to be one of the most durable building stones quarried in Kansas City. In retaining walls and foundations this stone has proved very durable. It works well, capping easily, into regular rubble. It is the most important ledge in the quarry. Posts, caps, sills, etc., made from this stone show reddish brown blotches, which are caused by iron oxide. The lowest ledge, known as the ‘Bull ledge,’ is difficult to work.

    “The quarry has been worked into the hill about fifty feet. A hand derrick is used in loading the stone.”

• Kansas City, Missouri - the “Kacimo Marble” Quarry (from Missouri Marble, by Norman S. Hinchey, Report of Investigations No. 3, Missouri Geological Survey and Water Resources, Rolla, Missouri, 1946. Used with permission of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.)

  “In the course of construction of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art at Kansas City, Jackson County, limestone ledges of the Pennsylvanian were encountered in excavating a portion of the basement area. Stone from these ledges, supplemented from a quarry in Kansas City, was processed to produce marble used in the walls and arches of the vestibule at the south entrance to the Nelson Gallery. Mr. F. C. Greene of the Missouri Geological Survey reports* that the stone takes a high polish and ‘appears to be brecciated; contrasting buff, bluish-gray body with veins and blotches of deep brown oxidized material’. He states that it contains ‘masses and veins of calcite, with scattered crystalline cross-sections of fossils.’ These walls of the vestibule are from the Argentine unit of the Kansas City Group of Pennsylvanian formations. The trim at the base of the walls is from the Raytown formation and is described as darker than the walls, ‘with many lighter cross-sections of thin-edge of fossils - the same appearance which has caused the Raytown to be known as the ‘Calico Rock’ among quarrymen’ in the Kansas City area.”

  (* Page 42, footnote 5: Greene, F. C., Geologist Missouri Geological Survey: personal communication.)

• Kansas City, Missouri - the Kansas City Granite and Monument Co., Ralph Daniel Giudici, Proprietor (Obituary) (from American Stone Trade, April 1933, Vol. XXXIII, No. 9, pp. 30.

  “Ralph Daniel Giudici, of Kansas City, Mo., died at Research Hospital in that city on April 10, at the age of 61 years. He went to the hospital a few days previously for surgical treatment, and did not rally after the operation. He founded the Kansas City Granite and Monument Co., now located at 4801 E. Fifteenth Street, thirty-seven years ago and has been its chief executive ever since. He was a native of northern Italy, and learned the arts of cutting and carving stone in Milano. He came to Cleveland as a young man to design and fabricate interior marble, for he was a designer of memorials of exceptional talent and accomplishments. He was awarded the diploma of recognition of world artists in 1922 at Rome for his interpretations of memorial art in the ancient and modern models. He was a good business man, and a supporter of the trade organizations. His widow survives, three married daughters and four sons - Daniel F., Frank, Q. A. and Louis, all of whom are connected with the granite company, and in company with the secretary, James P. Sexton, will continue the business at the same stand.”

• Kansas City, Missouri – the Kansas City Marble and Lime Works (excerpt from Stone: An Illustrated Magazine, December 1897, Vol. XVI, No. 1, “Notes from Quarry and Shop” section, pp. 86)

  “Incorporated: The Kansas City Marble and Lime Works, Kansas City, Mo., capitalized for $100,000. The company has leased valuable marble quarries near Stillwell, about 270 miles from Kansas City. The marble taken from the quarries, according to exhaustive analysis, is of an excellent quality for building and tombstone purposes, being susceptible of a beautiful polish. Some of the marble is of a del icate pink, while other samples are of a tasty drab which makes very appropriate tombstones. Much of it is of a grayish white, and all of it is believed to be of as good quality as any of the marble brought from great distances, and even foreign countries. But the principal utility of the marble, at least the purposes to which the product will be chiefly put at first, is for marble dust for carbonating works. Ten thousand barrels of this product are used in Kansas City every year, and in St. Louis it is sold by the train load. The incorporators are: C. D. Whiting, 4,000 shares of common stock and 2,000 shares of preferred stock; F. A. Green, 2,000 shares; Lloyd Allen, 300 shares; A. R. Bell, 700 shares; W. P. Borland, 250 shares; J. J. Green, 250 shares.”

• Kansas City, Missouri - the Kansas City Marble and Tile Company (from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, July 1925, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 70. The same information was published in the following issue of Throvgh The Ages Magazine: May 1923, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 43; June 1923, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 42; August 1923, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 42; September 1923, Vol. 1, No. 5, pp. 43; October 1923, Vol. 1, No. 6, pp. 43; November 1923, Vol. 1, No. 7, pp. 43; December 1923, Vol. 1, No. 8, pp. 43; January 1924, Vol. 1, No. 9, pp. 43; February 1924, Vol. 1, No. 10, pp. 43; April 1924, Vol. 1, No. 12, pp. 43; May 1924, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 43; June 1924, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 43; July 1924, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 43; August 1924, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 43; September 1924, Vol. 2, No. 5, pp. 42; December 1925, Vol. 3, No. 8, pp. 70; January 1926, Vol. 3, No. 9, pp. 70; April 1927, Vol. 4, No. 12, pp. 67; October 1927, Vol. 5, No. 6, pp. 65; and January 1932, Vol. 9, No. 9, pp. 67.)

  The Kansas City Marble and Tile Company, Kansas City, Mo., is listed in the “List of Quarries and Marble Manufacturers represented in the membership of the National Association of Marble Dealers.” G. F. Keller is listed as the company representative.

• Kansas City, Missouri – Kansas City Municipal Rock Quarry (from Stone: An Illustrated Magazine, February 1916, Vol. XXXVII, No. 2, “Quarry Notes” section, pp. 66)

  “Kansas City, Missouri, has just re-opened its Municipal rock quarry, at Fiftieth Street and Swope Parkway. This is used to give employment to applicants at the municipal lodging house.”

• Kansas City, Missouri - A. Kantzman’s Stone Quarry, located at Agness Avenue north of St. John Street (from “Notes on The Clays and Building Stones of Certain Western Central Counties Tributary to Kansas City,” by G. E. Ladd, Assistant Geologist, in Bulletin No. 5, Geological Survey of Missouri, Jefferson City, July 1891)
• Kansas City, Missouri - the King 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.)

  “James King operates a small quarry at 25th and White streets, south of Sheffield. It is on the east side of the hill and has a face one hundred and twenty-five feet long and seven feet high.

  “It consists of rather heavy beds, the upper of which are the best. The stone in this bed is a fine grained, gray limestone fourteen inches in thickness. A layer of white flint nodules runs through the middle of the quarry. The stripping is light. The ‘building stone’ ledge, near the crest of the hill, is worked intermittently.

  “The stone is being used for foundations. One or two men are employed.”

• Kansas City, Missouri - the Kirn 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.)

  “A small quarry operated by Mr. G. Kirn is located on Bellview street, between 30th and 31st streets. It is situated on the west side of the bluff. The marketable stone in this quarry comes from the ‘building stone’ ledge. It varies from gray to yellowish buff and is finely crystalline. Very little stone was taken from this quarry in 1903.”

• Kansas City, Missouri - the Knapp 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.)

  “E. J. Knapp of Sheffield leases and operates a quarry one and one-half miles south of Sheffield. The quarry has a south face 315 feet long.

  “The stone is obtained chiefly from the ‘building stone’ ledge. The stone in the upper one and one-half feet is decomposed. The remainder with the exception of the bottom blue bed, is colored yellow with iron oxide and can only be used for rough masonry. The quarry is covered with not to exceed four feet of stripping.

  “The major joints strike N. 45° E. and are from six to ten feet apart. A minor set strikes N. 70° to 80° W. The quarry was not in operation when examined.”

• Kansas City, Missouri - the Knoebflein Stone Quarry, located at N. Bluff at Garfield Avenue (from “Notes on The Clays and Building Stones of Certain Western Central Counties Tributary to Kansas City,” by G. E. Ladd, Assistant Geologist, in Bulletin No. 5, Geological Survey of Missouri, Jefferson City, July 1891)
• Kansas City, Missouri - R. G. Koch, 316 E. 51st St., Kansas City, Mo., Representative for the Granite City Granite Company of St. Cloud, Minnesota (Advertisement from Design Hints for Memorial Craftsmen Magazine: April 1928, Vol. IV, No. 10, pp. 31. The same or similar advertisement ran in the following issues of Design Hints for Memorial Craftsmen magazine: May 1928, Vol. IV, No. 11, pp. 40; November 1928, Vol. V, No. 5, pp. 31; January 1929, Vol. 5, No. 7, pp. 26; Vol. 6, No. 5; February 1929, Vol. 5, No. 8, pp. 4; March 1929, Vol. 5, No. 9, pp. 35; May 1929, Vol. 5, No. 11, pp. 17; June 1929, Vol. 5, No. 12, pp. 33; October 1929, Vol. 6, No. 4, inside front cover; November 1929, Vol. 6, No. 5, pp. 15; December 1929, Vol. 6, No. 6, pp. 40; January 1930, Vol. 6, No. 7, back cover; February 1930, Vol. 6, No. 8, pp. 40; March 1930, Vol. 6, No. 9, pp. 5; April 1930, Vol. 6, No. 10, pp. 37; June 1930, Vol. 6, No. 12, pp. 3; July 1930, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 33; and August 1930, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 25) (A similar advertisement listing R. G. Koch, in Kansas City Missouri, as the company’s representative appears in the following issues of Design Hints for Memorial Craftsmen magazine: Vol. V, No. 5, November, 1928 Vol. 5, No. 7, January, 1929; & Vol. 6, No. 12, June, 1930.)

  

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  R. G. Koch, 316 E. 51st St., Kansas City, Mo. - O. A. Rairdon, Box 423 Billefontaine, Ohio

  C. H. Grunewald, 314 Eitel Bldg., Seattle, Washington ”

• Kansas City, Missouri - the La Motte Granite Co. Quarry (listed in The Mine, Quarry and Metallurgical Record of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, The Mine and Quarry News Bureau, Chicago, Ill., 1897)
• Kansas City, Missouri - the Lane 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.)

  “A small quarry, owned and operated by Mr. M. Lane of E. 29th and Jumbo streets, is located on Roanoke near 33rd street. It has an east face 110 feet long. The stone is covered with from ten to twelve feet of clay. The entire building stone ledge is being worked into rubble. The beds have a dip of 2° into the hill.

  “The joints are from ten to twenty feet apart and strike N. 30° E. and N. 55° W. Two men are employed. One derrick is used.”

• Kansas City, Missouri - the Leipheit Stone Quarry, located at N. Bluff, east of Wabash (from “Notes on The Clays and Building Stones of Certain Western Central Counties Tributary to Kansas City,” by G. E. Ladd, Assistant Geologist, in Bulletin No. 5, Geological Survey of Missouri, Jefferson City, July 1891)
• Kansas City, Missouri - the Lyle Stone Quarry, located at 23rd & Fairmont Streets (from “Notes on The Clays and Building Stones of Certain Western Central Counties Tributary to Kansas City,” by G. E. Ladd, Assistant Geologist, in Bulletin No. 5, Geological Survey of Missouri, Jefferson City, July 1891
• Kansas City, Missouri - the M. V. Lyle Limestone Quarries (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.)

  “Two quarries, operated by M. V. Lyle, are located, respectively, on Grand avenue between 25th and 26th and at the junction of 25th and Oak streets. The office of the company is at the quarry on Grand avenue. This quarry is on the west side of Grand avenue and has a face six hundred feet long extending nearly the entire distance between 25th and 26th streets. It is twenty-five feet high and consists of stone which caps the hills at this point. The stone is a fine grained, fossiliferous, gray limestone, containing small geodes, nodules and thin veins of calcite, which frequently have the outline of fossils. The beds contain many dries, which are stained with iron oxide. The stone splits along thin shale seams into beds from six to sixteen inches thick. It is weathered to a buff color from one to two inches on either side of the bedding planes. This margin is soft and shelly. The bedding planes are irregular and wavy. The heaviest ledges are near the bottom.

  “Clay seams striking N. 45° to 55° E. are prominent, and assist materially in quarrying. When visited, this plant was being operated about half the time.

  “The equipment consists of a crushing plant and the output is exclusively crushed stone.

  “The quarry at 25th and Oak streets has a face about 275 feet long on the north side of the bluff. The same ledge is worked as at the Grand avenue quarry. It has been in operation five years and considerable stone has been taken out. With the exception of the lower four feet, the entire ledge is used for crushed stone. The quarry is equipped with two crushers, a No. 3 and No. 4 Gates.

  “The quarries have a capacity of about 350 cubic yards of crushed stone per day. It is all consumed in the city for macadam and cement concrete work. An average of sixty men and from twenty-five to forty teams are worked at the two quarries.

  “The lower four feet of the ledge, which has not been quarried for crushing purposes, is now being worked by Mr. G. J. Lyle, son of M. V. Lyle, the entire product being rubble stone. This portion of the ledge separates into six or seven layers. The stone is a fine grained, bluish, argillaceous limestone, which works into a very good grade of rubble. Eight to ten men and four to six teams are worked in the quarry.”

• Kansas City, Missouri - the Lyle Rock Co.’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.)

  “This quarry of the Lyle Rock Co. is located on 2nd street just north of Lexington. It is owned and operated by Charles H. Lyle and Fred M. Hayes. The office of the company is in rooms 204-205, Massachusetts building.

  “This company owns eight and on-third (sic) acres of land, lying between Lexington street and the Chicago Alton railroad tracks. The quarry has an irregular south face about 300 feet long. The following is a section from the top to the bottom:

  10-15 ft. - Loess. Stripping.

  7 ft. - ‘Calico ledge.’ Erosion has removed this ledge at the west end of the quarry.

  8 ft. - Shale.

  9 ft. - ‘Building stone’ ledge. Consists of two feet six inches of typical blue limestone at the bottom, overlain by seven feet of shelly rock.

  4 ft. - Laminated, bluish black shale.

  4 ft. - Compact, calcareous, yellow shale.

  12 ft. - Soft, porous, fossiliferous, oölitic, gray to brown limestone. Contains small geodes and occasional small seams of calcite. The stone contains short tight seams along which it is stained yellow with iron oxide. Slight cross-bedding is common. The bed shows a number of thin shale seams along which the stone separates very easily.

  1 in. - Blue shale. This layer increases in thickness in the bluffs to the east, being one and one-half feet thick at the Johnson quarry.

  5 ft. - Fine grained, compact, gray limestone. Contains small geodes and thin irregular veins of calcite. Fossils are abundant. On either side of the joints the stone has been weathered to a buff color, to a depth of from one to two feet. This ledge is difficult to work advantageously.

  “Shale occurs beneath this level, outcropping at the foot of the bluff. To the north occurs the next lower bed of the general section. The upper portion of this bed contains many black chert nodules.

  “The oölitic limestone is the most valuable stone in the quarry, and at present it is about the only stone being quarried. It makes very good rubble and can be used for caps, wills and coursing. It is easily worked and can be split with a heavy sledge, very few plugs and feathers being needed. The ledge underneath the oölitic limestone is more difficult to work. The shale in this quarry is used by the neighboring brick yards. The quarry is being worked to the north and will soon pass through the bluff, after which it will be worked to the east.

  “The company employs about ten men and from eight to ten teams. The output is about 100 perch of stone per day.

  Laboratory Examination.

  Physical Tests. - Two-inch cubes of stone from this quarry were tested in the laboratory with the following results:

  Specific Gravity - 2.681

  Porosity - 9.148 per cent.

  Ratio of Absorption - 3.756

  Weight per cubic foot - 151.3 lbs.

  Tensile Strength - 941. lbs. per sq. in.

  Crushing Strength

  { 13,124. lbs. per sq. in. on bed.

  { 10,449. lbs. per sq. in. on edge.

  Crushing Strength of samples subjected to freezing test - 9644.7 lbs. per sq. in.

  “These tests show the stone to have lost on an average of 3,479.3 pounds per square inch, as a result of freezing and thawing. This is an appreciable amount and indicates that the stone is weakened by this weathering process.”

• Kansas City, Missouri - the Lions 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.)

  “This quarry, which is owned by Mrs. Squires and operated by James Lyons, is located at 45th and Charlotte streets. It has been opened along the north side of the hill for 240 feet and has been worked into the hill forty feet. The stone is covered with from three to five feet of clay and loess, immediately underneath which lies the ‘building stone’ ledge. The uppermost seven feet of this ledge consists of thin beds of finely crystalline, gray limestone, containing thin veins of calcite. The beds, which are from two to eight inches in thickness, are separated from one another by irregular wavy parting planes. Along the joints and bedding planes, the stone has been weathered to a yellowish buff color. The bottom ledge, which is two feet six inches thick, consists of a fine grained, argillaceous, blue limestone which splits readily along shaly bedding planes into pieces sufficiently thick for curbing. The upper portion produces rubble and building stone.

  “The major joints strike N. 45° E. and N. 45°. The first set is the more prominent. They occur from six to fifteen feet apart and are of material assistance in quarrying.

  “Four or five men are employed at this quarry. A hand derrick is used for moving the heavier blocks.”

• Kansas City, Missouri - F. Lyons’ Stone Quarry, located at 22nd & Cherry Streets (from “Notes on The Clays and Building Stones of Certain Western Central Counties Tributary to Kansas City,” by G. E. Ladd, Assistant Geologist, in Bulletin No. 5, Geological Survey of Missouri, Jefferson City, July 1891)
• Kansas City, Missouri - J. Maloney’s Stone Quarry, located at Agness Avenue south of St. John (from “Notes on The Clays and Building Stones of Certain Western Central Counties Tributary to Kansas City,” by G. E. Ladd, Assistant Geologist, in Bulletin No. 5, Geological Survey of Missouri, Jefferson City, July 1891)
• Kansas City, Missouri - the J. G. & R. Matt Stone Quarry, located at N. Bluff, west of Wabash Avenue (from “Notes on The Clays and Building Stones of Certain Western Central Counties Tributary to Kansas City,” by G. E. Ladd, Assistant Geologist, in Bulletin No. 5, Geological Survey of Missouri, Jefferson City, July 1891)
• Kansas City, Missouri - J. May’s Stone Quarries, located at (1) 12th & Summit Streets, (2) 19th & Cleveland Streets, (3) 26th & McGee Streets (from “Notes on The Clays and Building Stones of Certain Western Central Counties Tributary to Kansas City,” by G. E. Ladd, Assistant Geologist, in Bulletin No. 5, Geological Survey of Missouri, Jefferson City, July 1891)
• Kansas City, Missouri - C. McBride’s Stone Quarry, located at 31st & Mercier Streets (from “Notes on The Clays and Building Stones of Certain Western Central Counties Tributary to Kansas City,” by G. E. Ladd, Assistant Geologist, in Bulletin No. 5, Geological Survey of Missouri, Jefferson City, July 1891)
• Kansas City, Missouri - the McGill Quarry (Marble/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 operated by Mr. Samuel McGill, is located on the west side of the bluff at 29th and Genessee streets. The same stone is quarried as at the Kirn quarry previously described.”

• Kansas City, Missouri - the McTernin & Halpin Quarries (Marble/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 firm operates two quarries, one of which is located on Highland avenue between 28th and 29th streets, and the other between 27th and 28th streets and Euclid and Garfield avenues. Both quarries are working the same beds. The face of the quarry on Highland avenue extends the entire length of the block, and is thirty feet in height at the middle. At the south end of the quarry, the lower five feet is being worked for building stone. This stone is a fine grained, compact, argillaceous, blue limestone, which has weathered to a buff color along the jointing planes. It is somewhat similar in appearance to the lowest bed of the ‘building stone’ ledge. It works well into sills, caps and rubble. The upper part of the ledge is a fine grained, fossiliferous, gray limestone, containing nodules, crystals and fine irregular veins of calcite. This part of the ledge separates along wavy bedding planes into beds from six to sixteen inches in thickness. Some of the heavier beds, which occur near the base of the quarry, could be used for heavy footing. At present, all of the stone is being crushed.

  “This quarry is equipped with a crushing plant, having a No. 6 Gates crusher, bucket elevator and screen. Steam drills are used. The product consists of what is known locally as one and one-half inch macadam binder, toothing and dust. The binder is crushed stone which has a diameter of from one-half to three-fourths of an inch. Toothing is crushed stone about the size of a kernel of corn. Dust is the finest product which comes from the crusher. Eighty-five men are employed.

  “The quarry between Euclid and Garfield avenues has a west face about 450 feet long and has been worked into the hill about 200 feet. It has been condemned for park purposes and will be abandoned within a year. The same rock is quarried as at Highland avenue. The stone from the lower five feet is used for rubble, while that from the upper twenty-five feet is used almost exclusively for crushing. The stripping consists of from six to seven feet of clay, which increases in thickness as the quarry is worked to the east.

  “This quarry is equipped with No. 1 and No. 4 Gates crushers, having a combined capacity of 200 yards per day. About fifty men are employed.”

• Kansas City, Missouri - G. Miller’s Stone Quarry, located at 36th & Hardesty Streets (from “Notes on The Clays and Building Stones of Certain Western Central Counties Tributary to Kansas City,” by G. E. Ladd, Assistant Geologist, in Bulletin No. 5, Geological Survey of Missouri, Jefferson City, July 1891)
• Kansas City, Missouri (?) - the Missouri Valley Cut-Stone Works (from Stone: An Illustrated Magazine, January 1898, Vol. XVI., No. 2, pp. 298)

  Notes From Quarry and Shop: “A. C. Brandon has recently purchased the Missouri Valley Cut-Stone Works, Twenty-third and Central streets, Kansas City, and will start them in the spring (1898). He will make needed improvements in the equipment.”

• Kansas City, Missouri - W. H. Mitchel Stone Quarry, located at 27th & Hardesty Streets (from “Notes on The Clays and Building Stones of Certain Western Central Counties Tributary to Kansas City,” by G. E. Ladd, Assistant Geologist, in Bulletin No. 5, Geological Survey of Missouri, Jefferson City, July 1891)
• Kansas City, Missouri - P. Mugan’s Stone Quarry, located at 26th & Grand Avenue (from “Notes on The Clays and Building Stones of Certain Western Central Counties Tributary to Kansas City,” by G. E. Ladd, Assistant Geologist, in Bulletin No. 5, Geological Survey of Missouri, Jefferson City, July 1891)
• Kansas City, Missouri - M. Mutter’s Stone Quarry, W. Bluff, located at 22nd Street (from “Notes on The Clays and Building Stones of Certain Western Central Counties Tributary to Kansas City,” by G. E. Ladd, Assistant Geologist, in Bulletin No. 5, Geological Survey of Missouri, Jefferson City, July 1891)
• Kansas City, Missouri - R. Nelson’s Stone Quarry, west of Pullman, located about 32nd Street (from “Notes on The Clays and Building Stones of Certain Western Central Counties Tributary to Kansas City,” by G. E. Ladd, Assistant Geologist, in Bulletin No. 5, Geological Survey of Missouri, Jefferson City, July 1891)
• Kansas City, Missouri - the Oberdorff Stone Quarry, Madison Avenue, located at 30th-31st Streets (from “Notes on The Clays and Building Stones of Certain Western Central Counties Tributary to Kansas City,” by G. E. Ladd, Assistant Geologist, in Bulletin No. 5, Geological Survey of Missouri, Jefferson City, July 1891)
• Kansas City, Missouri - the Ozark Stone & Lime Co. Quarry (listed in The Mine, Quarry and Metallurgical Record of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, The Mine and Quarry News Bureau, Chicago, Ill., 1897)
• Kansas City, Missouri - the Overly Stone Quarry, located at Agness Avenue, Norledge Place (from “Notes on The Clays and Building Stones of Certain Western Central Counties Tributary to Kansas City,” by G. E. Ladd, Assistant Geologist, in Bulletin No. 5, Geological Survey of Missouri, Jefferson City, July 1891)
• Kansas City, Missouri - the Owens Quarry (Marble/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 owned by Robert Owens, and leased by Mr. J. A. Cogan of Weir City, Kansas, is located at 27th and Tapping streets. The quarry has a face 500 feet long and has been worked into the hill about 100 feet. The ‘building stone’ ledge which is quarried at this place has the same general characteristics as the quarries previously described.”

• Kansas City, Missouri – the Ozark Stone and Lime Co. (from Stone: An Illustrated Magazine, March 1897, Vo.. XIV, No. 4, “Notes from Quarry and Shop” section, pp. 426)

  “Wanted. – Correspondence with competent, practical quarryman, who understands modern machinery. State experience. Address Ozark Stone and Lime Co., 616 Wyandotte street, Kansas, City, Mo.”

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