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Kansas City, Missouri – the Pullman Stone Quarry (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)
“The Reardon quarry, which is owned and operated by Michael Reardon, is located at 49th and Main streets. This quarry has a north and east face which together are about 625 feet long. The stripping consists of an average of seventeen and one-half feet of loess. The building stone ledge which is worked at this quarry has a vertical face of nine feet. The lower two feet six inches is the typical blue bed, while that above is typical of the upper portion of the ‘building stone’ ledge. The stone in the lower bed is broken with plugs and feathers into heavy rubble, while that above is broken into small dimensions. The bedding planes are irregular and wavy. The rock shows dries, along which the stone is stained yellowish red with iron oxide.
“Formerly this quarry was operated quite extensively fur curbing, but the principal output at present is heavy rubble, obtained from the lower portion of the quarry.
“Mr. Reardon owns several small openings west of this quarry which have not been operated for some time.”
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“The quarry operated by this company is located one block north of Turner Bros. quarry, on the west side of Roanoke boulevard. A thirty-foot face of limestone is being quarried. It is all crushed at the quarry into sizes suitable for macadam, concrete and ballast.”
Theodore S. Sherman, Successor to Sherman Armstrong,
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Branch Yard: Kansas City, Mo., W. Peverley, Agent.
“This quarry, which is owned by Mr. Gates and operated by John Snell, is located at 27th street between Highland and Woodland avenues.
“It has a nine-foot vertical face which separates into the following beds:
18-20 in. - Fine grained, compact, blue limestone, containing nodules of calcite.
3 ft. 6 in. - Fine grained, compact, variegated light and dark colored limestone. Central portion contains occasional cavities filled with bitumen.
10 in. - Fine grained, gray limestone.
18 in. - Dark, bluish colored limestone. Hard and brittle breaking with a sharp fracture.
“Locally, this is known as the ‘Calico ledge.’ The stone is hard and brittle and does not work as easily as the building stone ledge. The stone has every appearance of being a good limestone for macadam.
“This quarry is worked with hand tools and only three or four men are employed.”
“This quarry, which is located at 43rd and Olive streets, is not now active. It is leased at present to Mr. Geo. Botham, who expects to operate it in the near future. The stone is obtained from the ‘building stone’ ledge, which has a north and south face 75 feet long. The stone is very similar to that at the Tanner quarries...The stripping consists of from eight to ten feet of clay and soil. A hand derrick has been used in moving the heavier blocks of stone.”
The Sutermeister Stone 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.” C. O. Sutermeister is listed as the company representative.
The A. Sutermeister Stone 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.” H. A. Sutermeister is listed as the company representative.
“James and John Sutherland, who comprise this company, operate three quarries, two of which are located on Vine street between 26th and 27th, and the third of which is located at 24th and Woodland streets. This company has made a specialty of curbing which they have produced extensively during the last fifteen years. Owing to the decreased demand for limestone curbing, these quarries are not operated very extensively for this purpose, the output being mainly rubble. The curbing which is manufactured is used mainly for repairing that which is now in use.
“The west quarry, on Vine street, has been opened practically the entire distance between 26th and 27th streets. The east quarry is near 27th street and has an east and west face of 200 feet and a north and south face of 250 feet. The strata in the west quarry dip slightly to the west, while those in the east quarry have a gentle dip to the east. The quarries have a stripping of loess of from twenty to twenty-five feet. The stone is obtained from the ‘building stone’ ledge. The lower two feet six inches consists of argillaceous, blue limestone, which splits along rather irregular stratification planes into three eight-inch beds, which are used for curbing. The lower six inches of this bed is not used for this purpose because of its extremely argillaceous nature. Coursing, range and rubble stone have been produced form these beds. The stone breaks with a sub-conchoidal fracture and works well under the hammer.
“The upper portion of the ledge consists of six and one-half to seven feet of fine grained, gray limestone. This stone is not as much decomposed as usual in this portion of the ledge. In some parts of the quarry, the beds have a thickness of twenty inches and split quite readily along thin shaly seams. Weathering has changed the color of the stone to a buff for about six inches on either side of the joints.
“The major joints strike N. 45° E. and the minor joints N. 45° W. The joints in these systems are from six to twelve feet apart. The stone used for curbing is broken with plugs and feathers at right angles to the northeast-southwest joints. The blocks are cut and dressed to the required strength and thickness.
“The quarry at 24th and Woodland streets was not being operated at the time it was examined.”
“This quarry, which is owned by William Tanner of 35th and Prospect streets and operated by P. Adams, is located on 42nd street between Olive street and Wabash avenue. It consists of two openings situated on the west side of the hill. The north opening has a face 150 feet long and the stone is obtained from the ‘building stone’ ledge. The lower two feet six inches is a sub-crystalline, bluish colored, argillaceous limestone, weathered to a buff along the jointing and bedding planes. It has been used for caps, sills and curbing. the upper portion consists of thin, roughly bedded stone which is broken into rubble. Two feet from the top of the ledge is a very good eight-inch bed. The quarry is covered with fourteen feet of stripping, consisting of eight feet of loess and six feet of bluish shale.
“The joints are from six to twenty feet apart and strike N. 45° E. and N. 45° W.
“The second opening is south of the first. The stone is obtained from the same ledge as in the first opening and is not essentially different in quality. this opening was not being worked when the quarry was examined.
“The principal product of the quarry is rough rubble stone.”
“The Thorn-Halliwell Cement Company, of Kansas City, Mo., has been succeeded by the Halliwell Cement Company, of which Walter S. Halliwell is sole owner.”
“This quarry, which is owned and operated by Turner Bros. of Kansas City, Kansas, is located at 35th and Roanoke boulevard. It has east and north faces having a combined length of 325 feet. The stone is obtained from the ‘building stone’ ledge, the upper portion of which splits along irregular bedding planes into blocks which are more solid than ordinary. The lower two and one-half feet of the blue limestone splits readily just below the middle of the bed. It is broken into large sized rubble and footing stone. It is weathered to a buff color along the jointing planes, which strike N. 40-45° E. and N. 30° W. The quarry is covered with twenty-one feet of reddish and yellowish shale.
“The equipment consists of four hand derricks and hand tools. The product of the quarry is used chiefly by the company in contract work.”
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“This quarry, which is owned and operated by F. M. Hayes and W. C. Lyle, is located at 41st and Olive streets. It was opened in 1902 on a tract of twenty-three and one-half acres of land owned by Mr. Hayes. The opening has a face fifty feet long, but it is intended to enlarge this by working along the outcrop.
“The stone is quarried chiefly from the ‘building stone’ ledge. The uppermost ledge in this quarry is twelve inches thick and separates into six-inch beds. Underneath this, the stone occurs in thin beds which are weathered along the bedding planes. The blue bed at the base of the quarry had not been developed to any extent at the time the property was inspected. The office of this company is located in Rooms 204-205 Massachusetts buildings.”
“The quarry operated by John M. walls is located on Virginia avenue between 43rd and 44th streets. It has been opened about 100 feet along the east side of the hill. The stone is similar to that in the Feebeck quarry and is covered with nine feet of clay stripping. It was not in operation when visited.”
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“(Below) are two illustrations of typical quarries in the Upper Coal Measures, at Kansas City. That of the Weston quarry shows the thin, irregular beds of stratum No. 98, and a thick, typical bluff stripping of Loess. That of the north bluff quarry illustrates well the occurrence of the limestones where interbedded with shale.”
Plate V. Fig. 1. A view of the Weston Lime quarry. Illustrating a Kansas City quarry with Loess stripping.
Plate V. Fig. 2. A view of a north bluff quarry at Kansas City. Illustrating a bluff quarry with the limestone interbedded with shale.
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