Quarries in Missouri & Quarry Links, Photographs, and Articles
St. Louis – Lohrum thru Ludlow-Saylor

• St. Louis City, Missouri - John C. Lohrum Limestone Quarry located near the foot of Cahokia Street (Limestone) (from “The Clay, Stone, Lime and Sand Industries of St. Louis City and County,” by G. E. Ladd, Assistant Geologist, in Geological Survey of Missouri, Bulletin No. 3, Supplement, Missouri, December 1890.)

  Location and product.

  “Lohrum, John C. (L, 17): - Mr. Lohrum has a quarry, situated in the face of the Mississippi river bluff, near the foot of Cahokia street, and on the Iron Mountain and Southern railway. The chief product is macadam and building stone; but some paving and dimension stone is quarried. The section here is about like that given below, at Martin Lorentz’ quarry,* although it is a little higher in the series, and a few different ledges come in at the base. The quarry has a face of three hundred feet in length. It was opened in 1883.

  (* See the entry: “St. Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri - the Martin Lorentz Quarry.”) ”

• St. Louis, Missouri - the Lohrum 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 John C. Lohrum and operated by John A. Lohrum, is located at the foot of Osage street. It is situated on the bluff just west of the Iron Mountain railroad. The following is a description of the beds from top to bottom:

  10 ft. - Decomposed, gray limestone.

  5 ft. - Compact, white limestone in beds from six to twelve inches in thickness. This and the ledge above do not occur at the south end of the quarry.

  7 ft. - Blue limestone. Splits two feet from the bottom, along a thin bed of flint. Building stone is obtained from this ledge.

  4 ft. - Flinty, gray limestone. Used for crushing.

  2 ft. 6 in. - Solid bed of limestone, used for building.

  5 ft. - Compact, gray limestone, used for building.

  6 in. - Fine grained, bluish limestone.

  4 ft. - Finely crystalline, blue limestone. Consists of a two foot bed and four six inch beds.

  3 ft. - Flinty, white limestone, used for crushing.

  12 ft. - Thinly bedded, shelly, gray limestone, used for crushing.

  Plate XXXV. Fig. 2. St. Louis Limestone. J. A. Lohrum quarry, illustrating typical bluff quarry.

  “This quarry is covered with very heavy stripping, which is increasing as the work is extended to the west. Most of the stone is now crushed for macadam, although a number of the beds make very good rubble.

  “The quarry is equipped with a No. 4 crusher and accessories, a steam drill, engine and boiler. Four sizes of crushed stone are manufactured, three inch, one and one-half inch, screenings and dust. The dust is used in the construction of asphalt pavements. Considerable of the crushed stone has been shipped to Arkansas.”

• St. Louis City, Missouri - Martin Lorentz Limestone Quarry located near Cahokia Street (Limestone) (from “The Clay, Stone, Lime and Sand Industries of St. Louis City and County,” by G. E. Ladd, Assistant Geologist, in Geological Survey of Missouri, Bulletin No. 3, Supplement, Missouri, December 1890.)

  Location.

  “Lorentz, Martin (L, 17): - This quarry is situated by the side of the Iron Mountain & Southern railway track, near Cahokia street. It is one of the series of quarries which are worked in the face of the Mississippi river bluffs, and may be seen in the illustration on page 41 (see below). The principal product is building stone and macadam. The following section,* in descending series, shows the character of the material used: -

  (* Page 54 footnote: For the results of analyses of average samples of the beds of this section, see page 76. - See table below.)

  Martin Lorentz’ Quarry, St. Louis Limestone.

  Bluff Quarries on the Mississippi River. Near the foot of Cahokia Street. Illustrating a bluff quarry, in distinction to a sunken quarry. The Loess stripping, the ledges of the limestone, and the manner of quarrying are also shown.

  Section.

  1. Loess, the stripping - 10-30 feet.
  2. Drift of pebbles - 1 foot.
  3. Limestone (Analysis No. 20), light gray, darker towards top, fine grained - 1 foot, 6 inches.
  4. Limestone (Analysis No. 21), like No. 3 - 1 foot, 10 inches.
  5. Limestone (Analysis No. 22), light, yellow and gray, soft - 8 inches.
  6. Limestone (Analysis No. 23), light and dark gray, varying texture, compact, brittle, hard - 2 feet, 10 inches.
  7. Limestone (Analysis No. 24), gray, fine grained, jointed - 2 feet, 6 inches.
  8. Limestone (Analysis No. 25), light gray, fine grained, color and texture somewhat variable - 2 feet 6 inches.
  9. Limestone (Analysis No. 26), dull gray to yellowish, harder towards base - 4 feet, 2 inches.
  10. Limestone (Analysis No. 27), brownish and gray, coarse grained, shaly near top, two layers varying in thickness - 3 feet.
  11. Limestone (Analysis No. 28), like No. 10 - 2 feet, 4 inches.
  12. Limestone (Analysis NO. 29), dull gray, very fine grained - 5 inches.
  13. Limestone (Analysis No. 30,), drab, hard, brittle, lithographic - 11 inches.
  14. Shale - 1 inch.
  15. Limestone (Analysis No. 31), gray, hard - 9 inches.
  16. Limestone (Analysis No. 32), light drab, with dark bands - 1 foot, 10 inches.
  17. Limestone (Analysis No. 33), dark gray, carries layer of chert - 3 feet, 11 inches.
  18. Limestone (Analysis No. 34), light drab, fine grained, layer of chert three feet from base varying in thickness - 8 feet, 2 inches.
  19. Limestone (Analysis No. 35), dark gray, geodes, lined with calcite crystals - 8 inches.
  20. Limestone (Analysis No. 36), light gray, soft chert, concretions near top - 2 feet.
  21. Limestone (Analysis No. 37), gray, coarse grained - 1 foot, 10 inches.
  22. Limestone (Analysis No. 38), like last, but poorer quality - 10 inches.
  23. Limestone (Analysis No. 39), dark gray to brownish, lower sixteen inches cherty - 4 feet.
  24. Limestone (Analysis No. 40), brown, otherwise like No. 23 - 3 feet, 9 inches.
  25. Limestone (Analysis No. 41), drab, hard, brittle, fine grained, lithographic - 1 foot, 6 inches.
  26. Limestone (Analysis No. 42), dark gray, coarse grained, hard, in three ledges - 3 feet, 4 inches.

  Total thickness of rock - 56 feet, 4 inches.”

• St. Louis, Missouri - Lorenzon & Son Granite and Marble, St. Louis, MO. (colorized postcard photograph; early 1900s; unmailed)

  

• St. Louis, Missouri – Ludlow Saylor, Wire Co. (Cemetery Fences) (The following advertisement is from The Monumental News, August, 1895, Vol. 7, No. 8, Chicago, Illinois, pp. 525.)

  

  Ludlow Saylor Wire Co., St. Louis, MO.

  Cemetery Fences of Wrought Iron and Wire. - Write for Catalogue. Ludlow Saylor Wire Co.

  • St. Louis, Missouri - the Ludlow-Saylor Wire Company (Advertisement) (from Mines and Minerals, A Mining and Metallurgical Journal, June 1902, Vol. XXII, No. 11, 00 34)

    

    The “Perfect” Double Crimped Wire Cloth - Miners’ Candlesticks - Mining Screens

    The Ludlow-Saylor Wire Company, St. Louis

    The Mine & Smelter Supply Co., Denver, Co., and Salt Lake City, Utah, State Agents.

  • St. Louis, Missouri - the Ludlow-Saylor Wire Co. (Advertisement) (from Monumental News: Marble, Granite, Stone, Bronze Sculpture, September 1914, Vol. XXXVI, No. 9, pp. 626)

    

    The Ludlow-Saylor Wire Co., St. Louis

    Iron Fencing, Reservoir Vases, Settees, etc.

    General Offices and Plant: St. Louis, Missouri

[Top of Page]

Commercial use of material within this site is strictly prohibited. It is not to be captured, reworked, and placed inside another web site ©. All rights reserved. Peggy B. and George (Pat) Perazzo.