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Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la m^thode. rrata jelure. 1 2 3 32X 1 2 3 4 5 6 tf OF THE mn larbte [LIMITED.] any, WITH A DESCRIPTION h OF THE ^'X4''«5SSaOSi5S5iSi»'5S!!\TOa»rSv'JW!»* \KR*Rj;i w'cSSSS at purity of the marble might be inferred; bnt further, I hive to-day made a test of two samples, from which you (^an safely say the amount of Carbonate of lim.' in tlu marble must be near- ly 100 per cent." Profes.sor Hitchcock, State Q-eolojiist for Maine and New Hampshire, in his report uprm the Vermont marble, its purity, nature of coloring matter, and its ability to withstand exposure, said "Hind two principal varieties — 1st, the Hght clouded nearly whit • ; 2nd, thi^ dark striped and mottled stone, to which the name Cohrmbian marble is usually distinctively applied. On consulting the careful analyses of these two varieties, by Mr.Penfield of the Yale College Scientific School, it appears that the darker variety is the purest, containing 98.37 pe?* cent, of Carbonate of Ijime, while the light clouded stone carries two per cent, less of the same material, or 96.37 per cent. These are therefore remarkably pure marbles. The other in- V .: 6 griuli.'iit-! or imn.iiitios jir > i\o\a cmm-n-m in nil th? murhii's of Wi'stcr.i VeiMiuiit, vi-;;,s)in' Kilicti, m littl./ Cai'b'Jiiiit.; of Mi^'i'-h. ;in I f vu* v-i of M 'L:.lli<' C' trb'T'i' nlcs. It is dnibU'ill if luiy marb!- is cV.-r ;ib; )lai 'ly di'stiiuvo of iniJii'iicsiij. and it is cu'tiniily iif>l MiilU-'icnlly Hbunduiit to iiij;ir;' the .souiidiit'ws of th ' stoiic. Castoin- VTA ui\' apt to cnqiiir;' about iron, iii'uiiini'' wheth'-'r there' in tiny 8ulphnr.'t of iron o:* py..'it -.s ])r-.?,s.uit, biM.'iiiUh'.; this mineral readily d 'composes, leavinjLT tli" stain of iron rust or oxirlc This compound i« not i)r'S"nt at all. Ther.' is thereibri! no impurity jjres'ent which will injure the quality of th.' wtone. ...,., The Analyse!>< d 'uionsirate th ;l the color is [7rodu(.'ed by Lrraphit ', or pure carbon— » I Hubstance in'Mpable of de.,'omposition by atmospheric aq-enta in any climi'.e/' ...-,- i- Professor llittdicock's report^ from which the abov ' eX- traet i.-t tak ')», Was forward 'A to Prolessor How, who, af- ter perusing' it, wrote again us follows: April .'iOth, tSTP. DkaR SriT,— d have read Prof'ss'or llitr-h-o dv's lH:er (rt'tnrned; .-'.nd what h ' s.iys of Vermont murble is ahno-it precisely what could b^ said of Mii'ble Mountain. A-; I said b d'orc, take the analysis of the lira 'stonc as an iiuf 'x: of the purity of the marbl >, I h iVe made no (jU'iniit (tii'e analysis of the marble, but, as I tfdd you, from exyTL'ri meiivs lately made, you are saf' in statini^' that th'MV in close upon 1), and the same is the case with th > sili noa- residu '. wai-h is probably what Professor Hitchcock calls '"milieu", I hare made a direct test fu' raairnesia Carbonate sinc,^ my exp.u'imi'Uts mentioned in Postal Card, and i Hiid there is, as I said, very little, as would be inferred from analysis of Limestone." ; r. V (Sig-ned) H. How, . ■' ' * . . • Prof. Chemistry, Kiufjs College, Wind -tor i \ ^ A \ Til \hv GonciJil Miiiiiii>- K(>-|,crt, for ^9^^^, Umvy TV»ol(\ 1">!^( iidiiiL;' llic npniis ;m(l the ciihiryn iiiciit ol' the St. r<'tcr\s Ciiiinl, Siiiiiplc lllofks ol" the ^^■hit<' mul vnrious ((ihir d iii;;r))l<\s «(iit Ikiu lh( so (|iinrii( f< lolbc Tf ii1< iiir.l llxliiltiticni vv«'r«3 iinuli jidmircd. ^1 he l hil! of solid marble, Ncverai hundreds of jeei hiuh, rises Ivoni the ;diore of the Bra8 d'Or Lake, with deep water within a hundr(>d feet. A tunnel ha.s })eeii driven throuuh the !)roken and weatherrd b;'ds on tlie slope of th" hill into a rent whi<'h, when <'learMl of the chiy which now lill.s it, ]-)resents an ( xtt lub d face (d" marble unl)rrk( n by host. 'I'he (d«'ava«>-e pJanes of the beds jire wide apart, and lie ])ar;illei to the mountain ranii'e and shore, so that Iny^o blocks can b* economically extr'cted removed throuo-h the tunnel, and by a s:'lf-ai tin*i' incline, lowered to the mill, there to b ' cut into slabs for shipment." Ill the 1870 U port of Explorations and Survevs in Cape Breton of H. Metch.-r, IJ. A., addressed to A. U. C. Selwyn. F. li. S., ICr S., Director of the Oeolegieal Survey of Caniida, th.> followini'- statemv.iit occurs : "The finest deposit of workable marble yet devidoped in Nova Scotia is th it of Marl)le or N^rth '.\lount;iin, on the West Bay of the Bras d'Or r^ak(\ \*iicli was discover- ed by Mr. N."J. Brown in 1868, but has attract d hss at- tention than it desi'rves, owiiio;' to the dillieulri.'s wdiicn b:'set a new eiit, rpris,*; the o 'oupation of the Canadian market by other quarries more favora})ly sitiiat( d. and the exclusion of Canadian marble from the Uiiit(d States by a duty. Still, there can be little dou})t that this will ultimately become a source of profit to its owners. 8 Til Viirioty ofcolor and tint this ro k is lik,» lh<^ ("hrv!^'' : illino limcbton » of th<' G-.'oryf's Uivt^r series, of which it Icrms u ]).irt ; hnl it contaiiiH littler or no tulniixturi' oi'thi* t'or.'i,<,'-n iniiicnils that els 'wheic render them nnllt tor lis.', its more uniiorm in texture and is in iin^qualled ubmi' dance. • Its texture and quality are eXeelleiit; it works freely, takes a j^-ood polish, stands the weather Well, !»nd in eHp.H'ially udapli'd lor moaumentH and ornamental work. Several ((uanies have b/eii opened. Tin? G-rand Quarry, about lour hundred and iii'ty feet aboVi? the lak ', and three hundred yards from deep water, is in the centre of th ' Very b ».st pure white and vari* ijs'at'd rock Avhieh is lonnd over about two or three hundred acres, and exposed in the (juarry to a hi^ii^ht of sixty IV'et. . , . A b 'd of yellowish, cruml)ling Kock eight f.'ot thick, ovjrlies the marble, and gr 'atly f.tcilitates its removal. At th^ ni>per part of the face the mar})le is very mu'h })rok Ml, but the cracks diminish in numb t, in extent and depth, and for some distanci* around th'* tunnel the mar- ble i;i white, 8olid and free fiom Haws; and as th" bed.s here tire from four to live f.n't thick, immense blocks van b ' r ^noved. Another tunnel has been driven from a i)oint; halfway between the first tunnel and the shorts to ytriki» th(i Wail Rice 170 ieet below the surfar-e where the marble is clear white and free from ilavvs. The facilities for min- iiig-, drj.iuaj^'.^ and shipment could hardly be surpuss.'d." WHAT PUACTICAI, MEN HXY, - ViiTimr the year 1876 the marble quarries were visited by Mr. U. M. Underbill, of West Itutlaiid, Vermont. ~ii fp-ntleman having large cxperie]ice in working maibk? quarries, and who wivs at that time travelling Ag'iit for one of the West Rutland Marble Companies, and the fol- lowing extracts from letters written by him afterwards will convey a sood idea of his opinions as to th»' extent and value of the marble deposits at Marble Mountain, In a letter addressed to the hite George A, Sanford, MLirble Worker, Halifax, N. S., he said — ^"1 am once more 9 nt 1iom'\ nnd T promis.'d to writo to yon and lot yon know what I lound nt Cape IJn'ton, 1 Iband si liiru^o d('i)()sit ol' white inarhK'. Shonld tliink two thiid.s of the d.'posit ii valnable buildiiiLf marhliv The texturt' is us coarwe hH conimon "iTanitc, and white, with clouds of nice l)lue, spots nicely blend. 'd, sutficient to break the sameness that all white would produce. The balance ol' the de})osit is white, of line color, strong-ly resembling "thi' best Italian and nearly as fine ... ... Hand is readily obtaincnl on the beach. The water is deep enough for large vessels, and Irom the Ihas d'Or they can g. to any part of the world. I have all conlidence in the marble." And in a letter to Mr. Brown, dated "West Rutland, March 16th, 1877. he wrote: "I have been engaged in (jnarrying marble for over thirty years. I may say the superintending of the quarrying of marble has been my business alto^'-ether till of late. I have seen most of the ii.arble deposits in the States, but do not know of any to compare, either in variety or extent, with that of Marble Mountain, West Bay, Cape Breton. In my travels last summer I showed your marble sam- ples to many marble dealers ; they w^ould scarcely credit the facts when I described to them your quarries, being so dry and in the side of the mountain, and so near the harbor. 1 know of no place where there are such facili- ties to do an immense business in quarrying and ship- ping marble, and also sawing dimension stock on the place,as you have the proper sand and /we/, both of w^hich we have to procure at a distance at considerable outlay. . . . With right management I do not see why, in a very short tim s your enterprise w^ould not be one of the biggest things out, as it is quite evident the supply is quite inex- h-.iustible. and the more marble taken away, the more valuable wnll become the quarry." In another letter Mr Underhill refers again to the sand. "With your sand you would be able to saw more than we (in West Rutland) can with ours, (say 6 to our 4.) There is no place of my acquaintance where there is every advantage you have." . 10 Snmplos of thr inarbli's \wro siibmittiHl to pra-tiral murhlo workers wilh ilic lollDwing- results: Messrs. C4, W. IJoss & Co., ol" IMctou. N. S., write :— ''Wt' are very much i)lensed with its texture aiul ([uali- ty. It works as freely as the best Italian inarl)h\ and we believe it will be mor.> dura])le for outside work, It takes as li'ood a [)olish as any marble we ever used. The Ver- mont is not 11 cireunistanee to it.'' Mr. Sanlbrd, Marble AVorker, Halifax, N. S., writes : — '"I have Vi'ry i>reut })leasun> in pronouneini;- its (juality as a weather stone Tey vtMned marble, ','lt was a mere question of producinu" it at a mod- erate cost and in quantity. The quality was good." Professor Tennant, Mineralogist to Her Majesty, exam- ined specimens sent to him, spoke very <»ncouragingly, and said that "it was a question merely of what you coidd produce it for and at what rate it could ]>e sold; if cheaper, thai'i other marbles ol the same quality, sm^eess was sure." Mr. Lomae, of the Marble Works, 28 King St. and St. Helen St., l)er])y, said: "The white marble would work well, and if sold low no doubt a large sale could be made, as the (V)nsumption of Marble is very great, and is constantly increasing." Mr. liurley, Foreman of the Hopton Wood Stone Qupi- ries, Derby, "Approved of all the samples as worthy of the attention of the trade, ii cheap." In answer to the question whether the white marble would take if it could \ s. ( N. 11 he sold ;it 4>*. to '»•. siorliiiii* [> n* ('ul)ir foot, ho stiid "it would ; ii cli,';:}) white in:',rl)K' would sell as w<>ll ior in;intl('pi(M'('s, :nid all sorts of work as tlic Italian, hut ii' statu. ;ry w m',* to h.> tried ata h)\ver price th:ui the Italian, it wouiil sell splendidly." ^I'-. Soui(>rs, of liakewell, approved of the samples, if oil', red :;t a low price, as th 're is no sU''h thiuii; us white mar})le at less than t's. to l"2s. per cnhic foot, in J^ondon or Liverpool." Mr. Ivedfern of Ash ford, expressed himself favorably as to 1 lie while ifsoldat 4s. to ;')>•. p'.'r euhi' fool ; andhehev- ed ih.il it would iind a ready sale. Mr TwiuCLf <>f the Ranu> i>la('e said theriM'ould !)»' no doulit that such niarhle as the white and the ixvvy would sell readily. IJoth these men ari' praeti^al Marble AV^irkers on a large scale, both in native and foreign marbles. Thus (Geologists, prac^tical Chemists, practical En- gineers, practical (Quarry Workers aiul practical Marble Workers of extensive experience, have coiu-urri d in af- lirining the great (juantily, the good quality and the ac- cessibility of these marbles. AV«* may also add th" o]unions express(^d ]>v a (l»'utle- m.ui from Ni'W York, — a businessman of large and vari. d cxn ri'Mid", although imt in the line of M;;r))les — who visited tlie quarrtes in August, IShT, in com[>any with one oftht' present proprielnrs In order tliat ho would be .ir. c to lorm an w//^/V/,s.svv/ opinion of the exlt^nt and value nl til ' ))]<)i)eriv. tlie iestimoiiV ji'iven bv otliers who had vi^iti'd M;;i))le Mount;;in was purposely wilhln>ld fnun him, and m hi;* letter writt(>n on l^Tlh August, 18d if this has already been done so mu ;h the better. The opportunity which I had of makinf^ a superficial examination of the deposit, could not well be improved upon, we havin^ •H-^'" * M