Stones & Quarries

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Preface.
IN this small volume an attempt has been made to place before the reader a broad general view of the stone
industry, to show what part it plays in the life of the community and to give an outline of the methods and 
machinery employed in its development.

Within the limits assigned to the books in this series it has not been possible to do more than indicate in the
briefest way the main features of this great industry and to point out some of the characters of the commodities
handled therein. There are branches of the stone industry that take so prominent a place in the activities of 
civilized nations that separate treatment is required to do them justice, thus Cement manufacture, which obtains its
raw material largely from quarries, forms the subject of a separate volume.

A certain vagueness about the natural boundaries of the subject will be observable, and such questions as "What 
is to be included in Stone?" or, "Is a stone-mine to be regarded as a quarry?" have been answered by the light of 
convenience rather than that of logic or consistency.

The author desires to express his grateful thanks to the following firms who have kindly given assistance with
illustrations: The Bramley Engineering Co., Ltd., Crosby Lockwood & Co., John Freeman & Son, Ltd., the Council 
of the Geologists' Association, Hadfields, Ltd., the Hardy Patent Pick Co., Ltd., Ruston & Hornsby, Ltd., the Sullivan
Engineering Co., and the proprietors of the journals: the British Builder, the Quarry, and the Stone Trades Journal.
J. ALLEN HOWE.
28 JERMYN STREET,
LONDON, S.W.I

CONTENTS

PREFACE
Chapter I. THE STONE INDUSTRY
Chapter II. ROCKS, STONES AND MINERALS
Chapter III. CLASSIFICATION OF STONES
TYPES OF STONE AND THEIR MODES OF OCCURRENCE
Chapter IV. LIMESTONES 
Chapter V. SANDSTONES
Chapter VI. SLATE
Chapter VII. MARBLE
Chapter VIII. GRANITES
Chapter IX. OTHER IGNEOUS ROCKS
EMPLOYMENT OF STONE
Chapter X. BUILDING AND ENGINEERING
Chapter XI. ROADS AND PAVING
Chapter XII. DECORATION AND SCULPTURE
Chapter XIII. MISCELLANEOUS USES OF STONE
Chapter XIV. QUARRYING
Chapter XV. THE PREPARATION OF STONE FOR THE MARKET
APPENDIX. LIST OF BOOKS
INDEX

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