96 SCIENTIFIC SURVEY OF ABERDEEN AND DISTRICT 
historical sights of Aberdeen, the Brig 0’ Balgownie and St. Machar’s 
Cathedral. 
The class of paper manufactured in the two huge fast-running machines 
is chiefly newsprint, of which the mill is the largest producer in Scotland. 
The Company is now incorporated in the Inveresk group of mills, 
A leading figure in the history of the Company has been Sir Frederick 
E. R. Becker, whose son-in-law, Major W. G. Moore, is now in charge 
of the mill. 
Sratistics.—To conclude this survey of paper-making in Aberdeen, 
the significance of the place it holds may be inferred from the following 
figures, which, however, are merely a rough estimate : 
Capital employed . } j ; . £2,000,000 
Number of machines : : ; eke °) 
Annual output . ; : ; . 60,000 tons 
Value of output per annun E : . £2,000,000 
Persons employed . t : ; - 3,500 
Wages, etc., disbursed per annu j . £400,000 
XVI. 
ABERDEEN GRANITE INDUSTRY 
BY 
W. D. ESSLEMONT, M.A., B.L. 
Ons of the most important industries of the City and County of Aberdeen 
is the quarrying and manipulation of granite. An inexhaustible supply 
of granite of unsurpassed durability and beauty forms the chief source 
of mineral wealth of the district. 
Many quarries have from time to time been worked in the district. 
In the vicinity of the city the principal quarries at present in operation 
include Rubislaw, Sclattie and Persley, which yield a grey stone. 
Peterhead granite, quarried in the immediate neighbourhood of that 
town, is mostly of a red colour. In the upper reaches of the Don are 
situated Kemnay, Tom’s Forest and Corennie quarries; the typical 
colour of their granites is grey, with the exception of the Corennie stone, 
which is mostly pink. Rubislaw and Kemnay quarries are the two largest 
in the United Kingdom. 
Aberdeenshire granite has been used for building material for more 
than 300 years, the blocks strewn about the surface being utilised for this 
purpose in the earlier days, but quarrying in the modern sense was not 
begun till the middle of the eighteenth century, and it was a long time 
before methods were devised to secure a plentiful supply of stone. 
