MINERAL RESOURCES OF ALABAMA. 



tnejCivil^war marble was quarried and worked into monuments 

 chierly. vmce the war very little has been done in this line. 

 rqu^^sJvei^nSjS'ynk to any considerable depth (25 feet) 

 T .anv' of them has gone below the reach of 



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into a nur 



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iere is now in J5irmmgna] 

 ite marble, 30 feet in.length anc 



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comnosition mosFof tnis mar 

 TB srtiDi 3nWQaq ^iej fn i 

 a it nas oeerj 



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fongfthe^ajf/^rn loot o 



s presented by the Masons 

 onument Society in 1851 to 

 tie quality of the marble 

 fo^have come from Italy. 

 scuJJDtor Moretti, who has 

 colossus, "Vulcan," 

 fle from Talladega, 

 i of statuary which 



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, 9 ffiSf{? 



a block of 

 ^ feet thick. 



one 



n^gTU-ri/yn orlj lol^v^rijjo^ 

 e lalfaaega mountain . ran] 



s whene a. crystalline dolomite smj " ^' 

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tr 

 10 



rgj two olac 



m Uiil^"^un^c*'^e;i^rtk$-^I"m^U00! 



bn.6 ttWiBtn ..jit jtoar 

 and in 



Paint Creek. The other locality is near Elder postoftice, 

 county. Nothing has been done at either of these localities in 

 the way of developing the stone. 



Opsffira^thejE, is 

 wl 



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. ... ..JOOfe YSUDSV 



rin^jftmW 1 

 in lime-burm^ 



" w ^ v .^&^gllW 1 im i 8wnx n v 2B ja^ 



lor ahd .granular texture, has. n 

 ?. mf ipinw rno^f ^niBuo UJQT:* 

 o| talc also of ,wnite color, w 



with its'iis^ tor 'ornamental 1 piirpc 



-r -- - <i f i - -r^ ^??>fiwJio lonmrin K if-. .-Affyi f F 



It is probable that some of the ledges are free from tnis del 



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r southeast m Lee county, near C 



- - -~v*- ,,2pm>T oy/j-.To SIB ^mjaJfirA .10 23id"im srll 



a quarry in" white crystalline granular dolomite, wnid} has been 



worked for a -Sfreat many years ior maKins;' lime. ' jfnis is 

 MKir K rfi .Yirasni ir/Doo -iM^ymuA 'nmniiu fb ^twuDiz^ri 3rl 

 ks and quarry, - This same deposit Has 1 

 r 9117 IO.TISDJCU ira\i^ am ^HOIB \Kp5v v/oi 

 nontneast and squtnwest of 



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