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points in Missouri. From the Carthage quarries many thousands of dollars' wort' 
of stone are shipped into Kansas, all of which might he supplied from the Kand 
stone if quarries were worked as extensively as might be done. The quarries i 
Galena are operated to supply local demand, and that only for foundation materia 
in buildings, although considerable dimension stone is shipped from Carthage int< 
( ralena for the larger buildings. 
Years ago this same stone was quarried at Galena, at Lowell, and elsewhere for th 
production of lime. It is so abundant in quantity and so easily accessible along th 
hillsides that it is a great wonder more limekilns are not in operation. The same 
rock is quarried at different places in Missouri and burnt into lime, producing lime 
of a good quality, but no better than might be obtained from Kansas quarries. 
Analyses of Missi.ssij/jiian limestones from Kansas. 
Silica (Si0 2 ) 
Alumina ( A1 2 0J 
Iron oxide ( Fe 2 3 ) 
Lime carbonate (CaC0 3 ) 
Magnesium carbonate (MgC0 3 ) 
0.32 
.17 
.20 
98.66 
.73 
« 8. 00 
07. 32 
.80 
« Probably erroneous. 
1. Quarry on Short ("reek, near Spring River, Cherokee County. ' L. G. Eakins, analyst. Bull. U. S« 
Geol. Survey No. 78, \>. 125. 
2. Galena, Cherokee County. Mineral Resources of Kansas, 1897, p. 7s. 
PENNSYLVANIA ( U COAL MEASURES") LIMESTONES. 
The Coal Measures rocks of Kansas covers the three eastern tiers oi 
counties and parts of the counties in the fourth tier. Though macU 
up mostly of shales and sandstones, the series includes a number ol 
beds of limestone. These limestones are of importance as Portland 
cement materials because of their usual purity, their proximit} T t< 
satisfactory shales and to transportation routes and, above all, becaui 
they occur, in many places in Kansas, in the vicinity of natural-gi 
fields. 
Haworth describes the Coal Measures limestones as follows:" 
To the northwest of Cherokee County many local quarries in heavy limeston 
formations have been operated, some of which are still operated in an irreguk 
manner. The most extensive of these is the quarry at Iola, which has produce 
large quantities of dimension stone and sawed flagstone tor local trade and for shij 
ment to other points. The limestone at Iola exists in a layer nearly 40 feet thiej 
from which dimension blocks of any size or proportion desirable can be obtained. 
Still farther to the northwest the next quarries are those along the banks of tl 
Kansas River west of Kansas City, from which large quantities of stone are taken f< 
ballast and for macadamizing streets. Near Kansas City a deposit of fragmentai J 
material exists, from which large quantities have been shipped tor making sidewalk 
macadamizing streets, and similar purposes. 
a Mineral Resources of Kansas, 1897, p. 74-75. 
