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occur. In the north part of quarry there is a band of dark knots. 
from 5 to 25 feet wide, with a N. 10° E. course, but the rest of 
the quarry is free from knots. The glaciated surfaces and the sheet 
surfaces are free from sap except near the headings, where it extends 
for 6 inches from each sheet and joint face. The granite is here 
under compressive strain, for the cores between the contiguous borings 
made in channeling become crushed, and on two occasions spontane- 
ous vertical east- west fractures 40 feet long occurred through a sheet 
4 feet G inches thick, and diagonal to two rectangular " channels." 
The plant consists of 3 derricks, operated by 1 engine (Ledgerwood 
hoist, triple drum) ; 1 compressor (capacity 180 cubic feet of air per 
minute), driven by a 30-horsepOwer Westinghouse electric motor; 4 
Pig. 21. — Structure :ii Tayntor (Melvin) quarry, near Hallowell. 
steam drills; 1 pneumatic plug drill ; 1 surf acer; 1 polisher; 9 pneu- 
matic hand tools, and 2 steam pumps. New machinery is to be put 
into the new building, which is in process of construction. 
Transportation is by cartage, If miles to the cutting shed and one- 
fourth mile farther to wharf or railroad. The company's new works 
will have a dock at one end and railroad at the other. 
The product is used for monumental work. Specimen monuments : 
The General Slocum monument at Gettysburg, Pa. ; the State of 
Maine monument at Andersonville, Va. ; the New York State monu- 
ment at Lookout Mountain (Craven House), Tennessee; the soldiers' 
monument at Pittsfielcl, Me.; the Dunlap mausoleum (Corinthian 
style, 16 by 28 feet) ; and the Ziegler mausoleum (Grecian Doric style, 
25 by 34 feet, after the temple at Paestum), both at Woodlawn Ceme- 
tery, New York. Contracts in 1905 : The General Miles mausoleum 
at Arlington, Va., and the Latham mausoleum at Hopkinsville, Ky. 
About 100,000 paving blocks are made annually from waste and 
thin sheets. 
