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THE GRANITES OF MAINE. 
The plant consists of 3 derricks, worked by oxen, and 2 steam 
polishers. 
Transportation is by cartage of about 300 feet from the lower 
quarry, and of possibly 800 to 1,000 feet from the upper one, to the 
wharf in Muscongus Bay. 
The product is now used exclusively for monuments, and finds a 
market in New York, Pennsylvania, and the West. The waste goes 
into paving blocks. 
Specimen monuments: The die of the Maine monument at AnderJ 
sonville, Ga. ; the base and die of the General Sheridan monument in 
the National Cemetery at Arlington. Ya. 
In 1905 finished monuments were being sent to New York, where 
the lettering was added. 
Fig. 28. Structure al Round Pond diorite quarry, Bristol. 
The Waldoboro quarry is in the town of Waldoboro, \\ miles north 
of Waldoboro village, on the Boston and Maine Railroad. Operator, 
Booth Brothers & Hurricane Isle Granite Company, 207 Broadway. 
New York, and Rockland, Me. 
The granite (specimen 109, a) is a muscovite-biotite granite ol 
medium-gray shade (a trifle darker than Hallowell granite, and still 
darker than North day granite) and of fine (inclining to medium) 
even-grained texture, some of the feldspars measuring up to one 
fourth inch, but the particles generally ranging from 0.30 to 2.5( 
mm. in diameter. It consists, in descending order of abundance, o: 
a whitish translucent potash feldspar (orthoclase and microcline) 
smoky quartz, whitish sodadime feldspar (oligoclase), white micj 
(muscovite), and black mica (biotite), with accessory garnet. Th 
feldspars are often intergrown with quartz in particles that are cir j 
cular in cross-section. Some of the mica plates are bent, indicating | 
slight (secondary) motion. Mr. -PI C. Sullivan, of the United State;; 
