“The quarry operated by the Carthage Building Stone Co. is located a quarter of a mile west of the Spring River Stone Co’s quarry. This company has been in operation about a year.

The quarry is situated near the base of a hill which rises gradually to the north….It is expected to extend the quarry to the east so as to increase the available stone….Above the stone there is a stipping of about five feet of chert, clay and bouldery limestone.  It is expected to make another channel cut below the present floor of the quarry. This will bring the bottom of the quarry near the level of the water in Spring river.

The stone from this quarry is very similar to that quarried in other parts of the area. It is a white, coarsely crystalline limestone, and free from impurities which might result in discolorations. There are no noticeable tar seams and very little flint has been encountered.

The quarry is equipped with two Sullivan Ychannelers and a forty-ton derrick.  A large modern mill has been erected containing six gangsaws, the largest of which will take a block 16 feet 10 inches long by 9 feet high….The power to operate the plant is furnished by a 250 horse power boiler and 150 horse power engine.  A fifty ton traveling crane is used to move the stone in the cutting shed and onto the cars.”

Carthage
Building
Stone Co.
Mill

 Source: Quarrying Industry of Missouri, Vol. 2, 1904.