“ This quarry…was opened in 1895 by W. B. Myers who later sold it to the Carthage Consolidated Quarry Co.  It has not been worked since 1900.

This quarry has a south and east face, the former of which is 300 feet and the latter 200 feet long.

Clay pockets occur in the stone and tar seams are very abundant.  These, together with the abundant large suture joints, is claimed to have been the reason for the abandonment of the quarry.

The quarry is equipped with a mill containing two gang-saws, a large traveling crane, an engine and a boiler.

Ten thousand cubic feet of stone was quarried in 1900.”

A typical Carthage quarry

Source:  Quarrying Industry of Missouri, Vol. 2, 1904, The State of Missouri, Williams, 1904.