“The company has two separate quarries, each of which is equipped with a mill.  Both mills are in operation, but the stone is being obtained exclusively from the west quarry.  The company owns twenty-six acres of land, all of which is underlain with stone. The company was organized in 1884 and has been in operation continuously since that time.

The stone is typical limestone of this area, being coarsely crystalline and having a slightly bluish light gray color.  It contains suture joints from two to fifteen inches apart and varying in size from a fraction of an inch to three inches in depth….

The mills at both the east and west quarries are equipped with modern machinery for handling, sawing and dressing the stone.  The east mill is equipped with gang saws, a traveling crane, engines, boilers and other necessary machinery.  The west quarry is equipped with an engine, boiler, gang saws, rip saws, derricks, hoists, etc.  The quarry is equipped with channelers, derricks and such other machinery as is necessary to remove the stone.

This company has a mill in St. Louis, at which much of the stone used in that city is cut and dressed”

Source: Quarrying Industry of Missouri, Vol. 2, 1904,  Through the Ages, Vol. 3.