Harrisonville,  Cass County,  Missouri

This quarry has been opened 300 feet north and south and 175 feet east and west along the crest of a gently sloping hill.  It has a ten foot face, composed of beds of fine grained, compact, gray limestone varying in thickness from two to fourteen inches, and separated from one another by thin seams of shale. 

The stipping consists of from one to three feet of clayey soil.  The bedding planes are irregular and wavy.  The stone contains dry seams along which it has been colored yellowish brown with iron oxide.  Some of the layers show roundish or irregular dark spots, which give the stone a somewhat mottled appearance.…..

Hand tools are used in quarrying and working the stone.  Most of it is marketed in irregular blocks suitable only for rough masonry.  Some of the thinner beds, although they have very rough, irregular surfaces, have been used for sidewalks.”

The Conger Quarry 

“The Conger Quarry has been operated mainly to produce broken stone for macadamizing the streets of Harrisonville.”  The quarry was located near the eastern limits of the city.  “It has a six-foot face, consisting of beds of fossiliferous limestone from two to ten inches thick.  The stone is partly decomposed along the bedding planes.  The principal joints strike N. 50 degrees E.”

“The stone is of Upper Coal Measure age and is very much alike in both quarries.”

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