“This quarry is located…near the northwest limits of the city.  It is just south of the St. Louis and San Francisco railroad and about a half a mile northwest of the Missouri Pacific railroad depot.  The quarry was opened in 1891 and the company owns six acres of land upon which it is located.

The quarry has an east and west face of about 400 feet and a north and south face of 175 feet.  Two beds of finer grained stone…occur beneath the floor of the quarry.  They are separated by a layer of chert nodules…and are not worked on account of the expense of removing the chert.

The quarry has been worked beyond the crest of the hill and consequently the face is decreasing in height and the stripping increasing.  The stone contains bluish colored, tight seams which have caused considerable damage to the stone.  About thirty per cent of the stone quarried is classed as No. 1.

Both the mill and quarry are equipped with necessary machinery, including channelers, derricks, gang-saws, engines and boilers.  The output in 1900 was 18,000 cubic feet of dimension stone and 600 perch of rubble….The quarry was not in operation during 1903.”

               Lifting stone from a quarry

Source:  Quarrying Industry of Missouri, Vol. 2, 1904, Through the Ages, Vol 4.