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| Keywords: Bulletin 426 Plate XX Granite Monolith.jpg Mount Airy Surry County NC <br>Text from the volume describing this figure <br>The North Carolina Granite Corporation is adequately equipped with all necessary modern machinery and appliances for quarrying and handling the stone In 1905 a large stone-cutting plant was erected The stone is carried from the quarries to the railway cars by a system of inclined cableways run by gravity The limit in size of dimension stone is the capacity of the railroad cars Blocks weighing 20 tons are reported to have been frequently shipped from the quarries See Pl XX 1910 Granites of the Southeastern Atlantic States Bulletin 426 United States Geological Survey Government Printing Office Washington 1910 Watson Thomas Leonard other versions PD-USGov Geology Quarrying | ||||
