09-08-2025, 03:30 PM
(09-08-2025, 11:55 AM)hillyard999 Wrote: Charlie,
Great picture.
that "quarry" scene raises a lot of questions.
how were the stones made so round? They were hand cut for the most part and I think there was a steam driven lathe for the finish cut
was there a giant lathe?
I notice all are stacked axis vertical.
It almost looks like they are pulled up from a pit to the left. They were cut from blocks in the sides of the quarry
There is the roof to a shed at the right. dynamite storage shed
The stacked blanks at right seem to be placed on uneven surface.
Likewise the supports for the jib pole mast.
Where is this place? Workers may be Chinese. It was in East Liverpool and the workers were all local workers
Very intriguing.
I find an article claiming they were used to grind flint (silica). The quarry was owned by a paper company ad I believe that to be why they would produce mill stones made of sandstone. The flint used by the pottery industry would have to be pure so I can't imagine using sandstone to grind it.
I came across this article from 1990 that is a better , true version
The mill stones were shipped around the country for use in paper mills to grind wood into pulp.
The International Pulp Stone Co., headquartered in Empire, Ohio, operated the California Hollow quarry at least 20 years, the brothers believe, and closed sometime in the 1920s. Bob Harding was superintendent, and "It was a very high grade of sandstone - the best the company ever found," Robert Mattern says. "The company only pulled out because they played out the quarry. It got to the place where there ^was too much overbearing (soil) on, the stone and it was too difficult to remove.''
It started with holes drilled in the earth at the top of the quarry. Dynamite was placed in the holes, and there would be a shout: "Fire in the hole!" and everybody ran," Robert Mattern remembers.Tons of dirt, blasted loose from the underlying rock, were loaded by steam shovel into wagons. The boys' father would haul the dirt to a spot below the present location of the Dresden Avenue Dairy Queen for dumping
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Charlie
