Hi David,  My great granddaddy was one of those who quarried granite in
Barre, VT.  He came from Scotland to do so.  That's why I live in Vermont
and not someplace in Scotland, I guess.  Ruth






At 7:58 PM +1000 4/4/02, david west wrote:
>Mark
>
>> As he was explaining the
>> problem with cutting marble he said "marble is the
>> softest material we work
>> with, but the hardest to cut."  He went on to point
>> out that as they pushed
>> the marble slab into the saw, the blade wasn't
>> actually cutting it, but just
>> pushing through it.  With the heat and the water,
>> the dust was clogging up
>> the blade.

>
>many reasons why stone was used so much in the early
>days.  Wasn't just marble - you should see some of the
>enormous old granite quarries kicking around in
>Georgia, North Caroline, Vermont, Minnesota, that date
>back more than a century.

>Cheers
>
>david
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