Download or read book Sandstone Quarrying in the United States (Classic Reprint) written by Oliver Bowles and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Sandstone Quarrying in the United States In 1914 an agreement was entered into between the United States Geological Survey, the United States Bureau of Standards, and the Bureau of Mines for a cooperative study of the stone-quarrying industry of the country. According to this agreement the Geological Survey is to observe and report upon undeveloped outcrops, the Bureau of Mines to make a study of operating or partly developed quarries, and the Bureau of Standards to make all physical and chemical tests of samples submitted by the other bureaus involved. Safety in Stone Quarrying, Bureau of Mines Technical Paper 111, 1915, and The Technology of Marble Quarrying, Bureau of Mines Bulletin 106, 1916, were the first and second and the present bulletin on sandstone quarrying is the third of a proposed series of papers dealing with various phases of the industry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.