Identifier: muskogeenortheas00bene (find matches)
Title: Muskogee and northeastern Oklahoma, including the counties of Muskogee, McIntosh, Wagoner, Cherokee, Sequoyah, Adair, Delaware, Mayes, Rogers, Washington, Nowata, Craig, and Ottawa
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Benedict, John Downing, 1854-
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Publisher: Chicago : S.J. Clarke Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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tamorphosed by the action of heat and pressure. In commonparlance, however, any limestone that takes a good polish is amarble. The line between marble and limestone can never be verysharply drawn. If we accept the latter definition there are a largenumber of ledges of marble in Oklahoma. There is one region,however, in Oklahoma, where true marble has been found. Thisregion is near Marble City, on the Kansas City Southern Railroad,in Sequoyah County. The area containing the marble occupiesfour or five sections of land. The stone is known to be more thantwo hundred feet in thickness, thus making the approximateamount of available marble to exceed ten million cubic yards. Thestone is principally calcium carbonate, but contains a small percent of magnesium carbonate, thus making it slightly dolomitic(white marble). In color it ranges from a pure white to a pink,and in places shows the characteristic mottled or marbled appear-ance of gray marble. A block of this stone subjected to pressure
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ONE OF THE BIG LEAD AND ZINC MILLS NEAR MIAMI MUSKOGEE AND NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA 255 tested six months after it was removed from the quarry, showeda crushing strength of 12,000 pounds to the square inch. Whenjust removed from the quarry it crushed at 8,000 pounds. Theoccurrence of this stone near the Kansas City Southern Railroadwhich connects with several East and West roads gives splendidfacilities to operators. SANDSTONE Sandstone is the most widely distributed building stone in Okla-homa, there being scarcely a county in which it is not found inquantity. Its color, texture and quality varies greatly in differentregions. The sandstone in Eastern Oklahoma is usually of a lightbrown or grayish color, regularly bedded and of fine texture, whichqualities render it a handsome building stone. It outcrops alongthe sides of bluffs and cliffs and on top of high hills. Stone ofthis character is found in all parts of more than thirty counties,including practically all of the Cherokee Nation,

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