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State Geologist 36 REPORT OF THE VERMONT STATE GEOLOGIST Brick Clays REPORT As pointed out by the writer,' there are in the State tremendous amounts of glacially-transported clays, classifiable as Estuarine OF THE Clays, Lake and Pond Clays, Flood-plain and Terrace Clays, Drift or Boulder Clays, and Seasonal or Varve Clays. Their abundance and wide distribution are indicated by the number of brick dwell- ings in the country, oftentimes in out-of-the-way places, as well as STATE GEOLOGIST in urban centers. The largest known deposits are found along the Connecticut ON THE River and other streams, but deposits also occur along the lake shores and in former natural depressions which were filled with the clay sediments by streams flowing from the retreating ice sheet. MINERAL INDUSTRIES AND GEOLOGY ljrick Yards OF Considerable brick yards have been in operation in the past at East Ryegate, Westminster, Putney, and Bennington but, as far as the writer is informed, none of these plants is at present in VERMONT operation. 1935-1936 THE DRURY BRICK AND TILE COMPANY, INCORPORATED Office, Essex Junction. Officers: President, H. D. Drury; vice-president, H. K. Drury; treas- urer, M. W. Drury. Quarries and kilns at Essex Junction. Products: Sand-struck and water-struck bricks. I Capacity, six million sand-struck and one and one-half million water- struck bricks annually. An analysis of the clay, made some years ago by the writer, TWENTIETH OF THIS SERIES gave the following results: SiO2...............................................53.69 A1203..............................................21.24 Fe203..............................................8.65 I Ti02................................................41 MnO................................................02 CaO................................................2.84 MgO...............................................1.03 Na2O..............................................1.78 K20................................................3.94 H20...............................................5.36 ELBRIDGE C. JACOBS Moisture .............................................79 F.G.S.A. 99.75 State Geologist The Clay Deposits and Clay Industry of Vermont; 15th Rpt. Vt. State Geol. (1925-26). REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST ON THE MINERAL INDUSTRIES AND GEOLOGY OF VERMONT 193 5-1936 I TWENTIETH OF THIS SERIES I ELBRIDGE C. JACOBS F.G.S.A. State Geologist RELIEF MAP OF VERMONT Vermont Mineral Industries The mineral industries of the State, as a whole, are rapidly recovering from the depression. Comparing production in 1935 (the latest available figures for a calendar year) with those of 1933, one finds that the asbestos tonnage has increased 83.8 per- cent. lime 45 percent, talc 17.7 percent, granite (cubic feet) 16 percent, and fire clay 10.5 percent. Comparative figures for marble and slate are not available. In the lime industry prices per ton are about the same as in 1933, talc prices have improved 10.6 percent, while granite prices per cubic foot have increased 42.3 percent. In the last Report references to the geology of the various mineral deposits were given. It is not thought necessary to repeat them here. Marble Production Vermont continues to he the greatest producer of marble in the United States (and probably in the world), exceeding her nearest competitor, Georgia, by about 46 percent in "footage." The latest available figures from the Minerals Yearbook, United States Bureau of Mines, for 1934 are as follows: Building and monunsental (rough and finished) Other uses Total Slate Cubic feet Value Short tons Value Short tons Value Alabama ......... 26,480 $ 95,441 46,070 $ 45,451 48,320 $ 140,892 Arkansas ..................................... 1 510 7,356 California ............... 1 1 1 990 12,134 Georgia .......... 236,720 969,140 19,660 20,114 39,740 989,254 Massachusetts 5,470 17,566 360 576 830 18,142 Missouri ......... 70,220 169,519 120 900 5,930 170,419 New York 8,690 26,420 9,410 47,032 10,140 73,452 Tennessee ........ 141,990 518,659 3.090 12,416 15,070 531.075 Vermont 432,170 1,190,249 13,330 17,063 50,060 1,207.312 Other States 2 43,180 207,888 3,520 32,483 5,690 220,881 964,920 $3,194,882 95,560 $176,035 177,280 $3,370,917 1 Included under "Other States." Arizona, Colorado, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Utah, Virginia. and washington. Includes also States entered as "...." above. Approximate. REPORT OF THE VERMONT STATE GEOLOGIST VERMONT MINERAL INDUSTRIES: JACOBS Granite Rough stock Manufactured Year Cubic feet Value Cubic feet Value $9,721,739.52 The Vermont granite industry in 1935 showed an increase 1929 ..............1,268,178 $12,152,174.40 1,014,542.4 1930 ..............1,125,840 9,612,601.00 900,672 7,690,080.80 over 1934 of 16 percent in "footage" and 26 percent in value. The 1931 ..............842,922 5,745,711.00 674,338 4,596,568.80 estimates for 1936 show a further improvement and the Barre 1932 ..............651,401 4,722,349.00 521,121 3,777,879.20 460,037 3,524,948.80 will probably enjoy the best business it has had since 1933 ..............575,046 4,406,186.00 District 1 1934 ..............643,050 4,973,247.00 514,440 3.978,597.60 1931. The problem of unemploynient in the district no longer 1935 ..............668,838 6,274.065.92 535,070 5,019,252.74 exists-in fact it has been necessary to go outside the district to 1936, first six months 363,720 3,728,120.45 290,976 2,982,496.36 obtain workmen. ESTIMATED OUTPUT.OF MONUMENTAL GRANITE IN BARRE DISTRICT, VERMONT Production 1935 According to the 1\Iinerals Yearbook of the United States Total quarry output, rough stock................... Cubic feet 668,838 Bureau of Mines, for 1934, the production of monumental stone Shipped out of Barre District in rough .............. Cubic feet 133.768 by states was as follows Manufactured in Barre District.................... Cubic feet 535,070 Light stock consumed in district................... Cubic feet 418,024 Cubic feet 250,814 Cubic feet Value Dark stock consumed in district .................... Number of cutters (approximately) ......................... 1,240 ....................................... $8.00 .................................... 740,700 $1,932,954 Average daily wage Vermont Number of days worked. .................................... 225 Georgia ..................................... 310,090 386,779 Minnesota ................................... 100,270 208.281 Total pay roll for year...................................... $2,232,000. 00 Massachusetts ............................... 61,060 114,005 Estimated overhead......................................... 1,116,000.00 Maine ....................................... 26,790 20,592 Estimated value of light stock............................... 1,358,577. 19 California ................................... 15,260 29,236 Estimated value of dark stock............................... 1,003,257.00 Other states ................................. 372,800 705,975 Estimated polishing cost.................................... 423,173.80 Output from saws ......................................... 141,057.93 Total ................................... 1,626,970 $3,397,822 Total value of granite $6,274,065.92 These figures show that Vermont produced over twice as much ESTIMATED OUTPUT OF MONUMENTAL GRANITE IN BARRE granite as her nearest competitor, 45.5 percent of the total "foot- DISTRICT, VERMONT age" and 56.9 percent of the total value. FIRST Six MONTHS, 1936 Prcduction in the Barre District Total quarry output, rough stock................... Cubic feet 363,720 Shipped out of Barre District in rough.............. Cubic feet 72,744 The following data were furnished by the Barre Granite l3anufactured in Barre District.................... Cubic feet 290,976 Light stock consumed in district.................... Cubic feet 227,325 Association Dark stock consumed in district.................... Cubic feet 136,395 In order to stop pirating, the Federal Trade Commission has defined the 'Tiarrc I\umber of cutters (approximately) ......................... 1,550 District for the Quarrying of Granite" as beginning at the southerly part of the city Average daily wage........................................ $8.00 of Barre, Washington County, State of Vermont, and extending westerly about two 115 and one-half miles, then southerly about four miles to and including \Villiamstown. in Number of days worked.................................... Orange County. All granite quarried elsewhere may not legally be named and adver- tised as "Barre granite" hereafter. The location indicated comprises the whole of Total pay roll for one-half year.............................. $1,384,600.00 the eminence south of Barre City locally known as Millstone Hill. F,Stjmated overhead......................................... 692,300 .00 Estimated value of light stock............................... 738,806. 25 Estimated value of dark stock............................... 545,580.00 Estimated polishing cost.................................... 290, 125 .65 Output from saws ......................................... 76,708.55 ... ...... $3,728,120.45 Total value of granite........................ VERMONT MINERAL INDUSTRIES: JACOBS REPORT OF THE VERMONT STATE GEOLOGIST RIVERTON ASSOCIATE MEMBERS- Members of the Barre Granite Association, Inc. BARRE Provost Granite Company As of August 1, 1936 Bouffard, Ernest Jacques Saw Plant BARRE Novelli & Calcagni WILLIAMSTOWN Maxwell, William James Abbiati & Fontana Orlandi Granite Company Williamstown Granite Company Minnie Polishing Company, Fred. Acme
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