THE MARBLE QUARRIES OF CARRARA. BY DAY ALLEN WILLEY. Where Carrara Sculptors Learn Their Art. Making the Gigantic Statues. Block Marked for Cutting. White Marble Quarry Entrance. Steam Power Marble Planers. Slab Cutting Saws Operated by Steam and Water Power. Marble Crags at Carrara Alps she formed a storehouse of marble that is truly marvelous in extent for beds of the finest quality of the Carrara grade are known to exist as high as 5500 feet above the level of the sea. The exact depth is unknown as the deposits have as yet not been thor oughly investigated by the use of machinery. Test borings which have been made however show that a considerable portion of the mountain formation in the commune of Massa in which Carrara lies seems to be entirely of marble and it is believed that in places the formation extends fully 500 feet downward with The grain of the marble quarried at the present time waste taken from the older workings. It still has a such ease into statuary and other forms. In recent years the quarries of Carrara have had an annual the bulk of the marble used in Italy and Europe to-day, scientific american, 1907-11-16
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