Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1880 — Italian Marble. [ARTICLE]

Italian Marble.

The London Building News says that the extraordinary demand for Italian marble has raised a question as to how long the quarries are likely to hold out. According to a report of the French Geological Commission, there yet remains a considerable surface and depth of the true Pentelican marble untouched, but no specific statements are given on this head. At Carrara a dreadful waste of material goes on. A late traveler was ' aosmoil .ou tt© ©pot that hundreds of tons were needlessly thrown away through sheer carelessness and the clumsiness of workmen. Much of this exquisite material is removed in enormous masses for the decoration of commonplace edifices. The Italians are at length becoming alive to this. The quarries have been worked almost without iatermission since the days of the Roman Emperors. A little community of sculptors is established around the quarries, and the artist’s chisel is plied almost side by side with the marble-mason’s saw. This marble goes everywhere.