Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 224, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1913 — Developing Stone Quarry Industry at Kentland. [ARTICLE]

Developing Stone Quarry Industry at Kentland.

Kentland Enterprise. The press of an electric button Saturday afternoon discharged a ton of dynamite at the stone quarry and caused an upheaval of rock probably seventy-five feet square and twenty-flve feet deep. The charge was a little heavy and powdered the rock finer that necessary for the crusher. The dynamite was placed in twenty six-inch holes twenty-five feet deep, and simply upheaved the solid block of stone and shattered it into fragments. The water in the quarry was pumped out Friday and it is estimated some twenty or thirty thousand small fish were removed and taken to the Kankakee river. The big motor which will propel the entire works, has arrived and been set. A great industry will be developed.