Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1901 — Actually Manufacturing Marble. [ARTICLE]

Actually Manufacturing Marble.

Manufacturers are actually making marble by tbe same process by which nature makes it, only in a few weeks Instead of a few thousand years. They take a rather soft limestone and chemically permeate it with various coloring matters, which sink into the stone, and are not a mere surface coloring, as in scagllola. The completed material takes a fine polish, and many of the specimens are of beautiful color and marking. Used as a veneer, it is about one-third the price of nature’s marble.