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FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA 39<br />

poryphritic, and gneissoid, or banded. Twelve tests <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> crush<br />

ing strength <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> fine-grained brotite-bearing granite from Stone<br />

Mountain, ranged from 12,000 to 28,000 pounds per square inch,<br />

and averaged over 16,000 pounds per square inch. .<br />

Stone Mountain, in DeKalb county, only a few miles from<br />

Atlanta, is one <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> largest solid granite monoliths in <strong>the</strong><br />

world. It is <strong>of</strong> impressive interest as a geological phenomenon.<br />

Contrary to all rules <strong>of</strong> geology, it rises 686 feet above <strong>the</strong> sur<br />

rounding plain, and stands a solid dome-like mass <strong>of</strong> rock, seven<br />

miles in circumference. Engineers have estimated that <strong>the</strong>re is in<br />

this one base at least sixteen billion cubic feet <strong>of</strong> workable stone.<br />

A project is now on foot, under <strong>the</strong> auspices <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> United<br />

Daughters <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Confederacy, to carve in deep bas-relief on <strong>the</strong><br />

nearly perpendicular side <strong>of</strong> Stone Mountain, a colossal monu<br />

mental panorama to commemorate <strong>the</strong> heroic deeds <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Confed<br />

erate Armies. The opportunity here afforded for a mile or more<br />

<strong>of</strong> gigantic sculptured figures <strong>of</strong> men and horses, fifty or more<br />

feet in height, with all <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> paraphernalia <strong>of</strong> war, and <strong>the</strong> sug<br />

gested solid rock chambers for relics and archives, can nowhere<br />

be equalled, and challenges imagination. The mountain side, and<br />

an extensive tract <strong>of</strong> land on <strong>the</strong> plain at <strong>the</strong> base <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> moun-<br />

MANGANESE WASHER, SATTERFIELD MINE, BARTOW COUNTY

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