Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Daily Telephone, October 13, 1925, p. 1. BORLAND FARM A QUARRY SITE The Consolidated Company to Expand in the Bloomington District After Extensive Core-Drilling Two-Mile Switch From Clear Creek-Stone Will Be Taken Out in the Spring An important stone trade was closed yesterday afternoon and this deed will give the Bloomington district a new stone quarry and stone mill. The deal was the purchase of the James Borland farm, two miles northwest of Clear Creek, by the Consolidated Stone company, which is recognized as the largest stone outfit in the Bloomington and Bedford districts. The Consolidated company, it is said, paid $46,000 for the Borland farm of 217 acres, of which some 40 acres is stone land. Stripping operations will begin at once for the new quarry and it is expected that by March the regular work of quarrying can start. A two-mile switch from Clear Creek to the new quarry will be laid down and will be ready when the first stone is taken out. The Consolidated company expects to get out a very fine grade of stone from this new quarry. The land was core-drilled in 20 places before the purchase was made and the "cres" show the stone to be the whitest of buff-the stone which is in greatest demand over the country. This is the second quarry to be opened up in this immediate neighborhood. Harry Johnson recently opened a quarry on the Ferry farm which is just south of the Borland farm, and has already taken out some very fine buff stone. The Consolidated company opened the new quarry for the purpose of supplying the growing demand for stone. The Consolidated is now operating a large quarry mill in the Hunter Valley district, a quarry and a mill at Dark Hollow, near Bedford, and two of the largest cutting plants of the district at Bedford. The Consolidated company has been producing two million feet of stone a year, and this output will be increased. A.E. Dickinson, president of the Consolidated company, was in Bloomington yesterday and closed the details of the purchase of the Borland farm. Other officers of the Consolidated are: W. H. Wilson, first vice-president; D. H. Johnson, vice-president; and E. N. Welsh, secretary-treasurer. The purchase of the Borland farm by the Consolidated company is another indication of the tendency of the big companies to make their expansion in the Bloomington rather than in the Bedford end of the district. Stone men inform The Telephone that from now on the big development will all be in the Bloomington district. The Oolitic stone belt starts at Stinesville and ends at Bedford, and the great bulk of the undeveloped stone is in Monroe county. Through Monroe county the stone belt is from 6 to 8 miles wide and there is practically an unlimited amount of both the buff and blue stone. The stone resources of Monroe county have hardly been scratched as yet expert stone men assert to The Telephone. Constance T. Shotts, Ed.D., CG(SM) CG and Certified Genealogist are Service Marks of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license by board certificants after periodic evaluations by the Board and the board name is a trademark registered in the US Patent and Trademark Office.