There was competition between California quarries and Chinese quarries even in 1876. "Our Granite Quarries," "Daily Alta California," Vol. 28, No. 9763, December 29, 1876, pp. 1 "A member of the Pacific Granite Quarries now in this city, says they are pushing the work in the granite quarries at Rocklin, where they have spent large sums of money in developing. Now they meet with a ruinous competition, in the way of pavement blocks brought from China as ballast, and sold at any price that can be had at quick sale; a price so very low that it would not pay freight from our California quarries. "This competition is so discouraging that it is a question whether they can continue to get out that class of stone. Should they be compelled to suspend, it would throw out of employment a large number of men who have families to support. He thinks there is a tariff on such stone, if so, it ought to be enforced, for if our own quarries can be stopped by such competition, then the persons bringing stone from China will make our citizens pay well for their former loss. "This may become a serious question, for the ships from China cannot bring enough to meet the demands of this city, while our quarries cannot be started up at any time merely to supply a temporary demand for this pavement. To make such pavement at a reasonable price and profit, the business must be kept up with all the advantages of experience in working the quarries." Peggy B. Perazzo pbperazzo@comcast.net Stone Quarries and Beyond http://quarriesandbeyond.org/ All outgoing mail virus free, scanned by Norton AntiVirus <http://www.symantec.com/>http://www.symantec.com/ New additions to our web site will be listed on our Twitter or Facebook pages, which is open to the public. (You do not need to join Facebook to view the new additions. You only need to join Facebook if you want to receive automatic notifications of new additions.) http://www.facebook.com/StoneQuarriesAndBeyond https://twitter.com/pbperazzo

Peggy,You have been busy! Most Interesting!!!marilyn --- On Sun, 4/14/13, Peggy B Perazzo <pbperazzo@comcast.net> wrote: From: Peggy B Perazzo <pbperazzo@comcast.net> Subject: [NORCAL] Paving stone quarry competition between Rocklin CA & China in 1876 To: Norcal@rootsweb.com Date: Sunday, April 14, 2013, 9:44 PM There was competition between California quarries and Chinese quarries even in 1876. "Our Granite Quarries," "Daily Alta California," Vol. 28, No. 9763, December 29, 1876, pp. 1 "A member of the Pacific Granite Quarries now in this city, says they are pushing the work in the granite quarries at Rocklin, where they have spent large sums of money in developing.  Now they meet with a ruinous competition, in the way of pavement blocks brought from China as ballast, and sold at any price that can be had at quick sale; a price so very low that it would not pay freight from our California quarries. "This competition is so discouraging that it is a question whether they can continue to get out that class of stone.  Should they be compelled to suspend, it would throw out of employment a large number of men who have families to support.  He thinks there is a tariff on such stone, if so, it ought to be enforced, for if our own quarries can be stopped by such competition, then the persons bringing stone from China will make our citizens pay well for their former loss. "This may become a serious question, for the ships from China cannot bring enough to meet the demands of this city, while our quarries cannot be started up at any time merely to supply a temporary demand for this pavement.  To make such pavement at a reasonable price and profit, the business must be kept up with all the advantages of experience in working the quarries." Peggy B. Perazzo pbperazzo@comcast.net Stone Quarries and Beyond http://quarriesandbeyond.org/ All outgoing mail virus free, scanned by Norton AntiVirus <http://www.symantec.com/>http://www.symantec.com/ New additions to our web site will be listed on our Twitter or Facebook pages, which is open to the public.  (You do not need to join Facebook to view the new additions.  You only need to join Facebook if you want to receive automatic notifications of new additions.) http://www.facebook.com/StoneQuarriesAndBeyond https://twitter.com/pbperazzo  ----------------------------------------- NORCAL ARCHIVES: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ Enter NORCAL.  Browse by month. Or click the "Search all archives" link to search by keyword. ----------------------------------------- To post a message to the NORCAL mailing list, send an email to NORCAL@rootsweb.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORCAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message