Kent and Karen Ivey
2005-06-18 23:38:01 UTC
Thank you all for the time you spend helping , you are models of what we all should be.
I have tried to search on the web to find a source of the Pecos Red Sandstone. I run into quite a few pieces that have been made from it , and all over town here in Big Spring TX it has been incorporated into walls and such. Down by the spring are the 3 foot by 10 foot columns from the front porch of our second courthouse, rolled off by the banks of a shallow canyon, and while I was wandering a pasture last summer, I found a gravestone that had been worked by the family of the guy, marked 1935. Big piece, not marking the grave though... someone had drug it into a stand of cedars long ago. Have no idea where the real grave is.
Any way, I can find lots of references to Barstow , the quarry and the history of the buildings that were made from this stone , like Old Red in Dallas, but I can find no info on where to get ahold of any. Not that far away from me , just a pleasant day trip, but who wants to go to Barstow in the summer time? Wink TX just down the road is a regular for the hottest place in the nation on the weather maps, and unless I am going to the spring at Balmoreah, well...... I can wait till fall.
Any one know whether the old quarry is being worked at all, and if so who to contact ?
I am thanking you in advance , and will again!
Kent Lee Ivey, Big Spring TX
kkivey-***@public.gmane.org
I have tried to search on the web to find a source of the Pecos Red Sandstone. I run into quite a few pieces that have been made from it , and all over town here in Big Spring TX it has been incorporated into walls and such. Down by the spring are the 3 foot by 10 foot columns from the front porch of our second courthouse, rolled off by the banks of a shallow canyon, and while I was wandering a pasture last summer, I found a gravestone that had been worked by the family of the guy, marked 1935. Big piece, not marking the grave though... someone had drug it into a stand of cedars long ago. Have no idea where the real grave is.
Any way, I can find lots of references to Barstow , the quarry and the history of the buildings that were made from this stone , like Old Red in Dallas, but I can find no info on where to get ahold of any. Not that far away from me , just a pleasant day trip, but who wants to go to Barstow in the summer time? Wink TX just down the road is a regular for the hottest place in the nation on the weather maps, and unless I am going to the spring at Balmoreah, well...... I can wait till fall.
Any one know whether the old quarry is being worked at all, and if so who to contact ?
I am thanking you in advance , and will again!
Kent Lee Ivey, Big Spring TX
kkivey-***@public.gmane.org