Excerpt from Report of the State Board of Examiners as a Capitol Commission to the Eleventh Legislative Assembly in Special Session: December 27, 1909 Regarding the crushing strength, a test by the United States government gives the crushing strength of Bedford stone of about pounds to the square foot. That this enables it to stand an enormous weight is shown by the fol lowing table of maximum weights borne on the piers and masonry of well known structures. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.