Dimension stone machines that put on flat or rounded edges, and interconnecting conveyors to move the stone from the slab input to the final tile product. The stone for tiles is most commonly marble, but often is granite, and sometimes limestone, slate, or quartz-based stone. Common colors are white and light earth colors. Much of the stone for this application is produced in Italy and China. Stone monuments include tombstones, grave markers or as mausoleums. After being gangsawed into big deep (up to wide and over 6 inches deep) slabs, smaller saws or guillotines (they break the granite and make the rough
Michael Sullivan (stonemason) Michael Sullivan (stonemason) Michael Sullivan (died March 25, 1928) was a stonemason who in the 1920s built various historical structures of fieldstone in Casa Grande. He also built a monument in the town of Sacaton, Arizona, dedicated to Pvt. Matthew B. Juan, a Native American, who was the first Arizonan to die in World War I. Sullivan was born in Casa Grande, Arizona, in the late 19th century. There he became a professional stonemason. His specialty was building structures out of fieldstones. Fieldstones are the stones collected from the surface of fields where it occurs naturally. The stones used as