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1890 MARBLE QUARRIES Quarry MIDDLEBURY Vermont PROCTOR
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE - Nine (9)Pages - from Early Magazine - 1890 IN THE MARBLE HILLS - by Rowland E. Robinson Very interesting, very informative Early Article - filled with historic facts and details - accompanied by wonderful early engraved illustrations - all making this a rare, and valuable piece of VERMONT HISTORY - HISTORY OF MARBLE QUARRIES - QUARRYING - as well as a great research tool on these topics. The ILLUSTRATIONS - numbering eight - include: The Original QUARRY LOT TEAM OF OXEN - 'Bringing Down the Block' STATUE For the Boston Post-office In the SAWING MILL etc.etc.etc. *********************************** "...Though the presence in Vermont of that finer limestone called marble was long ago known, and a quarry of black marble was worked in the Isle La Motte before the Revolution, any extensive quarrying of marble was not begun till within the memory of men now living...." "...early in the century marble was quarried and worked in Middlebury w it is claimed by many of his contemporaries, the sawing of marble with strips of soft iron and sand and water was invented - or rather re-invented - by a boy named Isaac Markham....." "....the advantages held by Italian over American quarrymen in the small mount of machinery and the cheapness of their labor, is shown in the report to the tariff commission of 1882 made by Governor Redfield Proctor of the Vermont Marble Company, in Sutherland Falls and Rutland....." "..We pay for labor of all classes an average of $1.75 per day..the Italian quarrymen pay less than one third of this and have no capital in quarrying machinery..in the Italian quarries the price of labor for the men who prepare the blocks of marble is from twenty five to thirty five cents a day and of those who do the blasting fort five cents a day...." "..the sawing mill is not a cheerful place...Dampness pervades it and under the low roof stretch the long, dim vistas, ending in gloom, between the gangs of incessantly swinging saws...." "...Governor Proctor says t has been little marble exported from this country....."We have sent several shipments to London within the last two years...what was sent to London was in slabs mostly, for mantel work, tablets in walls, and so forth...." "..Marble is as common in Rutland as bricks and cheaper stones are in other towns...t are great shining rubbish heaps of it about the quarries and mills and t are roadways of it, and sidewalks flagged with broad squares of it and floors tiled with it........" BUYER PAYS $2.50 shipping and handling. SEE MY AUCTIONS for more early articles..etc. SAVE on Combined Shipping
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