The Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1850-1852, 1850-06-27

carfse&e nov, II has ran road trnnspof
iaiion BY The way of the Ks,land &
Burlins,on Rail Road. Even tl,is sbor,
land carriage. win the loading and On
loading 10 equivalent 10 charge Of ii
least dollar PER ton. In fourteen
months from this time the marble a,
the quarries may be placed in the cars
and in the natural order Of business,
with the sing'e exception Of a bridge a,
Ronsc's Point, ian obstacle which horc
TO see rcmovcd) without transhipme Mt
may he placed u, OsdensLursh, a, Duf.
fa!o, at Boston, and AT New York
That in the same manner, go far "a the
natural and convenient coursc Of bust
meas shall render desirable, il may be
placed not only at NIL the intermediate
points Of Importance, which lie on the
dircc, road to these grea, marts and de.
pots of commerce, but, also, at every
considerable town in New England,
New York, and in two years from this
time, ! might add Pennsylvania and O.
lio. ~ addition TO this, upon two of
the routes, rs matter Of absolute Ger.
tain'y, and Tin my judsmenD upon the
third, wise and enlarged---I will add
"a noble self.inierest, will command
great cheapness Of transportation. First
to 60 south as far as Troy, there will be
the competition between two rail roads,
and from Whitehall, third channel by
Canal. Marble is an article admirably
adapted to rail road transportation. and
more especially, when thu. transpor,a-
ton ID TO he for long distance. wi,hou,
rc-loading. The marble in the outset
would lie loaded into the cars Of the
Troy & Rutland railroad, and that Conn
pany never could afford to have il taxi
en- on, Of their cars till they reached
Troy, If they could get dollar and a
half per ton. Transportation then, to
the City Of New York, and to the in
tervening places in the valley Of the
Hudson; could not be more than two
dollars and fifty cents per ion, and more
probably, would be as low as two dol.
lars. There would be many circum.
stances 10 render the rate higher in the
direction Of Boston. But in case il
should turn out. as l believe it will,
that marble in the block is a great and
important American staple, susceptible
OF immense increase and amplifcaiion
of manufacture, not merely for domcs
tic use, but also for foreign expectation,
then Boston would be anxious that in
her market the price of such n staple
should no, materially exceed that in The
now leading city Of the continent. The
amount Of trade North, in the direction
OF Burlington and Ogdensburgh would
be very great; it might in the outset,
and for some years, exceed that in any
other one direction. For long time,
and to an immense amount it might 20,
in what would otherwise he empty cars
upon their return trip as far as Ogdcns-
burgh, and there meet the germ of
future New York, sitting at the foot of
the American Mediterranean, upon
whose waters the product OF but a few
millions Of hardy pioneers, now floats
a commerce more than half eouallinc
in value, the commerce Of all Europe
with all Asia. What then are few Of
the reasons why Rutland should he tho
place for the production, and perhaps,
exchange Of this staple, which since the
dawn of civilization has been the favor.
tie material upon which the tool of the
artist, the chisel of the SCULPTOR.
and the busy brain Of the architect, has
exhausted itself in the erection alike of
The Mausoleum, the Palace, and the
Temple. In the first place, within the
own OF Rutland, there are at least ten
eading varieties Of Marble, with well
iehned differences not only of colsr,
'at also of texture, closeness and di.
action OF grain, mechanical strength
II fabric. and undoubtedly, in proper
Ion and kind Of chemical constituents.
should you include also the minor VA.
leties. dis,nsuishable, chiefly, by color
he list Of plainly marked varieties,
would he at least, forty. All Of these
Iuarries lie within convenient reach Of
he railroads now built and building
I'D mos: Of them could be reached by
rm,, or eide tracks Of from eighty 70
he knnd rod r<I. -.