Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-09-26
RUTLAND HERALD.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER %, 1867.
West FINLAND Marble. --AbOut Mar
BILE in geperai.--A New Marble
Quarry, &c.

or an inexperienced observer. In these |
days of marble hunting, and marble on
the brain" it will be we'll to bear this
fact in mind. Some Of the tests by
which true marble may be distinguished
rom that which Stimulates it, are quite
familiar such as its admitting OF being
easily scratched with the knife; OF being
sawn into slabs, and its susceptibility TO
a handsome and sometimes toa brilliant
nolish. There are also other tests not so
familiar; as for instance, marble Will
efFervesce with acids; will srord quick
lime by calcination when broken has
conchoidal, that is, a shell-like, scaly
fracture is translucent only on the very
edges, and has specific gravity OF IL
Now, these qualities occur united in
Only three principal varieties OF lime
stone. In the saccharoid, or granular,
resembling loafsugar the foliated, or
lunellar, consisting OF multitude OF
small facets, J. {. little faces, formed OF
minute plates applied to one smother
something like the scales OF nse, but
with considerable irregularityi and IN
the transition and carboniferous lime
stones. OF these varieties, the modern
foreign statuary marble like that OF
Carrara, is sacchaIoid, or granular, IN
texture; the ancient statuary, like that
oeParos is folisted, or lumellar; while
marbles presenting animal remains IN
the shape OF star.like grayish spots, the
shell marbles, and the breccia torEa-
tons, belong to the third variety. It's
we'll known that the most valuable mar
bic auarries in the United States yet Gls-
covered, are located just north OF the
village Of West Rutland at the base OF
the eastern range OF hills extending
portherly into the town OF Pittsford,
owned by the Rutland Marble Company,
sheldons & Slason, Allen & Adams,
Sherman g. Adams, &c. Nearly oppo-
site these quarries, and at the base OF the
western slope OF hills, also extending
northerlv into Pittsford, with q narrow
valley between, are other quarries, now
belonging to the American Marble Com
papv, Morgan, Blanchard, &c. The first
named of these quarries, located on the
eastern range OF hills, yield the foliated
marble, resembling in its structure the
marble OF Paros while the second named
Quarries, located on the western range
othills, produce the granular marble,
resembling in its structure that OF Car
r.rs. In respect to color the West Rut'
land marble resembles that produced
from Mount Penteles, near Athens, Of
which the Parthenon and the Hippo
drome Of that ancient city were con-
structed, more closely than it does the
Parian, being white with occasional
ereenish zones and mottles. OF course
there are in other respects very aDpar-
ent contrasts between the Italian and
Grecian and the Rutland marbles, which
are passed over, it being our purpose
merely to speak Of some Of the resem-
blances. About six miles directly north
OF the West Rutland quarries, up the
"Whipple hollow" valley, and on the
same range ofhills, quarry has recent
" been discovered on the farm of Mr..
Edwin @. Wheaton, which we understand
has been purchased by our townsmeni
John n. Baxter, Charles c. Dewey and
Thos McGanay, and which presents
every indication of being an inexhausst'
bic deposit OF the most valuable grades
ofmarble. The territory comprises from
twelve to fifteen acres, and it is remark
able that the physical and geologic for
nations at the point where this deposit
makes its appearance bear a close resem
blance to those at the West Rutland
quarries. One Of the best tests of sounC
marble, short of actual experiment, is it'
being found at eater line. Thus the Yves
Rutlaud quarries are but slightly ele
waited above the surface Of swamp
fanking them on the west and south
the layers having pitch to the east ant
being protected by everything bluffs. TIL
same is exactly true of the new quarrie
Of Messrs, Baxter & Dewey with onl,
this difference, that the new quarries ar
fanked by swampy lands on the ives
and north, the new quarries being at tn
northerly terminus OF the before describe
easterly range OF hills where they sink t
water line, as is the case with the Yves
Rutland quarries at the southern tel
minus OF the same range. The layer
have been examined by those who hav
had largest experience in quarrylng tn
/ West Rutland marble, and it is q singu
/ lar discovery that both lines of deposits
as they are developed at West Rutlant
on the eastern and western ranges I
hills, converge at this new quarry
such an extent as to be found lyin
I therein side by side, with an intervenin
space Of no more than fifteen rods, Il