Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-09-28
Spefial gntires.
The oliver Marble and Granite
Works Of Rutland, VT.


One of the largest and best conducted monu
mental establishments in the country, so wide
ly and favorably known tor excellent work
owes Its success to the three following dir
tiRguishing characteristics: superiority of ns
terial, artistic execution, and low prices.
The first is chiefly due to their immediate prox
| unity to the celebrated Rutland Marble Guar
ries, and their location on the direct ralroar
route westward from most of the valuable
Granite Quarries of New England, as this i'm
portant advantage of location over all other
similar establishments is not lost sight of by
the proprietor of the Works: and his patrous
have the full benefit thereof III a personal selec
ton of material from the entire product of the
quarries Thus, customers are always getting
1.-THE cream of the entire twelve deposits
As under ths plan of personally selecting all
the material, as used, there is and can be no &C
cumulatieu of inferior stock, parties may al
ways feel assured of getting only the very best
of stock in their work. Furthermore, sound
ness of material is equally well insured, which
is a very important consideration, involving, ar
1t Does TO great extent, the question of dura-
bility, which is an essential requisite to good
work.
The second distinguishing feature OF these
works, and which perhaps has most contributed
to their reputation, has been justly earned BY
the employment of the most skilled artizans
that can be obtained, and by combining the Ia
Dor of each workman to such specially of worE
as he excelled in. Let carvers be constantly
at carving, letterers at lettering, moulding cut
tiers moulding, polishers polishing, and so OF
through every classification of the labor of q
large aud well-ordered mandatory, the work
men must of necessity be ever acquiring great
er pr cision and dispatch in their respective
departments, while this systematic adaptation
of labor, added to their unequalled facilities il
the selection of material, makes inevitable theil
Third feature, and enables them to furBisf
the very best work at the lowest possible
prices.
In order to fully meet the demand of thu
times, the services OF the best talent that cal
he obtained, is employed in constantly origin
ating fresh and novel designs for military
civic monuments, tombs, hearth-stones, tab
lets, ETC., to which is invited the critical in
spection OF parties desiring cemetery improve
ments.
The constantly increasing business of the
works, of course, is not confined to any p2rtic
alar locality or State, its products already be
ing erected in over hundred different GENE
teries.
To this brief announcement of the facilities
and ability of the works, there need only BE-
added good and ample evidence Of integrity il
its operations, not only in its mOnied transac-
tons, but in details of manufacture with which
the customer is usually unfamiliar, and il
which he must to great extent depend upon
the faithfulness of the builder.
Touching this point, perhaps the most satis-
factory assurance thereof that can be offered
is the testimony of those whose orders have
been already executed. Hence, the proprietor
begs to submit, in another column, new ex
tract in each number of this paper, from some
Of the many iattering letters that have been re
ceived during the year or so last past. These
will also serve to indicate localities where
specimens of work may be inspected.
Most of these letters are from customers with
whom there had been no previous acquaint
ance, many from parties whom the prOpri-
etor has never seen, their work having beer
ordered by letter, and as 8 matter of course no
occasion for compliment beyond kindly desire
to express favorable opinion in behalf of the
integrity and superior products of the
RUTLAND MARBLE q GRANITE WORKS.