Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-03-02
Spefial 4otifes.
The oliver Marble and Granite
Works Of Rutland, VI.

One of the largest and best conducted monu
mental establishments in the country, go wide
~ and favorably known tor excellent work
owes Its success to the three following dis
tinguishing characteristics: superiority OF ma
terial. artistic execution, and low prices
The first lie chiefly due to their immediate prox
unity to the celebrated Rutland Marble Quar-
ries, and their location on the direct railroad
route westward from most of the valuable
Granite Quarries of New England, as this Inn
portant advantage of location over all other
similar establishments is not lost sight of by
the proprietor OF the Works; and his patrons
have the full benefit thereof in personal selec
ton of material from the entire product of the
ouarries. Thus. customers are always getting
ssthe cream" of the entire twelve deposits
AS under this plan Of personally selecting all
the material, as used, there lie and can be no ac-
cumulation 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 ia equally well insured, which
ia very important consideration. involving, as
it 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 mort contributed
to their reputation, has been justly earned by
the employing at of the most skilled artizans
that can be obtained, and by combining the Ia
Dor of each workman to such specially OF work
as he excelled in. Let carvers be constantly
at carving, letterers at lettering, moulding cut
tiers moulding, polishers polishing, and so on
through every classification of the labor OF a
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 In
the selection of material, makes inevitable their
Third feature, and enables them to furnish
the very best work at the lowest possible
priees.
In order to fully meet the demand of the
times, the services of the best talent that can
be obtained, is employed in constantly origin
ating fresh and novel designs for military and
civic monuments, tombs, hearth-stones, tab
let's, etc., to which is invited the critical In
spection OF parties desiring cemetery improve
ments.
The constantly increasing business of the
works, of course, ia not confined to any partic-
ular 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 In
it's operations, not only in it's monied trausac-
tons, but in details of manufacture with which
the customer is usually unfamiliar, and il
which he must to a great extent depend upon
| the faithfulness of the builder.
Touching this point, perhaps the most salts
factory assurance thereof that can be offered
is the testimony of those whose orders have
been already executed. Hence, the proprietor
| begs to submit, ia another column, new ex
tract in each number of this paper, from somt
of the many fattering letters that have been re
ceived during the year or so last past. Thess
will also serve to indicate localities where
| specimens OF work may be inspected.
| Most of these letters are from customers witt
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 matter of course Nc
occasion for compliment beyond a kindly desire
to express favorable opinion in behalf of the
integrity and superior products of the
RUTLAND MARBLE q GRANITE WORKS