Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-01-26
SuffiaI gotifes.
The oliver Marble and Granite
Works Of Rutland, VT.


One of the largest and best conducted monu-
mental establishments in the country, so wide
1y and favorably known tor tnelr e1celent
work. owe their success to the three lollowlng
distinguishing characteristics: superiority Oh
material, 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 rauroau
route westward from most of the valuable
Granite Quarries of New England, as this IN
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 BY these selections, customers are
lways getting ''the cream of the entire twelve
ueposits whose aggregate stock on hand, from
which choice is made, amounts to at least a
million of dollars.
As under this plan of personally selecting all
the material used, there is and can be no accu-
mutation of inferior stock, to be afterwards dis
nosed of parties may always feel assured OF
Getting only the very best OF stock IN their
work. Furthermore, soundness OF material lie
equally well insured, which is very important
consideration. involving, as il does, 10 great 6l
extent, the question of durability, when Is an
essential requisite to good work.
The second distinguishing feature OF these
works, and which perhaps has most contributed
to their reputation for superior work, has oeeI
iustly earned by the employment OF the mos
skilled artizans that can be obtained, and ol
Continuing the labor of each workman to sucf
specially of work as he excelled in.
1t must be apparent to every pracucaI mint
that, let carvers be constantly at carving, let
terers at lettering, moulding cutters moulding
hewers hewing, polishers polishing, and so OF
through every classification OF the LABOR OF
large and well-ordered mandatory, the work
men must of necessity be ever acquiring great
| er DR.. cision and dispatch in their respective
II being the determination to sell at the low
est prices that can be afforded with reasona
II ayafpmatic admiration of labor
added to their unequalled facilities In the selec
| ton of material, makes inevitable their
Third feature, and enables them to turElsl
the very best work at the lowest possibi
In order to fully meet the demand of tn
times and that the work may add variety AM
new attractions to the several localities Il
which it is erected, the services OF the pest Ia
| emit that can be obtained, is employed in con
| stantly originating fresh and novel designs 10
| military and civic monuments, tombs, hearth
| stones tablets, ETC., to which is invited tn
critical inspection OF parties desiring cemeter
improvements -.---. ,---.-. ~ A.,
works, of course, is not confined TO any parut
ular locality or State, and the several locs
dealers with whom it comes in competltlo
have no cause of jealousy at the seeming IL
Il roads upon their business. For 1t Is notlce
able fact that wherever the work goes II ellclt
such an increased interest in and demand 10
good work, as to fully compensate for any az
parent loss to other dealers in individual cases
| by the general stimulus given TO the trace
and it is not possible that this establlshmeI
will execute more than minor portion OF th
work required throughout the large and wldeI
ing field it is being distributed, it's product
already being erected IN over hundred ollie
ent cemeteries. w
| TO this brief announcement Of the tacilitlt
and ability of the works, there need only :
added good and ample evidence Oh integrity
its operations, not only in its monled traI sa
| tione. but in details of manufacture with whlC
the customer is usually unfamiliar, and
| which he must to a great extent depend upo
| the faithfulness of the builder.
| Touching this point, perhaps the most satl
factory assurance thereof that can be oner'
| is the testimony of those whose orders ha
been already executed by these works, q
deeds of the past being the best guaranty Il
the future. Hence, that parties who favor u
establishment with their orders may feel a
sured of fair dealing, and of receiving only u
best of work, the proprietor begs TO submit,
another column, new extract in each mum b.
of this paper, from some OF the many fatteriI
| letters that have been received during the ye'
| or so Last past These will also serve to ind
cate localities where specimens OF work ms
be inspected.
D Most OF these letters are from customers " i
: whom there had been no previous acqualI
ance, several being FROM parties whom the pr
s prietor has never seen, their work having be-
ordered by letter, and as matter OF course
e occasion for compliment beyond kindly desl
J to express a favorable opinion IN behalf OF u
: integrity and superior products of the
RUTLAND MARBLE & GRANITE WORK