Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-03-27


ing Of Is value, | am aware that the price Of
my commodity at the place Of It's production
depends on it's quality and the facilities OF
transportation. The iron and coal OF Penn
sylvanil must reach a market before they
are Of much value to the owners. The agrl-
cultural products OF Vermont must be car
ried to the consumers. or Utherwl they
decay in the stOrehouses of the prod icer.
thirty wears ago the land embracing the
rich marble quarries of Rutland was sold
for an old mare aud her colt. Iac facilities
Of transpor alton - ere increased. and forth
with a value was gwen to the heretofore
worthless article. Q ality without iacli-
ties of TRANSPORTATION vii never give any
article a me rcantlle value.
The granite OF Washington county, like
all the product rs of the earth, must be
valued IN proportion To Its usefulness and
.lcmGnd It, use for Architectural purposes.
We ave seen i excellent, and, Iu the opinion
% President Hitchcock aud Utner gcJlOgi,ts,
clnuot be surpassed by any rock vi IT.
ind, IN this or any other country.
Should the demand be extended and the
facilities for conveying this granite 70 maI Kst
be increased, | sae not why TINS county has
not "A ,urCe If productive labor, even greater
than that of any other in Vermont Not
witt audine the dfh:ulry and expense OF
conveying IL u Il IdiIIOdl Hbdblbiis ti4r QGudNI
for Barre granite Is Increasing every year i;
not far from | 900 tons, or y 900 cubic feet
lave been qIarrigd the past season large part
Of this beng sent @ Weslern Nertu ont
and Northern New York. Orlers for IL, !
understand. have been recently received from
Ohio and Illinois Let the same amount OF
money b. cX yeude1 AMI tie same energy put
forth tor developing Cuc granite OF NaslIng-
ton county as there have Dcen 10 the marulc
enterprise OF Rutland county, aud DO one
would doubt the success Of the Undertaking.
10 quarry ma-ble, 70 Dig gold, u mine coal,
copper or iron, and raise them u the sIriace
Oh the earth Oftenlmes requires an IInmeus-
outlay Of funds for mere preparatory work !.
and frequently all tie efforts ot the pruJ ctOrs
Of these enterprises prove a1lruye. To
quarry the granite OF Washington county
there is no 1isk in the undersa ing. tue
material SOU bit is seen enough lies a0Ove
the general level OF the surrounding country
to supply, tor hundreds ot years any tcas %
aOie GcmaLd.
On the two bills IN Barre tbe granite ia
found IN nearly hor.l 1uJal strata. varying ia
thickness from Two inches 10 ten feet From
this some geJlOEI-is suppose IL @ he Zueies
winch TOck ~ composed Ut the same UNA era E
and differs only from granite by having "a
distinctly stratihed or slatv structure
mere AZ G tu@E-. ~lFc itDlA4t AAt ~ p
=. where It Is very q. ihcult d decide " neither
the rock he STRAIT Il -! or not; even these
rocks, which AN biologists cone DE tJ be
granite. such as those AZ b are. w en- WORKED.
cgiucc sucu Il j opposition u spi Do certain
direction that the Wurkmru, generally, re-
gard item as STRAIT lied rocks toe strata cor
res Juciu-. with TIE rIiI or cleavage plane
ana Intelligent qua rymcn. WORKING upon
granite. are as careful 20 determine tae d.ret-
tIOu vt the rilt as those engaged IA quar-
IyInS slate.
Granite can readily bc al.t at Git angles
with that OF tie mt Vt cleavage out NOS Up
d dils onal direction. For pillars Designed 81
SUSTAIN great WEIGHT the utmost care should
be taken % nave the ieuStl correspond wl-A
the c.ca are 81 ritz. IaAlu- advantage 9t
TINS characteristic the quarry men run their
lines 90 the rIIt from zen to twl hundred
ieet 30 length duu with ald ei il.i-rJInle
aud wedges The blJc4s are -epalatc4 IRON tie
tt5Ies or sheets. 10 oitan happens when
blocks 81 large dimensions are wanted, that
new face OF q re II sheet must DE itil
open. to remove the edges % tine overly ln1
saccts and expose "A lay-t Do suitable tfck-
ue--. DO der IS used u throw Oh TIE uple
strata 10 man who has never seen gran e
qIarried, II seems mystery DO" blocks
s1veuty-tge or "a hundred iccJ long, sI2 ceu
cut. almost as straight as % sawed from Il
bed vi slld rock. Ouc block, qutrred .ast
season on COb1le Hi, seventy i've ct long,
contained no less than .50U cubic icet, ami
wcjg ied not far from 10 tons
Graul Q. ike sll the other Productions ot
tture requires the irc0rp ration %. human
industry TO give lu 40 c4cIanscshl5 value
The water OF the MerrImlc, tar thousands
u wears. q wed over the rapids opposite She
cities OF LJweil, " tnc Ie-tcr and Lawrence
and no one sixty yeus ago considered 10 oH
ang practical account; tut directed by in
t..ltseuce and humtn skill, 10 is the source
Ut great wea tl, and loss would ot icit
not Ouiv nc h0me but tl-0u-hJut the world
Tne timber Ol oar forests In the place oi
It's ,rJw b has zndll cJmmtr -ial vtiue, bus
a, sJou As II Is cJm1iueI " th the labor oi
tue luin1ernen. It uccJmes an elem mt ot he
utmost importance 10 the prosperity OF the
State.
The inhereat eoergy and the hidden aetiy-
itv OF the sOu. lelt uncontrolled bY human
industry and Intelligence. would never spring
up into the golden cIrO, Or clOthe our heiis
with the rich harvests Of grain.
Ibe thousand streams OF Vermont viii
ALWAYS a. they ever have continue to leap
| from rock u rock in their channels until the
men OF euer and meaus snail direct their
puwer TO effect such changes IN the raw ma
| terrals Of our State tuat shall confer upon
these substances an Intrinsic value that VIII
not only enrich tue PRODUCER, but IN tie
cnauge leave a large margin Tor the manu-
| facturer.