Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-12-11

DESCRIPTION OF THE QUARRIEs, PRoDUC-
TIoN AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE
OF THE EAGLE SLATE COMPANY, NEAR
HYDEvuLE.
This company are pursuing their bust
ness with the same activity which they
have been wont 10 DO, and seem little
affected with the panic or hard times.
They continue the sama number of
workmen they have had through the
summer and fall, averaging about 15O,
and their sales are apparently as active
as ever Their superior slate stock,
twenty years experience in the business,
their capital and skill, enable them to go
along undisturbed by hard times.
Their works are located about a mile
south of Hydeville. The first opening
was made here in 1862, but the company
was not incorporated until 1853. 1t
was soon thereafter organized, and the
manufacture of roofing slate commenc-
cd under the superintendent of DIR.
Middleton Goldsmith.
The manufacture was commenced on
small scale; the business was then
new as there were not then over half
dozen openings beside the Eagle in this
slate region, and those were being work
ed in the way of experimenting. The
Eagle company were soon, however, do
| ING quite business In the manufacture
| of roofing, and continued in that branch,
increasing in amount each year until 1869,
when they erected mill on their grounds,
and soon thereafter mantel, or marbleiZ-
| ing, shop, acutting shop and other builc-
ings; adding thereto the necessary fix
lures and machinery for the manufac-
ture of mantels, billiard beds, hearths,
tagging, tile, etc.
Since then they have been and are
now doing as large if not the largest
business of any establishment of the
kind in the country. Their manufac-
! lures consist Of the largest variety of
articles now made from slate and their
roofing manufacture is still continued.
Wemay judge of the reputation of this
/ company and the excellence of its
| manufactures from the wide extent and
sources of its patronage. The company
sent the first slate, all the way by rail,
| to California, furnished the hlackboards
| for the public schools of Texas, furnish
ed fioor-tiling and roofing for hotels and
| public buildings in New York, Boston,
Chicago, st. Louis and other cities; and
have a large contract tor roofing and
I flooring the new Post Office now build
/ ing in New York city. They are now
| the sole manufacturers of red thing,
which combined with other eolors, make
/ such beautiful floors for halls, vestibules,
| churches, public buildings and saloons
The company own a red slate quarry il
| Middle Granville, from which the rec
slate stock is procured. -lz::: 8.
| The company now own about l7S
/ acres of land, which covers the quarrie'
/ now worked, and it has been aseertainec
| that a large portion of this land is un
/ derlaid with rich beds. of green and pur
I pie slate. s.. \. 49,: .'..
| Their stock, as good judges say, can
| not be exhausted for century to come
| with any force that may be supposed
| will be employed to work it. Z;
1 The mill and works are located at th'
| foot of emain openings. Their quarriet
| here are worked to the depth of 190 fee
i from the surface, and thence six tunnels
penetrate a hill to the distance, of :60t
| feet, and the stock is removed thence b,
Il railways operated by steam. :5sl
4 In the mill are twelve gangs of saws
six planers, various machinery, including
i: hoisting apparatus, -all operated by.
steam engine of 100 horse power: Al
II their machinery seems to be perfect
4 and; the work to be, done with a system
and skill unsurpassed by any concern i
the country. ~ Z. 81 y ~ s.
Il The most competent artists are em
i ployed in their marbleizing department