The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-05-01
From the Burlington Free press.l
The Industry OF BURLINGTON,
THE MARBLE MILL OF TIE BURLINGTON
MANUFACTURING COMPANY.


The Industry OF burlington.
THE MARBLE MILL OF THE BURLINGTON
MANUFACTURING COMPANY.
Nothing has lately gratihcd Us more than
to note the signs of activity and success in
the new marble mill. The mill, as most of
our Burlington readers may remember, oc-
cupics the great building originally erected
for the rolling mill of the old nail works
The manufacture of nails proving unprof-
liable, the manufacturing company, after
much dcibcration and delay. decided to
stop IT, and go into the business of saving
and finishing marble. This was new
branch of industry for our city, and in
starting it has had to meet with the delays
and trials incident to new ventures. Some
of the saving machinery first put in proved
less substantial than was desirable and had
to be rebuilt. Then Mr. Barnes planning
mill at the cove, which supplied shavings
for fuel at the marble mill. burned. and
there have been other difficulties to over
come. But the company has pcrscvercl /.
has steadily enlarged its operations. and is
now doing an active, and to all Appearance,
thriving business.
The machinery is driven by powerful
steam engine of 200 horse power, and CON
sists of four gangs of saws, soon to be in
creased to eight gangs two large circular
rubbing beds, each twelve feet in diameter :
marble cutting machine, for cutting the
moulded edges of table tops, &c; blocking
and polishing machines an elevator with
the lathes, drills, Nc, of the machine and
repair shops, attached to the mill
The saving is in constant progress. day
and night, a large portion of it being de-
voted a tbp HIutr # tl,n I1arl- I q,
Motto marble and Brandon marble, for
floor tiles, in which the company does a
heavy and increasing business. The two
marbles correspond eXcellcntly in hardness.
The contriyanccs introduced on the rub
bling beds on which the surfaces are rubbed
down with sand, secure perfect uniformity
of size and trucness of angles in the tiles.
and in these respects the tiles manufactured
by this company surpass all others. The
pieces selected for table tops, mantCl
shelves, &c, after being cut roughly into
shape with chiselS, are taken to the cutting
machine, in which the moulded edges are
cut, by rapidly revolving edges of hardened
steel, substantially on the same principle as
the cutting of wooden mOuldngs. The
machine cuts the edges on round, square or
oval pieces of almost any size, and saves an
immense amount of hard labor The plain
Hat surfaces arc polished on rubbing beds,
on which platens covered with felt coated
with polishing putty, are drawn rapidly to
and fro by machinery over the surface of
the MARBLE Much of the work of finish
Ing, however, is not adapted to machinery.
and gives employment to good many
hands, cutting the grooves and headings,
chisellng out the carved brackets and me
dallions for the mantels, and polishing the
ornamental work. The polishing is done
by rubbing down, first with sand stone,
then with pumicc stone, and then with
Scotch hone, finishing with felt and French
putty, all with liberal supply of "elbow
grease
The Company takes the entire product
of the Piarry Of the Brandon Statuary Mar
BILE Company, and Of another Brandon
quarry. 1t has also, by the way. leased
the saving mill of the Brandon company,
in Brandon, and does considerable por-
ton of the saving, near the quarry. The
Company also use considerable quantities
of the blue and clouded marble from the
Pittsford quariies. The whitemarble from
the Brandon q irry Is of remarkable fine
ness, is harder than the Rutland marble,
and when polished, gives a surface like
porcelain or the finest ivory In these re-
spects it is unrivalled, and wins favor
wherever it is seen.
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