Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-09-18
THE RUTLAND HERALD.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER &c. 1878.
A SUGGESTIONS


5. A SUGGESTION! m rs
II A few days ago, there assembled in
New York city, mass meeting, COM
posed of some of the most successful
commercial men in the whole country,
to solve the great question of cheap
transportation. The Senate Committee
on transportation, met about the
same time, and, between the two, the
subject was brought very conspfcuously
| before the merchants and business men
of the country. The work of this mass
meeting appears to have been very
large production of talk, some emphatic
resolutions, and the organization of
cheap transportation company. These
were all very well, and we hope that it
will not be the last we shall hear of the
cheap transportation company thus or
ganized. We have all along advocated,
as the only remedy for high freights, a
more active competition, and greater ia
cilities for the transportation of the
burdens of grains and beef from the
| Western prairies to the Atlantic sea
board, and we think that people are
generally looking for relief by that
method
The questions involved in the raising
and transportation of breadstuffs, are
not confined to the productions of the.
world. AS we have heretofore took oc-
casion to say, the interests of the pro-
Queer and consumer are the same, and
no class can monopolize the blessings or
grievance of life. All the elements of
society are knit together in great band
of union, that makes each. necessary to
the prosperity and success of all others,
and in this age, where the energies of
the world are directed, as far as possible
to the annihilation of time and distance
between the different sections of the
country, where the speed of lightning
and of steam is only used to convey in
telligence, it becomes question of equal
Importance, how we can lessen transport
tation, as how to cheaper it. We know
that great national industries are only
J sustained and prospercd by the inter
= change of the products of one section of
the country for those of another" has
become to be regarded as business
axiom, and we are not going to contro-
vert it; but while admitting the general
: proposition we desire to suggest an ex-
ception in the case of raw materials
used in the manufacturers arts. #e,
t We have. in our own town, strik-
ing illustration of wasted labor and ex-
: pensive transportation of refuse marble.
+ Rutland is one of the large marble pro-
ducing communities in the world. Our
, ouarries are convenient and exhaustless,
= and the statues, monuments and marble
- fronted blocks that are going up all over
the land, are using the marble that Is
, raised from the earth here, to say moth
e ing of the ornaments and parlor furni
ture of marble that decorates the tasty
- halls and parlors of the citizens of tht
n nation, and the marts of public bust
dess. To prepare the rough blocks iron
, the quarry, for the uses for which they
y are designed, and the places they vii
!" ultimately occupy, large amount O
= skilled labor must be bestowed upoE
them, and the actual specific gravity o
C. the beautiful statue, monument, or 9th
er article of marble, when it is ready
for use, is much less, probably not hal
N on the average, that of the block iron
which IL is made, the rest being Gu
Il away by the saw, chisel, lathe and cthe
machinery of the mechanic and artist
~ Now, is it not evident, that the heav.
n lifting and loading of this surplus weigh
d and the drawing of it in long trains
over the mountains and plains, or o
X deeply laden boats, over lakes and riv
era. az an absolute waste of labor ant
cnergy2 ..-......
ct We ask the question, for the considt
p ration of practical men. Why is 1t no
= cheaper and better to build all necessaT
mills. factories and machinery, by th
g side of the quarry, bring the artists an
workmen here, and send away only tn
nc finished article ready prepared for the
place in business and social life, instea
+ of transporting, with the necessary ma
IL HE an equal amount of rubbish and r.
froo stone the length and breadth OF th
A. land. AS it is with our marble so 1t
n with our timber that clothes our mout
-, talns. 1t is a waste of labor, waste
~ energy and waste ofmoney in freights'
e. send our chair stock, ourocard boards an
err stocks for hundreds other articles OF Ga
n, w use from our quarries, forests al
mines, to Massachusetts, Connecticut
~, " and in some instances to Ohio, limo
r. and Louisiana, to be manufactured In
list useful and ornamental articles, that cou
be made as cheaply and well right her
I'm where the raw material is found?
there is an objection to this method
relieving transportation lines of the
Dor and consumers of the expense
freighting unnecessary rubbish and m
lions of tons Of waste, we would like
~ here it, if not, we should like to hear
10 expression of the feasibility of haVi
80 these manufacturing interests to viii
- we have referred, developed near our
~ posts of marble, and in our forests
'er' on the undeveloped power Of our wal
VS. courses.
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