The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-06-21
uccnanIr.viIIc Manufactures.
rAHBLE'- RAKE FACTORY.

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One of the most tlourishing manufacture
ing establishments in the vicinity of
Mccbanicsyillc is that of Marshall Tarllc
at the small village of Tarblcvllc. Mr.
Tarblc bought the place where he is now
doing business. some twenty years ago, in
company with his father II was then
valued at thirteen hundred dollars Here
they commenced the manufacture of hand
rakcs, and hoe and fork handles. The first
start in business WAS anything but pros
porous tn the firm. being brought into COM
petition with long established firms in the
same business in every part of the State.
But the energy of Marshall Tarblc, the
promplncss with which orders were always
filled and the unfailing principle of making
all his stock a. good as recommended,
gradually gained him customers and when
once secured they were always retained.
two thousand dollars. He was then en-
ploying from six to ten men the year
round.
Six years after he had started in the bust
ness the proprietor met with an overwhclm-
ing loss by fire which destroyed the shop,
the entire stock ON hand which was ready
for the opening UP of spring trade. His
total loss was rot less than $4,000 and ap-
peared of a disastrous nature for the sue
cessful carrying on of the business. But
the proprietor was not daunted in the least
and commenced at once to rebuild. The
works then built are now occupied by him
in the manufacture of ralcs and handles
and the lumber and clapboard trade. The
main shop is two story, 80 40, with an
extension 16 by 20; chair shop, go by 80 (;
Office and store, 90 by 90; driveway and
store-housc, % by Al two carriage houses,
30 by 20; saw mill, 80 by "a; clapboard
mill, 90 by 40; blacksmith shop, 90 by 32;
store 80 by 40. In addition to these the
proprietor owns four tenement houses, all
in good repair, painted new and barns at
class order. built in good style and repre-
sent successful business.
Mr.. Tarblc has expended upwards of six
teen thousand dollars in building during
the past twenty years and eight thousand
of which has been laid out in the last two
years. During the last year he shipped
siXty-scven full car loads of lumber to diff
fercnt points. The present year he will
al
out one hundred thousand fork and hoe
handles.
His business of manufacturing rakes has
become extensive in amount and world
wide in its reputation. In March last he
shipped seven hundred dozen of common
rakes to London, and is continually filling
orders from all parts of the country. He
will make thirty thousand common rakes
during this year. He now employs thirty
men in the various departments of his bust
ness and still the demand for his goods is
larger than he can supply. The lumber
trade is also extensive. During the spring
he had in his mill eight thousand logs and
has purchased three hundred thousand feet
of lumber: will cut out one hundred th0us-
and feet of clapboards the present year, and
has contracted for three hundred thousand
feet in addition to what he makes at his
own mill.
Mr.. Tarblc is cutting from six hundred
to one thousand cords of wood for the rail
road companies this season. He owns two
hundred and fifty acres in timber him
self, beside real estate, estimated at sixteen
thousand dollars, comprising six hundred
acres in all. He has done much to build
up the village Of Tarblcville, and is ever
ready to aid and assist in all pubic-spirited
and benevolent objects. Mr. Tarble is a
man of iron constitution and does the work
of three ordinary men every year, while
in connection with his outdoor labors of
buying and selling he does all his own cor
respondence and attends himself to the
keeping of his books and accounts
Tarbeville and its community owe much
of its prosperity to the enterprise and active
labors of Mr.. Tarblc.