Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-06-19

PO'She anu CApcileuCeu engineer, are
required to operate it, and the cost of
operation will be from ten to fifteen dol
lars per day, though this is variable.
About four hundred pounds of coal or
half cord of wood a day are sufficient
for its consumption. 1t is locomotive
aud cuts while moving in either direc-
ton, and is reversed with out stopping,
and either or. both sides may worked, or
but one, at pleasure. One hundred and
fifty blows per minute are struck, the
machine feeding forward three-eights of
an inch at each stroke, and each time
cutting from one-half to an inch in
depth, according to the stone
The machine is used not only for cut
ting marble, bat limestone and free and
grit sandstone also. 1t cuts from fifty
to one hundred feet of marble or lime
stone, 'and from one hundred to one hun
dred and fifty of sandstone per day. The
channels are usually cut from four to
six feet deep and from one and one
eighth to one and one-fourth inches
wide, except in sandstone, where they
are two inches wide, and channels four
feet deep can be cut for one-third the
cost of hand work. The. company also
manufacture single gang. machines with
upright boilers, which cut cithervertical
or inclined channels and are designed
for working on ledges. and at points
where the dip of the stone reaches an
angle of forty-fye degrees or less. Ma
chimes for working on sandstone have
features peculiar to themselves. The
machines are made of three different
widths, to cut channels four feet and
one inch, six feet three inches and six
feet seven inches apart.
Besides'thcse in use on Vermont mar
Bile quarries. there are machines at work
Maryland, in the Lake Superior region,
Con grit sandstone) in Missouri, in Ohio,
in Illinois and Massachusetts,, over sixty
in all, being in present use.
Besides the twelve American patents
owned by the company, they have Cana
dian, French, Belgian. and British pa
tents, and were awarded silver medal
and diploma at the universal exposition
at Paris in 1867, besides having several
diplomas from agricultural and mechan-
ical societies:
All the parts of the machine are made
at the company's manufactoTy, with the
exception of the heavy frames, which
are wrought at Nashua, New Hamp-
shire by the Nashua Iron Company +;
and the boilers, which are built by j.
". Holmes, of Rutland The machines
are mostly wrought iron and made III
the most substantial manner, in the
hands of skilled workmen, under the
immediate personal supervision of Mr..
WardwelI himself. '5f ..
The largely increased demand for
stone for building purposes necessitates
the use of such a labor-saving machine
as this Is. It's labor-saving capacity can
he readily seenby a comparison with some
OF the most popular and useful inven-
tions now; in use. The sewing machine
does the work, 1t is estimated, of twelve
spamstresses. The moving machine
supplies the place of six men with
scythes Wardwelrs machine does the
work of from arty to one h,tqdrea men,
according to circumstances, varying with
| the character of the rock and local for
nations, Thus it viii be seen that, as q
layor-aaving machine, it ranks among
the highest. 1t does its work well,
too, the channels being cut straight as
sawed surfaces and the stone is taken
out in good clean shape, the saving OF
stock alone, in some quarries, being sut-
ficient to cover the cost OF q machine
in a single season.
The business of the company is stead,
ily increasing, and no doubt they vii
soon be compelled to enlarge their facil'
ties for manufacturing. The machines
become better liked as they become more
widely known. although their introduc
ton was at first no easy task, as ole
preiudices had to be well broken dow1
before their adoption could be secured
and much expensive and long continued
litigation was encountered by the pro
prietors before the were entirely free tt
90 before the world gith the invention
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