The Portland daily press., 1882-08-08
The Immense Contract which the Halo
well Granite Co. are Executing.

The Hallowetl Granite Company are row
engaged in the manufacture of the finest mon
nment in the world. It is to cost $75, 900. The
Dayton (Ohio) Journal gives the following his
tory and description of the work:
Some four or five weeks ago j. W.
Carpenter of the firm of Carpenter & Ray
mond, had occasion to visit the east with a
gentleman and wife of jamestown, Pa, DR..
VIM. Gibson, one of the fellow travellers of
Mark Twain in his "Innocents Abroad" For
wears DR.. Gibson has contemplated the erec-
ton of very fine monument, and in his trav-
els abroad he has made the subject special
study. Some months since he made call on
several leading monument builders for plans,
and among those invited to compete were Car
penter & Raymond of our city.
The plan submitted by the firm was SO COM
plete in its details that DIR. sGibson took its
construction under serious consideration, and
requested Mr.. Carpenter to visit the east with
him for the purpose of inspecting the principal
monuments of the country, visiting Washing
ton Baltimore, Philadelphia New YORK and
Boston, and from Boston they visited the
great auarries of the Bodwsll Granite Com
pany at Vinalhaven, Maine, and of the Halo
well Granite Company of Hallowell, Maine,
in both of which companies Carpenter and
Raymond are stockholders. The companies
own sixteen of the finest quarries known com
prising all shades and eslors of granite. When
the doctor, who had frequently spoken of the
immense stone at Baalbec, in Syria, that was
quarried by the ancients centuries ago, came to
view the great Quarries at Vinalhaven, repre-
sented by Carpenter and Raymond, the won
der at Baalbec paled into lnsigniflcance. he
found here company with every facility for
ouarrying handling and shipping column of
greater magnitude than had ever been dream
ed of by the ancientS lie found company
capable of producing and handling solid
base of granite, 100 feet square by almost any
desired thickness, and owning their own veS-
sells for transporting. and their own steamers
for pleasure and business. After the vlslc TO
Vinalhayen they went to Hallowell where lay
those great white quarries of Hallowell granite
the finest granite known on the face OF the
earth, and owned entirely by the Hallowell
Granite Company. Here can be produced from
that purest of pure white granite, that is so
popular for monumental purposes, blocks OF
any required dimension, anywhere from ~ to
16 feet in thickness and from lO0 to lou feet IN
length From the photographs presented to
us by Carpenter and Raymond OF four or i've
of their quarries, we can readily see that the
sight must be grand.
The result Of this trip was the closing of a
contract with DIR. Gibson for a seventy-fiye
thousand dollar monument. This is the high
est priced private monument that has ever
been erected in any country, and its construc-
ton has fallen into hands that justly pride
themselves on their fine work.
On Mr. Carpenters return home he waG call
ed to Chicago to close contract with the soci-
ETY. of B. P. o. Elks, for a large elegant pedes-
tai surmounted by bronze elk. From there
he was called to Cleveland, where he closed o
contract with the committee for a bronze stat
ute of the late Henry Chisholm, which is to
surmount massive granite pedestal, the same
to be placed in the Lake View Cemetery,
within two hundred feet of where the great
Garfield monument is to stand.