Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-10-20
: ,sIAND OF GRANITE.
distributed fm Hooks
safe J ? n.cr tne Country.

28 19,rgg handsome anu GOseay
- Dah' architecture, and struc-
stineas arc marvels OF engineering
II : lll. a~arred and polished walls and
II which once lay IN ragged
ssa = little island far out ON the
~ % poaolscot bay. This island is
sen = .terly OF a picturesque pair
s. sol'" North Fox and South Fox,
eFn = incorporated as a town,
ie,a a.7,ertiycly North Haven and
psei ~ II was as long ago as 1865
salaa. - Fox saw its first white set
so,iI twenty-four years aftcrward it
VI ~ Grated as q town, named as
n w. y, Iobn Vinal Of Boston, some Of
sie y ..lstiyes vet live on the island.
s'e ,,berly half Of this sea -girt town
pa .olid mass Of beautiful granite,
gie 80" cuorrying Of this stone has
~ pretty village of 1000 people
Sic i the many snug coves-Carver's
ltOt 4 49, e..
a4;og and paving has been sent from
igayen. but it was not until the de-
Il 1850 1860 that very much was
q n 1851 Moses Webster and j. r.
3.oIl one a New Hampshire boy, the
I, from Massachusetts,, went to the
y ;slapd and with capital of 5000
=. ouarrying operations. They had
,ools and no machinery, but got out
toue the best wav they knew. and
slooly conveyed it to the shore on
-, drawn by cattle. When the gov
- ,sot built two big forts in New York
,.,sor in 1852 or SO, the contract for
1,rlshing the stone was given to Bod
IN & Webster who managed to fill the
f n right, and thus got a good start
.be world. Since then they have pros
...sd and now do probably the largest
arriving business in the United States,
flowing from 500 to 1000 men, as the
,,Ipmc Of trade varies, paying $50, 600
! $4,000 month in wages, and keep
/, the whole island community happy
IA prosperous.
1osee 800 quarrymen, teamsters, black
aiths, cutters and polishers all at work,
hammer and tongs," is an interesting
arbt. Were it not for the fact that
r,nite is found in strata of quite uni
form thickness, quarrying would be q
mat difficult and expensive operation,
nl great part of the stone would be
ra.ted When a quantity of stone is to
s taken out the first thing necessary is
% make head, that is, to cut down
mr through the horizontal strata until
! whole transverse section OF a layer is
exposed TO the foundation. Then, at
he desired distance back from this head,
mich resembles a ditch twenty to fifty
bet long, the quarrymen drill what are
Snovn as Miller holes into the gran
he. A Miller hole consists of three tri-
agalar orifces, drilled close together,
nd some depth into the stone. Gen
nly one group suffices occasionally
no or three are drilled. Into these holes
n poured tremendous charges of giant
0gder, which, when exploded, start
be whole mass of stone as far as the
head from its strata bed. After that
is easily split up by driving little
edges into series of holes drilled
q the dimension line. Immense der
cks guyed up by heavy wire rigging,
I'd operated by stationary steam en-
ines, swing the stone from place to
lace in the quarry, out of their reach
iIers Of iron and hard wood are used
fihe heaviest pieces. Ponderous trucks,
nwn by 1900 pound horses, 90
andering along toward the GU ting
lop with great blocks triced up under
lelr rear axles with chains. The truck
heels being about fifteen feet high, it
u be seen that large stone can be
med IN this way without dragging.
Inc quarrymen work the year round,
q average $1.65 per day; boys. $3.50,
d cutters, $2.75 to $500. All the
os except one kind of hammer are
Insaed by the company.
at the Sands quarry, Vinalhaven, not
ns ago, one of the largest, if not the
,gest piece of granite ever quarried was
ken out for the General Wood monu-
'at at Troy, N. Y. 1t was from ten
fifteen feet square and sixty feet long.
l'er all the labor and expense, how
Y me monstrous stone was found to
osin flaw; it was rejected and
other had to be cut.
! beautiful monument for DR.. Will
7 6lbson and wife, of Jamestown,
M (wao are not yet dead, by the
rs IN process of cutting here. It
! stand on a sarcophagus, and will
lss1 OF tall pillar with ornamental.
Y aad cap, to be surmounted by
~. representing faith. The work has
81 ! TWO Years now, and the monument
cost sos, 600.
! sinalhaven every man can have
al'e uoorsteps, granite hitching posts,
y even walk or curb Of granite before
aO9se, at little or no expense. One
\. VINO lives near the shore has wharf
~ neat white stone for his private
sau there is no reason why ali hands