The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-10-11
GEORGIA MARBLE.
THE MARBLE SHOPS AT MARIETTA.
From Frank Leshe's Illustrated PAPER.

at Marietta, Ca, are the most ex-
tenslve works Of the kind in the
State They are situated in the
midst OF tract of land owned by the
company in the suburbs of the town.
The tracks of the Marietta and
North Georgia and the Western and
Atlantic Railroads run into the va
rlous yards of the works. The mill
building is 435 feet in length and
40 feet wide. The machine shop is
% by As feet and the engine and
boiler house 81 by 40 feet. A $50
horse power Corliss engine is the
motive power, and the mill is COM
pletely filled with the latest, most
novel and most improved machines
ever yet devised for the manipula-
ton of marble. The machines are
devised for saving, cutting, counter
sinking, molding and finishing mar
BILE. They also own all the patents
on the Maloy cutting and counter
sinking machinery; also the patents.
ON the Maloy molding machinery
and improved saws. This machine
ry is for cutting all kinds of mold
ing on marble and other stones.
There are no less than eighteen diff
terent patents covering these oper-
ations in all OF their parts The
company has three of these ma
chimes in their mill, each one doing
the work OF more than thirty. This
machine will do any kind of cutting,
counter-sinking, beveling, paneling
or holding of marble or other stones
thai is now is now done by hand,
and will do it for very small per-
centage of the cost of hand-work.
Entering the mill, the sight pre-
sented is simply astounding. -Four
hundred and thirty-five feet is a
great length, and when every foot
of the way ON both sides is filled
with complicated machinery in mo.
ton, the eye is somewhat bewilder-
ed. The varieties of work being
performed by each machine, and al.
most by each workman, causes in
the mind of visitor sense of con-
fusion but after calm, reasoning
survey, the uninitiated finally COM
mences to "catch on" to the various
manipulations. The noise, howev-
err, is like Bedlam, and here a wheel
chips around a block of marble at
the rate of a thousand or two revo-
buttons minute, while it squeaks
like thousand nail-machines as it
runs along; and there you see a
majestic marble column, 3 feet in
diameter and nearly 90 feet in
length, going around in digniGed
manner in the clutches of a nam
moth lathe. Here are great Grub
bling BEDS" II feet in diameter, and
three of them in row. Here are
turning lathes, from the mammoth
with the great pillar described down
to the most tiny lathes imaginable.
And here are monster machines
that weigh over thirty tons and cost
$4,000 EACH All moving and car
rying with them great blocks OF
marble weighing several tons each,
which are being dressed and polish
ed ana futed on all four sides at
the same moment, many of these
newly invented machines doing the
work of forty or fifty men per day.
Here are the 'lightning saws" the
patents owned exclusively by the
company, making 200 cuts per min
ute; besides steam buffers, polishers
and huge machines for grinding 200
tiles at once. We were shown tiles
that, when simply laid alongside
each other, the joining could not be
discovered by the naked eye-all
owing to the wonderful perfection
of the company's new machinery.
The mill contains sixteen gangs
of the fastest and most powerful
saws ever devised, with innumera-
BILE machines for grinding, polishing,
cutting, and for special work on
statuary, carving, pedestals, vase
effects, etc. AS fast as the immense
blocks of fine marble are turned in
to the mill in their crude state, they
are put through the various MANN.