The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-18
TIE ROANOKE TIMES, SATURDAY, OCTOBER Is. 1890
VIRGINIA GREEN BUILDING STONE.

"A Useful, Practical and Ornamental Build
ing Matcrial--A Great Industry for the
State.
In this practical age of ours. where
the needful anxieties of life are becom-
ing more and more sought after, in order
to make life pleasure instead of n
burden, and where the necessities of
life can be had with as little force ex-
pended as possible, it is always a pleas
ure to welcome to the front any new
device or mechanism, whether of me-
chanical manipulation or of the raw ma
terial ready to be fashioned into shape.
and in this respect there has probably
been no industry contemplated or in
prospective which appeals to the com
fort, sustenance ands happiness of man
KIND as the discovery of the uses of the
VIRGINIA GREEN BUILDING STONE.
The merits and advantages of this
magnificent stone for building purposes,
as well as for Ornamentation can scarce
~ viii be enumerated in newspaper
article, but OF it's relative merits il is
proposed to state few reasons why This
building material. found within our own
doors. can be so utilized as to make it
enc of the greatest and most practical
industries i'll the whole South
In consulting several of the largest
builders and architects in the East rela-
tive to the merits of this building stone,
1T was generally conceded by these
practical men of affairs. that this stone
possessed excellent qualities for build
ing purposes, facing and general 0rna-
mentatiOn in decoration. wherein brick
and stone enter. Its durability. firm
ness and cXpedicncy in securing it in
large quantities, not TO speak of it's
beauty and general susceptibility of
polish and finish, are but Il few adj
vantages in its favor. The accessibility
of this stone to the markets of consump-
ton and use, together with the ad-
vantage Of being monopoly (as it is
only found in Southwest Virginia, and
in parts of Germany, make it a commo-
dity of special significance and value.
The further fact that it can he used
many ways, not only as pretty, but as
most excellent building material is
also another great advantage this stone
possesses over other commodities of a
like nature.
When 1T is taken into considera ton
how cheap this building stone can he
furnished the customers, and the great
advantage it possesses over brick and
other common stone, it will be readily
seen how it will find it's way into public
favor and general use.
The eNigencies and demand of the
times require a complete and substan-
tial material in the building of the age,
and our contractors and architects, alive
to the aesthetic taste of the century. are
following closely in the footsteps of the
French, who, in the manipulation of the
Mansard roof, have combined the useful
with the ornamental, thus Civ
ing Il pleasing contrast with the
old time-serving mode of architectural
beauty and finish.
The Virginia Green Building Stone
will soon play most important part in
the evolution of pleasing architecture
and building productions.
This stone only needs to be seen in or
der to fully satisfy even the most sllept-
ical that it is to-day ono of the best
building materials known to the age.
The already unanimous Endorsement
given it by minerologists. builders and
men of science, is of itself Il sufficient
guarantee that it possesses qualities
surprising any other building stone in
the markets OF the known world.