The Iola register., 1891-01-16
MORE ABOUT MARBLE.
A Letter which Furnishes Conclusive
Evidence that lola Marble will Find
an Eager Market Whenever it Is
Ready to Supply It.

Carthage, No., recently looking after
some property interests he has near
there, he showed some samples of lola
marble to the superintendent of the
extensive quarries owned by a
wealthy st. Louis company. The
superintendent was very much
pleased with the marble and urged
Mr.. Smeltzer to bring some more SAM
Piles to show to the directors of his
company at their next meeting. Ac-
cordingly Mr.. Smeltzer returned to
Carthage last Monday taking with
him a number of pieces of our marble.
The rest of the story is best told in
the following letter which we received
Wednesday:
CARTHAGE, Mo-, Jan. 13, 1891.
G. F. SCoTT, ESQ.,, lola (the Marble
City, Kansas.
Dear Sir: In as much as I prom
ised to inform you of the result of my
trip here, 1 will say that 1 displayed
my samples of lola marble in Messis.
Webster & Bottenfield's office and
met the st. Louis syndicate there.
Some five or six of them examined the
marble very thoroughly and tested 1t
in various ways and We're not a little
surprised at its beauty, firmness,
density and weight. They were much
pleased with it and / hope for good
results, if not just now later OH.
They are a wealthy corporation
owning several large quarries and of
course you cannot get such men to
say, Immediately, what they will do.
They know enough to go slow and
drive sharp bargain. They own
and operate the very extensive "Mar-
BILE & White Lime Quarries of Car
thage, Mo-" and the Superintendent
told me that they had a market for
just such goods as we have at The
Marble City Iola) Kansas. I think,
on the whole, that the prospect is
good.
I have also showed it to the marble
men here and they too are surprised
and pleased with 1t. One, in particu-
lar, formerly a Kansan, and 1 think
he knows good thing when he sees
it, large contractor and builder, is
perfectly captivated with it. He is
one of the finest artists in his line
that l have ever seen, and took a
piece around to his shop and used his
tools on it, and said it cut as fine as
anything in the line Of marble that he
has ever put a chisel on. He uses a
great deal of Georgia marble and says
ours Is superior to that, and that ours
will not spall under the chisel and in
lettering, and said further that he had
just finished big job on the fine
depot on the Kansas City Belt Line
r. II and is very sorry that he did
not have the lola marble to put i'm
instead of that he did use, and as
sured me positively that he will use
our marble just as soon as he can get
not buy until he can get it in car load
lots. 1 might remark, incidentally,
that large marble dealer in Kansas
City, after seeing my samples, re-
quested me to send price list to him
and said he would use the lola mar
BILE. Also large dealer In another |
city made the same request for price |
list, so you see that it takes we'll,
wherever properly shown. I am not |
q prophet nor the son of prophet, |
but still will venture to predict that if |
the marble is gotten,out and sawed up
in proper sizes and the right kind of
efforts are put forth that before the |
close of 1901 more than Sl0O, 900 worth |
of it will be sold, and the future pros
perity of The Marble City assured. I i
would like to add that I am well |
pleased with my holdings here. The |
mining interests in Jasper Co. are
yeloping surprisingly fast and es-
pecially so around Carthage where 1 |
am more particularly interested. The
city is growing rapidly.
Very Truly etc.
d. B. d. SMELTZER.