The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-10-16

HardwIck's Great BOOm-Fine High Co
Moves for ManuEsctures-MOre Notes q
l. the Demonstration That Vermont IL tn
Place for Vermont Energy and Capital
A party of Barre granite dealers and man
ayers have visited the new granite quarrie
just being opened near Chelsea village. ant
state that they found an unlimited Guantit.
of high colored fine grained granite, as goot
rs any yet discovered in Barre. A railroad
Is being strongly agitated from Chelsea vii
lage through Tunbridge to South Royalton.
The Snowden Slate Company. a newly IN
corporated concern, has leased the Capt
Joseph Sheldon slate quarry at Fair Ha, Ell
and Will soon be on the market with supe
rior grade of roofing plate.
A new company has leased the Christie
Machine Shop and Foundry at Brandon, and
will operate them In the manufacture OF
stone-cutting machinery.
The Willard Manufacturing Company OF
st. Adams reports heavy business with ne
cessity of increasing help.
The new plant of the Bristol Manufactur.
ing Company Is nearly ready for occupancy.
j. E. Smith & Co.'S bobbin shop at Mont.
gomery Is again In operation under the man.
agement of Rhode Island party.
The wooden mills at Bridgewater are un'
dergoing repairs.
"A
Bristol Thursday and Friday samples of lime
were shown and slaked, proving to be of
good quality Near the same place Is bed
of sand and fine clay, just suited for brick
making. 1t Is understood that preparations
for making brick will be begun at once, and
that the limeklln will be fully developed.
This will give work to several men,. and ul-
timately may prove big thing for the town.
The Woodbury. granite company of Hard.
l. npf f..r I'm 81
arloads of stone for the new court house In
Worcester, Mass. 1t will cost $1,000 to trans
port the stone from the quarry to the depot.
The st. Johnsbury board of trade Is con.
siderIng proposition from man In Maine
engaged In the canning business to move his
to that town.
At a special town meeting In Tunbridge
motion to exempt all manufacturing indus
tries that may be established there from tax
alton for term of ten years was carried by
unanimous vote. As soon as the meeting was
dissolved party of capitalists started for
Brock lebank hill and an offer OF more than
half million capital has been made to the
owners of the granite hill If company Is or
ganized. Work upon the hills will begin this
week
Thirty million dollars for the farm pro-
ducts of Vermont this fall Is a showing that
might excite the attention of even western
farmers Of the Green Mountain state since
the close of the war. The sugar, dairy sheep
and grain crops have all responded to I'M
proved methods, and there Is aswing of pros
perity In the air. Boston Journal.
w. II Fullerton. of Manchester. Is en-
thu siastic about Har,lwick granite which he
Is largely engaged in quarrying. They talk
about It being a second Barre, but we think
Ii will be even more than that. We took an
order last week for about 125 loads of stone
to 90 into the new court house at Taunton.
Mass. The building will have about one
third Hardwick granite and two thirds OF
The pink stone quarried at Fall River, Mass.
BY Beatte. We clsim to be able to get out
.tone and freight Il 100 miles cheaper than
)ther localities can even quarry II. and TO be /
,be TO break out bigger blocks than any
lther quarry In the world. That sounds /
rather large, perhaps, hut mean II. We got /
,ut last fall a block IL feet square and 80
feet long without an imperfection of any
kind. and the other day broke one measur- |
ng over 30 feet I'm every direction. We
,ould get a perfect block 30 feet square and |
700 feet long. There T. one layer or perfect |
tone 30 leet thick which seems practically /
without end
Lewis lessee. a Frrnchman. was shot and 4
instantly killed In drunken quarrel by Peter
3oulel at Marlboro Sunday afternoon.
John A. Markham, a IIolyoke hackman,
vas convicted In the superior court Friday Of
he charge Of shooting MS wife, with intent
o XIII Feb. 3, but he was recommended to
mercy. |