Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-03-27
OVER $500
A Week in Wages and IS Men
Employed,
Is the Way the Augusta Granite
Company Starts.
OVER $500
The Quarry 10 be Opened roday-0rders
Ahead 70 iviy.

I,is now Little over week since the
merry ,nkle, tinkle Of the stone hammers
va, first heard from the new stone cuttiag
.hed On the North wharf and the public
have not yet become fully used To the new
sound.
Its prophetic sound to many. To
,be business man il suggests the iIngling of
,be coins which he will receive through
IL, agency. To the real estate man il
hiring. Up vision of new houses and cold
cash for the rent. The contractor thinks
Of the sound Of the hammers on the new
hoases be will build and to the person who
ha. the welfare Of the city at heart, it is
suggestive of merry chime, singing glad
thanksgiving over the growth it means to
Augusta.
When last February il was announced
that thc Augusta Granite Company had
been incorporated to work the Fuller quarry
on divers ledge people here did not real
ne how important an industry was to be
added to our material resources
The company organized upon A. capital
stock Of SO 900 by the choice Of James +.
Fuller Of Augusta, treasurer; w. H. Quinn
Of Hallo~ell secretary, and Philip Carey,
now of Augusta, but then of HaIlowelI, su-
perintendent. These four with James Le-
ru..i were constituted a. the board Of di-
rectors.
Mr. Dolan is a heavy contractor in New
York city, doing An annual business which
is well up in the hundred Thousands. The
magnitude Of his granite operations alone,
can be seen from the fact that in his yard
IN New York he gives employment to over
100 stone enters, Through him the greater
part Of the orders will be secured for the
plant here.
Mr. A. r Fuller needs no introduction
To the JorR~AI's readers by whom his
enterprise energy and persistence is we'll
kaown He has long been firm believer
in the future Of the fine quarry which bears
his name AMI il is due to him that this new
and beneficial enterprise has been started.
Mr. Fuller will have charge of the local
financial management of the plant
Mr. Quinn, the secretary, is a member of
the large vholesalc anil retail grocery firm of
Clary Quinn In Iiallow ell and before en-
ter.ng that line of bl-iness hal hal many
years practical experience in the granite
business
Mr. Carey, upon whom devolves the dith-
cult task of looking after the practical man
sgcment OF the plant, is man well qIali-
led for the position, having had "a years
actual experience. first a. qnrryman and
later rs an expert stone cutter. Mr..
i.rHssi, the director, IL also a man of much
experience in the granite business.
The first step toward the rcuiizntion of
the plans of the new company was taken
ahon, the first If March, when long stone
shed was erected upon the North wharf at
M expense Of about $500.
Within the last two weeks. men have been
arriving steadily to secure employment and
when JotESAi reporter called on the local
officers Of the company on Saturday, he
iouni ~ men At work in and about the sheds.
pfthese ~ are cutters, four sharpeners two
boxers and three yardsmen. To-day %
men are coming to 90 to work on the quarry,
.,h, ~, ,gutl NOT t,. ,rnpaI
count of the heavy snow.
To keep the cutters busy until the quarry
is IN shape for the seasons work, the com
pany has purchased of the Dodlin Granite
60 of NorriIgewock, 50 carloads of stone,
which are now being received.
This week the pay roll of the company
will be orer 5000 and it will be consd-
erahly more before it will be less, as the
company now has work enough in hand
to keep its present crew busy until July
and certain other orders are practically
assured which will uecessitate large in
crras' II the crew
The men are now cutting the granite fac
ing' aud trimmings for an eight-story bust
meas block On Mercer street, New York
clty, which takes up the whole front of the
square between Washington Place and
Fourth street
The Augusta Granite Go. receives for this
one JOB st2 900. and they have orders
ahead for nearly as much more in smaller
lots
Mr.. Fuller is convinced that there is a
great opening for the company and says
that even should the market at any time be
dull for dressed work it can always sell as
much of the rough stone as it wishes.
The company is bound to prove ma
terial and valuable addition to our resources
Its employees have already begun to move
into the city and it is believed that over 80
new families will make their homes here
through this agency.
Personals.
Mrs. ). W. Simpson, who has been quite