Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-10-23

not, but this is the fact, that the lever
combination on which the weight
platform rests can be extended and
multiplied in many ways and in all
directions s. SO that it is as easy in prin-
ciple, to weigh train Of cars as cask
of nails. The scale is really a wonder
full thing in itself. 1t has built up for
it's manufacturers name that reach
es around the globe, and built up
among the green hills of Caledonia
county town that honors New Eng
land.
Not far fir ON the scales is an exhibit
from the marble regions of Rutland
county, where Senator Proctor shows
specimens Of stone from the quarries
of the Vermont Marble Co. The ex-
hibit in this particular place is wind
ing stairway in cut and polished mar
BILE, which leads up from the marble
tiling on the street level to the side
of a marble residence as it would be
in the city street. Somebody stated
that this represented portion
of the proposed palatial marble resi-
dence which the honored senator con-
templates building in Washington.
The work shown represents the
beautiful architectural work that
can be done in the marble shop a
thousand miles away, and it showed
the varieties of marble produced, and
some of the uses to which it can be
put. Here also was specimen mon
mental work in granite done by some
of the granite manufacturers. We
were disappointed that we had not
seen more.
In the Mining building there was
very creditable exhibit from this
state, though not nearly as large as it
ought to have been. There was mar
bic from Brandon, Swanton, Rutland,
Dorset, Colchester, Middlebury and
Proctor; granite from Barre, Hard
wick, Windsor, Williamstown, Dunn
merston and Montpelier exhibitors;
slate from Fair Haven and soapstone
from Chester. In this building was
shown the stone channeling and quar-
rying machine built in Rutland and
used in channeling or nortising out
stone by machinery from the quarry
rock. The different exhibitors had
put their articles in an attractive con-
dition for examination, and the show
ing ought to result in booming to some
extent the quarry interests OF the
state.
Vermont had no exhibits in many Of
the buildings, even where her prod
ucts, had the proper effort been made,
might have been creditable. The ma
pie sugar exhibit, point which ought
to have been pushed hard, was some
thing, but it was far below what 1t
might have been. The fact is the
people Of this state never came up to
any sufficient realization of what the
/ fair was to be, and she sacrificed her
self in showing her littleness in the
amount, not the character Of what
] she put on exhibition. We ought TO
have expended a larger sum in making
greater showings along few lines,
among which an important one was
sugar Of course our sugar and syrup
was good and creditable, the circum-
/ stances considered, but-let no more
! be said.
/ The result, as shown by large num-
Der Of premiums received on dairy
products, shows that in the hands Of
the judges, our butter, in particular,
| has been praiseworthy. 1t is demon
| strated that the Vermont product can
not be excelled, and the lesson to be
learned is that we have climate, soil,
grasses, dairymen and dairywomen,
better than the rest of the world
Starting from this vantage ground
| the COW owner ought to turn his tho't
toward improvements = greater and
still greater - until his butter shall
widen it's markets and puts its repu-
tation beyond the reach, if not the at
tempt, Of any rival producer.
At the time of our visit the stock
exhibits had not begun; but when the
| time came, our little state, with COM
paratively small number of animals,
made her showing, and in several I'M
portant lines carried off the lions
share Of premiums. The papers from
| time to time give the result. In Nor
gan horses, in Jersey dairy COWS, in
merino and other sheep, she was rea-
sonably triumphant.
! To the Vermonter who saw the won
dcously great exhibition. in every line,
! it is a great satisfaction to feel that IN
almost, perhaps in everything shown,
we were successful. 1t shows that our