The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-05-18
Marietta Leads i'm Trade
i'm this Line.
S4,31O PER MONTH PAID IN WAGES,
The Shops in Marietta Visited by Our
Reporter Who Gives Some Crafty.
ing and Encouraging Facts.

Iue marble industry Oh the South
assuming gigantic proportions.
Georgia leads the Southern States,
and Marietta is the center of this
industry.
1t has just been discovered IN the
last few years that cold mother
earth" in the northern part OF Geor-
gla IS full of marble of variety of
colors. 1t is now being quarried
every day in vast quantities and
shipped to different states OF the
unicn. 1t is being erected into
monuments and handsome buildings
that will proclaim for Georgia
supremacy over the other States in
the marble industry. The gentle
men that are engaged in the marble
business in this place claim that
Marietta turns out more work and
pays more wages than any other
town in the South.
There are four marble yards in
the city, and the Kennesaw Marble
Works, which is situated just on the
outside of the incorporate limits.
1t was our pleasure to visit the
yar1s last week and note the work
that is being done by them. The
first yard we visited was that of
Messrs. R. NJ. McNeel & Co. They
are doing large business, employ
ing 10 to II hands on an average.
They pay cut $500 per month ior
wages. They have been in business
seven months and have disposed Of
SIS, 100000 worth of marble in that
time. They engage the best work
men ana send out no inferior work.
They have recently petitioned to be
incorporated as The McNeel Marble
Company. Mr.. D. I. McClatchy is
connected with this firm and is an
expert in marble of large experience
and knows how to turn out satistac-
tory work.
The next visited was the shop of
Messrs. Motley & Butler. They
employ IA hands and pay out $3.50
per month. The beautiful and ar
tistic monuments in their yard are
evidences of the skilled workmen
that they employ and their success.
They are enterprising and are turn
ing out vast deal of work.
The shop OF Mr.. L. s. Cox was
next visited. He employs 3 to 4
regular hands and pays out $50 to
$40 per week. He is kept busy all
the time filling orders which are
rapidly coming in. His work is of
the best quality as he employs none
but skilled workmeu.
We next visited the shop of Mr..
j. D. Northcutt, who works 10 men
and pays out in wages 500 per week
and disposes of $500 worth of mar
bic per month. Mr.. Northcutt has
not been long in business, Tut has
butt up trade which is unsurpass-
ed. His work is fine as he employs
no interior workmen.
We saw Mr.. George T. Newell,
Manager of the Kennesaw Marble
Mills. He says that they employ at
the works rs hands and do a
wholesale business. The mill is ex-
tensive and output immense. From
another source We learn that the
Mills pay over $4,000 III wages per
month.
The total number of hands worked
in the shops and mills here is 1855
wages pad to hands 4,otO.OO per
month.
The gentlemen that we visited
all say that the future outlook OF
the business is ver5 encouraging
and that the demands are increas>
ing. The shops and the mills use
Georgia, Vermont and Italian mar
BILE, but the Georgia marble is chief
ly used. They all have men on the
road who are daily sending in large
orders Dc,
The marble industry is just in it's