Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1901-07-25
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.


The new shirt and collar factory il
Rutland is giving employment TO oyel
60 persons.
Rutland labor unions are planning 1
big parade for Labor day. Sept.2,
ii is hoped to have | 200 men in line.
The Hardwick a Woodbury. railroad
is doing the largest business in its his.
tory, carrying from ten TO fifteen car.
loads Of freight daily.
JIG Falcon, the diver, is at Shelburne
Farms, to lay 1900 feet Of Pinch pipe
in the lake for the purpose Of furnish
ing supply for the farms.
Excellent stock in large quantities is
being taken out of the Dole-Brill slate
quarry at Northfield, and there is no
let-up to orders which come in Tor fin
ished product.
A slate boom is predicted in Castle
ton. The slate so far uncovered by the
Bomoseen Slate Co. at the quarry
opened last spring is excellent in quail
ity and quantity.
The Hygiene Milk company will at
once erect on st. Paul street, Burling-
ton, a brick building 80 II. wide, 50 IT.
long and four stories high. When this
is completed it is said that Burlington
will have a creamery not excelled by
any in New England.
II is expected that canning will be-
Gin at the Northtield corn factory about
the first OF September. There are
about 225 acres planted this season, 80
less than in 1900. The indications are
that the crop will average about the
same as usual.
Stockholders of the Wetmore &
Morse Granite Co. express themselves
as satisfied with the showing that has
been made during the year. The
quarry, which was run down, has been
thoroughly fitted up with new machin-
cry, so that today it is a. well equipped
rs any in the state.
The contract to build the new cleo
trio railroad from West Rutland to
Fair Haven has been awarded 10 the
Adams Construction Co. Of Niagara
Falls. n. Y. A large part Of the rails
and ties for the new road have arrived
and as the eompany's construction
tools have been sent for. the work viii
probably begin in two weeks at the
latest.
The following patents have been
recently granted to Nermonters: Ed
ward r. Campbell, East Ryegate, nut
lock James Il. Moore and &. 5. Boyn-
ton, assignors to Matted Cereals CO.,
Burlington, making matted flour John
A. Steward, East Clarendon, soldering
machine for can seams Edward Dick
son, assignor to Robin Hood Powder
Co., Swanton, explosive.
A syndicate of New York capitalists.
owning what is known as the Dodge
waterpower in Sheldon, has purchased
controlling interest in the st. Adams
Electric Light and Power Co., the COM
pany has been recognized, and the
result will be eventually that the
power plant in st. Adams will be
abandoned and that electricity for
lighting and power will be brought in
from sheldon, where a large plant is
to be erected.
The power plant Of the Chittenden
Power Co. at Chittenden was sold last
week to the same New York parties
who recently bought the Rutland
Street Railway Co. and the Peoples
Gas Light Co. The price is not given.
1t is an immense plant. The power Is
obtained from the large dam which |
was erected within the past year, and
is large enough to furnish all the pow
er needed for manufacturing purpos-
es in Rutland. Among other things
the local street railway will be run by |
the power from this plant, which is six
miles from Rutland.