Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1906-02-22
CON TRACT LET
FOR MONUMENTS
MADISON DEALER GETS VALU
ABLE WORK.
PICK, WISCONSIN GRANITE
Wisconsin Vicksburg Park Commits
sioners Choose Monticello Rock and
Award $4,000 Job to F. M SchIim
gen-Badger State Military Organ
ization to Be Represented.
Madison. Feb. q

Madison, FEB. Il
General George f. Bryant, Colonel
William f. Villas and Colonel A. G.
Weisscrt, constituting the commits,
sion appointed by the governor to Sc
lect monuments to be erected on the
siege line at NiCIishurg, Mississippi.
10 commemorate the services of the
Wisconsin soldiers in the mem prablc
siege and capture of Vicksburg in
1868, yesterday awarded the contract
Tor the 5numohlS To rrca NJ. ScnI.n-
gen OF Madison.
The contract pr ,yidcs for 20 monu.
ments at cost Of 100000, represent
ing the following organizations OF
Wisconsin soldiers who participated
n the siege; the eighth eleventh,
twelfth, fourteenth, sixteenth, seven
teerlh eighteenth, twentieth, twenty,
third, twenty-hIth, twenty seventh,
twenty ninth and thirty third infantry
the second cavalry and the first, sixth
and twelfth batteries.
Eleven cr the monuments will be
II feet high with a military base OF
about ten feet square, The mona
ments will be solid granite and con,
structed of the famous Montello gran
lie from Wisconsin The commission
for the Grant memorial al Riverside,
New York, after investigating all the
GRANTEES of the world, selected the
Monticello granite on account Of its
a. l,#tt t,1 tr., /. a,
and finish II has the reputation OF
being the finest granite for monrr
mental purposes to he found in the
world The stone is II a rich mahog
any color and susceptible of high POI
ish The Monuments will he all pol.
iSaod and the lettering, cut through
,he polish into the stone, will have a
gray background making a delightful
contrast In color and atordng insCrip
ttons which can easily DC Ivp. ST.
long distance, The military bases
will he made of the best Barre Ve.'-
mont granite. This stone is Of "a
i handsome bright color having almost
/ the appearance Of white marble at "a
! iltle distance but is muyl more eur.
/ able than marble The appearance
/ Of these rich mahogany colored monu.
4 ments T. feet high aud erected on the
/ light colored bases against the rich
green background of the park, win be
very striking The commission be.
| heves that more elegant series OF
memorials cannot be procured by any
state
The designs for these monuments
are original and rhslic They were
selected by the commission after an
inspection Of large number Of de-
signs especially submitted for this
work
The large monuments will mark tho
position OF the siege OF the vari WIS
organizations. There are seven
Of the Monticello granite. which will he
- placed as 10 mark the position at.
tanned at the front by each OF the
seven regiments that participated ia
the charge on Nicksburg May -,
1868. when the assault was made I'm
der General Grant
BY the term of The contract, the
monuments are to be in place Aprl
II. 1907 They will he located in the
national military park which covers
approximately an area Of ten miles
long by six miles wide The award
II 4 credit a. Mir Schlimgen and Mai
son as wen, for the designs submitted
by him came into keen competition
With dealers from Boston. ST Louis
Barre, Vermont, Milwaukee, and other
cities OF the United States