Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-01-09

Vermont marble in every market.
There are several good reasons for
this this. The main reasons are the
superiority of quality and the cheap
ness of quarrying. Most marbles are
quarried beneath the surface and
hoisted out. The Washington marble
are quarried and then skidded down the
mountain side to the cars. Other mar
bic industries lease land and build
railroads in order to get rid of their
waste material. The Stevens county
marble man simply dumps his waste
down the mountain side, upon which
there is an abundantSupply of lumber,
a supply stuff cient for all building pur-
poses and for all packing and Grating
for at least 20 years to come.
Within 20 miles of the marble beds
the enormous energy which lies in the
falls of the Kettle river is being har-
messed with view to furnishing cheap
electric power for quarrying purposes.
The marble deposits are along the
right of way of the Spokane Falls &
Northern road, which is now owned
and operated by the Great Northern;
and James ]. Hill is offering special
inducements in the way of freight
rates to develop this wonderful coun.
try.
PaVOnaZZa never sells for less than
$12 per cubic foot 1t is badly shat
tered marble. The Stevens county
marble duplicates all of the Italian
| markings, surpasses it in beauty, pre-
sents perfect solidity, and can DO
quarried and sold in New York for S.
per cubic foot with net profit Of
1910 per cubic foot.
The beds from which this matchless
marble comes rise from the sandy flats
of the river, appearing in some places
in long, unbroken slopes up which one
may climb to height of 500 to 700
feet above the river level, travelling
on solid marble all the way. These
slopes are in many places smooth and
solid, the pattern of the marble show
ing unbroken at the surface. In other
places the marble rises above the
river level in great bluffs, one above
another. In many places the marble is
found in smooth floors at the SUBMITS
and in broad slopes dropping to the
river banks.
A great deal of the marble at the
surface is cream tinted and is crossed
with jet black veins, resembling in
pattern the famous Pavonazza marble
of Italy, but much more solid and is
free from the pit holes which damage
the Italian product. 1t takes an ex-
tremely high polish and retains it, and
it's texture is dense, uniform and very
fine crystalline, showing in many
places marked translucency. There is
one tract alone of this marble destined
to rival the Pavonazza which contains
1910 acres and which is capable Of
producing the finest marble for CEN
turtles to come without exhausting the
supply.
This is not the only factor which has
given Stevens county the reputation in
the Northwest of being one of the
most wonderful counties in the United
States. Stevens is the northeast cor
ner county of Washington and con-
tains 2,945 square miles of territory
and about $4,000 people. The Spokane
Falls & Northern road bisects it north
and south and provides it with mar
kets. It is semi-mountainous, and in
it's mountains are gold and silver for
the treasure hunter, copper and lead
for the industries, lime and cement,
quarries of onyx and jasper, marble.
granite and slate for the builder, sclays
for the potter and the brickmaker,
and in the foothills is timber in abund-
ance. In the Columbia, the Pen
d'Oreille and other valleys which these
rich mineral mountains inclose are
thousands of acres of the most fertile
land imaginable, land upon which all
kinds of fruits and cereals are being
raised in abundance, amid scenery
which is beautiful beyond description.
s. GLEN ANDRUS.