Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-03

hold several times tie weight that
granite can bear. A block twelve inches
wide, twelve inches high and twenty
inches long. after having been thirty
days from the mold, stood a pressure
of 100000 pounds at test yesterday
and failed to show the slightest sign
of cracking. fire test given the
the surface after the block had been
subjected to 1900 degrees. Natural
granite disintegrctes at 700.
With this material it is proposed to
produce sky scrapers for Los Angeles
and for San Francisco at minimum cost.
The blocks for the buildings are to be
hollow. the old system of putting up
a steel frame and thereafter building
the stone or brick outer construction
will be done away with and building
as nearly fire and earthquake proof as
possible will result.
The building process in connection
with the new granite was explained
yesterday by Carlo Marchett, general
manager of the concern.
"Senor Gilettis invention will fill al
the requirements for modern building
material" said Mr.. Marchetti.
Has Big Capacity
"Three thousand cubic feet of marble
and granite can be turned out of our
factory in a day. With this process
there can be put little damage from
earthquake unless The building should
be torn from tn ground, for it cam
not crumble. The new building with
these granite blocks is to be made
complete, floor by floor. In that way
many of the fatalities caused by iron
workers falling from the high girders
on a skeleton building will be done
away with. The hollow blocks are to
be placed one above the other in the
usual building way and the steel and
iron uprights or frame pieces will be
run through the hollows in the blocks.
After that concrete is to be poured into
the hollows around the iron or steel
uprghts and when that hardens the
stone and the iron skeleton will be all
the same, the combination of the up
right and granite block being so close
that nothing could cause a collapse
Besides the manufactured granite
makes as handsome building as any
of the costly stone materials and is as
cheap, if not cheaper, than common
brick.
ITO be used in connection with the
building process will be a s. .cial form
of ventilation and heating, the one
made possible through the holows in
the blocks, the other made possible by
hollow flooring. The new factory will
also turn out a specially prepared mo-
sale, inexpensive but so formed that
1t will not crack as the present mosaic
does, causing heavy expense in replace
ing flooring and ceiling.
Will Manufacture Marble
For interior work the factory will
produce manufactured marble superb
for flooring and walling and yet so
much cheaper and stronger than the
quarried product that there can be but
little comparison.
I'm a test of granite last week 1t
was found that the live or quarried
granite crumbled at about just one-half
the heat withstood by the manufactured
article.
I'VE have secured c factory site of
$40 feet on Dayton street, near the
river. and will begin to build the fac
tories Monday. We have placed the
management of the company under
men, chiefly Italians, who have had
years of experience in handling mar
BILE and stone product, and we expect
to make Los Angeles one of the build
ing material centers of the country.
Following are the officers of the COM
pany: S. Giletti president; Luigi Dell
Orto, vice president; "A. Alban Reeves
second vice president; John Lopizichi
treasurer; C, Marchetti, general man
ager.