River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-01-10
EAGLE LARZ1

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
BILE 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 abundant supply of lumber,
supply sufficient 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 a view to furnishing cheap
| electric power for quarrying purposes.
The marble deposits are along the
right of way of the Spokane Falls &c
| Northern road, which is now owned
and operated by the Great NorthernI
and James j. Hill is Offering special
| inducements in the way of freight
rates to develop this wonderful coun-
| try.
In the New York market Italian
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 a perfect solidity, and can be
quarried and sold in New York for $6
per cubic foot with net profit OF
1870 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 a 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 &c Northern road bisects it north
and south and provides it with mar
kets. 1t 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,
uuarries of onyx and jasper, marble,
granite and slate for the builder, clays
for the potter and the brickmaker,
and in the foothills is timber in abund-
ance. In the Columbia, the Pen
d'OreilIe 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.