Gunnison news-champion., 1908-07-17

hun.reds ui fs-rt hong to the
wagon road be,ioW. where. by
anotser derrick, they are loaded
on special trucks.
-Four of these trucks. each
with a capacity oi twenty tons.
are hauled by traction engine oi
10 horse power down the wagon
road. a distance of three miles,
from the quarry to the mill ON
the railroad al tie town al Mar
ble This wagon road has been
put iuto tirst class condition ior
such traction engine aud truckr
by being considerably widened.
as compared with II. previous
width. and we'll ballas1ed with
broken stone.
Prom the mill a standard
.ua.e steam railroad connects
with the CRYSTAL River railway al
Red-tone, which. in turn. con
meets with the Denver \ Rio
Grande railway al tarboUdale,
the marble mill thereby having
access. without change of ear. To
practically every railroad point
in the United States.
Realizing the immense proba-
bilities of the quarIies ahd the
resulting freight therefrom, the
railways have given equitable
freight rates, enabling tins mar
bie To compete, ON equal terms,
with any other marble, whet her
domestic or foreign
THE mill already in operation
Quilt in 100 is DDS ieet long
he saving part fifty feet wide
and the finishing part seventy
four feet wide 1t contains eight
.angs or saving machines,
which are adjustable and saw
marble into slabs of any thick
ness down To wainscoting as thin
as seyen-eighths of an inch II
also contains rubbing beds. lalheS
for turning marble columns aud
uIns, polishing machines and
drills for drilling marble.
Al this mill crude marble is
made into ashlar masonry, col
umns. flooring aud wainscot til
I ing. monumental aud other arti-
cleS. Depending Oh the articles
made, its capacity ranges from
900 to 600 cubic feet nf marble
per day.
"A llfoot extension oi the
aforementioned mill is now in
advanced stage of construction,
making the total length OF the
/ building 700 feet. This exten-
sion will he furnished with twenty
two additional gangs, diamond
saw, circular planer, twelve-foot
| |planer. plauer. eighteen foot
/ lathe and three additional rub
hing beds. maxim" five alto
cpther. All the new machinery
viii have carborundum attach
mruts. The new mill will execute
all and every Kind OF marble work
and will be in operation 10y Aug.
u. The freight from the east
. 'tH AI' ltlbftllltNtN y li't lllf INV
mill amounts to S2I. 600.
! "Ou the completion of such
mill extension a parallel mill.
{ ALSO 700 feet long, viii be com
menced, SO as to attain eventu-
ally total capacity of 100
/ gangs with all the auxiliary ma
chimes such as rubbing beds.
lathps, polishprs. etc.
"Contpmporaneous with the
completion oI the new mill. tray
cling cranes. with a run of 1000
feet. will be installed. whereby
marble blocks can he readily con
veved from the trucks bringing
same from the quarry) TO any
machine on the premises. or
transferred from one machine to
anOther-for instance. from the
j lathes TO the poiiSher-
Continuing. this com mmitter
. tells OF the power plant. which
lights the quarIies and all the
residences and business houses.
I of the building of some fifty cot
tagpS Of four rooms each for the
people who are working in tine
camp. They predict that Marble
viii soon be city of at least five
thousand people, and that Col
orado will have within her bOr-
ders the greatest marble camp in
the world.
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