The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-12-17
THE GRANTEES OF VERMONT
Green Mountain Quarries Lead coun-
try in Value Of Their Output

try in Value of Their Output
The United States geological sur
Ivey has published in the form of Bull
letin 404, THE GRANTEES of Vermont
by I. Nelson Dale. This is a book of
1873 pages full of interesting informa-
ton to the quarrying trade and much
of general interest to the public also.
The introduction says: THE field
work upon which this report is based
was done in 1907 when 70 quarries
and prospects were visited. One
small quarry as visited in 1909 Prof.
G. II. Perkins, state geologist, collect
ed data from two prospects. DR.. AL
bert Johannsen of the United States
geological survey, critically revised
the writer's Photographic determine
tions. w. 7. Schaller, chemist of the
survey, determined the percentages
of lime soluble in acetic acid in ten
specimens of granite. Miss Altha
Coons, Of the survey, has contributed
some statistics of Vermont granite
production. Dr. G.. p Merrill of the
United States National Museum has
rendered some photographic aid. The
results obtained by Finlay and DAILY
from their special studies of certain
Vermont GRANTEES have been utilized
and will be referred to in their
place"
In treating of the geographic distri-
button OF Vermont GRANTEES the bullet
in says:
Not until contour map of the
mountainous portions and of the cas-
tern half of the state is completed
and careful geologic survey based
upon such a map is made will the ge-
ographic distribution and extent Of
the granite areas of Vermont be ac-
curately known. According to the
geologic map of the state traced and
compiled by the authors of the state
report of 1861 and also according to
The geologic map of Orange and parts
Of Washington and Windsor counties
by c. II. Richardson, a series of gran
te areas, varying greatly in size but
mostly small, extend in a northeaster-
ly direction between the central
Green mountain axis on the west and
the Connecticut river on the east for
almost the entire length of the state.
The distribution by counties of all
the granite quarrying centers and of
the prospects included in this bullet
in is shown in figure /. At the ex-
IRENE north end of the state, in Or
leans county. granite is quarried in
Derby, east of Lake Memphremagog
Near the northeast corner of Caledo-
Mo county the newt county south,
there is granite prospect in New
ark and there are several quarries in
Kirby, about IA miles south of New
ark There are also several quarries
near the western corner OF this coun-
ty, 20 to % miles west OF Kirby in
Hafdwick and the quarries of Rye
gate and Groton lie near its southern
edge In Washington county the
southern half of which joins Caledon-
ia on the west, there are three groups
of quarries. The Woodbury. qnarries
at the north and east of them pros
pect in Cabot south of Woodbury. the
quarries in Calais; and 20 miles south
west of Woodbury.. and eight miles
! southeast of Montpelier, the quarries
of Barre. which is the chief granite
producing center of the state. A few
of the Barre district quarries lie south
of the Orange county line. About 20
miles southwest of Barre is the gran
its prospect of Randolph in Orange
county In the northern part of
Windsor county is the small but i'm
portant white granite area OF Bethel;
10 miles southwest OF IL is a quarry
in Rochester, and 80 miles southeast
of Bethel and near the Connecticut is
the green syenits of Mount Ascutney
in Windsor and West Windsor. Fin
ally, in Windham county, toward the
southern border OF the state 81 miles
southwest of Ascutney, near Brattle-
boro and the Connecticut are the light
granite quarries of Dummerston."
The bulletin goes on to describe
the granite and the conditions under
which it is quarried in the several
larger quarries in the state and in
cudes photographs showing some OF
the statues, monuments, etc, which
illustrate the particular uses to which
the stone may be put. 1t says
Among the notable buildings and
monuments made OF Vermont granite
are the capitols of Vermont, Pennsyl
yania and Wisconsin the state library
and supreme court building at Hart
ford, Conn, the union station and the
first and second stories of the Nat
ional Museum at Washington, d. c.
the Cook county court house at Chi
cago, Ill.,, the prison ship martyrs
monument in Brooklyn, ~ Y and the
sarcophagi for President and Mrs. Nc
Kinley at Canton, Ohio"
In statistics of granite production
which form an interesting feature of
the bulletin, it is said
"In 1907 the total value of the gran
its produced in the United States was
$1S,057,3S6, which compared with the
total value for Vermont of $2,693,SS9
shows that this year Vermont produc-
ed 1892 per cent of the total value of
granite sold in the United States. In
1907 Vermont ranked first in the val