The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-08-20

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ciability and Cooperation
The Temple brothers marble mill 1T
Rutland, which was recently burned, il
now being rebuilt The new factory will
have accommodations for twice the num-
Der of men formerly employed, so that
about rs men will begin work as soon
as the new building is completed.
The course of the long trail from Lin
coin mountain to Mount Horrid has been
Spotted" A party of nine men are
now at work cutting the trail.
The Windsor house property at Wind
sor has been purchased by g. y. Grid
ley from members of the Simonds fam
ily, who have held title, to this hotel
for over 50 years. II is proposed to
organize company with local capital,
remodel the building and make it first
class commercial house.
The Creamery Package Manufacturing
Co. of Rutland has sold more Green
Mountain silos during the last year than
ever before. The company has done a
large business in New York, Pennsyl-
vania and Ohio as well as in New Eng
land. Some silos haze been shipped to
Florida
The recently organized Putney Board
l.. bot ha
accomplished in a short time through
organization. Private houses and pub
lie buildings have been repaired and
painted. The committee ON public i'm
provement has brought about the oiling
of the roads, and has formed plans for
the grading and matchmaking of sew
eral streets. The Board of Trade was
instrumental in opening the attractive
Putney hotel and in securing the sery-
ices as manager of II. j. Kendall.
The apple census of Grand Isle county
recently undertaken by citizens of the
county in corporation with the agri
cultural committee o. the Burlington
Commercial club is well along toward
completion. The form used by the COM
mittee contains the following questions:
How many apple trees have you?
How many acres?
Do you have apples every year?
What is your yearly erops
Do you grow other crops in your or
chard2
Do you spray?
How do you dispose of your apples
Would il be TO your advantage to
have an evaporator plant in this vi
entity?
How many trees have you planted in
the last three years?
What is needed for the betterment OF
fruit growing in Grand Isle?
The slate industry in Fair Haven, the
milled slate town of Vermont, is at
present attracting the attention Of new
capital One of the recently organized
is the New Hampshire Slate
Co.. in which c. A. Clark of Northamp-
ton, Mass, has become interested. The
company is to-day operating three large
and well-developed slate quarries that
are equipped with the very best of slate
machinery, including electric
and compressed air motors, steam en-
yines, self dumping holsters, steam drills
and slate trimming machines. These
luarries were opened about So years
ago, but they were abandoned because
there was lack of capital to work them
Other operators are begin
ming to work the same slate veins, and
the business is being given great inn
Detus in the northern part of the town,
where these veins are found.
Several capitalists from Albany, n. Y,
ire becoming interested in the quarries
On the Colonel Allen farm. These gen
tlemen propose TO put large sum into
development work just as soon as the
plans for the enterprise are perfected.