The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-01-09
BARRE GRANITE ADDS n
TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT.
C.D.NIATERS APPOINTED
BARRE CONSTRUCTION
MADE BIG JUMP
Nearly Sl5oooo Was Expended in
Building Work in 1919 and Much
More Is Contemplated.

| If construction is a barometer fol
progress and prosperity, then the yea
1919 was a prosperous year for Barre
industries and Barre people. Building
Inspector Oscar Slayton has just CLOSED
his books for that year, and in total
ing the aggregate of new buildings, re
modelling, improvements, etc, finds
that not less than Sl46, 100 has beer
expended in construction work in this
city. 1t is a marked contrast with the
year preceding, when the approximate
expenditures amounted to but S2l ,f95
This expenditure of 1919 is greater
than any during the war period, ana
for several years back. 1t was un'
doubtedly the termination of the wal
which caused such an impetus. Granite
manufacturers and property holders Of
nearly all Barre industries were loath
to expend money III the unsettled, un-
certain war days.
The year 1919 was also an unusually
fruitful one to Barre, in that the Barre
Board of Trade landed the Peerless
factory project. A new industry was
brought to Barre and building costing
approximately $4,000 is being built to
house that project and industry. That
alone might be considered progress
enough for one year by some municipal
tiles, but not by Barre.
Granite manufacturers have by ne
cessity found it necessary to extend
and enlarge their sheds in order to meet
the increased demands for Barre gran
lite. Money spent for additions and ex-
tension Of sheds and offices aggregates
to approximately S4l 800, to say moth
ing of the vast amount spent for ma
chinery and other equipment.
The following is list of the granite
firms which expended large sums OF
money for extension in their sheds or
offices: Jones Brothers Co., shed ex-
tension, new Office building; Cook &
Watkins Co, extension to the Black
well street building now being made,
addition to Depot square shed, repairs
TO office, other repairs; Young Brothers
Co, extension to shed; Lille Granite
Co, repairs and addition to shed; John
son & Gustafson, additional shed; Ger
rard K Barclay, restoring shed after
fire; L. A. Bugbee & Co. extension of
shed, other repairs; Presbrey Coyken-
dali Co.. extension to shed and machine
shop; Marr & Gordon, new office busl1-
ing; Grearson 4 Lane, improvements
and addition; Anderson. Friberg, addi-
tional shed. garage and recovering
stoneshed roof; Barclay Brothers, new
chimney; Carswell, Wetmore & Co,
boxing shed; North Barre Granite CO.,
shed; Waldron Shields &
Co, compressor room and repairs; Alex.
A. Milne, additional office.
Other important constructions during
the wear aside from the granite indus
try was that of the Peerless factory;
II. +. Cutler & Son. repairs to garage
and show rooms: j. A. Fields. a two
tenement house; ID. NJ. Miles Coal Co,
improvements to coal sheds Thomas
Carroll, house remodelled on North
Main street; W. y. Taylor. addition to
house; w r. Cameron, addition TO
store; Angelo Scampini. new barn:
Charles Cole, garage on Beacon street.
Harry QuinlaD, addition to home; HON
IF I.add, garage; James Hastings, addi-
lion to repair shop.
Were II possible TO estimate tho
AMOUNT OF money spent by granite
for new and modern ma
,hinery during the past year. figures
hat would nearly correspond With !
hose already quoted would ,ndouhted' !
v be written again ss the approximate !
,ost OF new mechanical tiey!res
The wear 1920 bids fair 10 be equally |
.uccessful in the granite Industry. S9tA !,
n business and construction. i. 5 aa- |
lerstood chat 205-feot she'd is tc be |:
.rected near the Hoyt { Milne shed CT
Depot square by Waldron Shield X c.. |
lext spring. The Hoyt & Milne firm IL !
,lso contemplating an addition of many
eet to its present plant. These are
wo OF the 1920 possibilities that ere
ure to be followed by Others.