The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-02
GRANITE QUARRY
TO Be DEVELOPED
Presbrey-Leland Interests
to Operate in West
DummerstOn
ORGANIZATION TO
BE PERFECTED
BrattleborO Men Interested and Much
Benefit to Community Is Anticipated
Granite Men Back of Project Are
Among Best known in Country.


While full details concerning the plans
for developing the West Dummerston
granite quarry are not yet available for
publication it can be said that substantial
progress is being made and that within
Il short time an organization to be known
as the Presbrey Leland Quarries Co., Inc,
of Brattleboro will be perfected and that
a force of men will be put at work getting
out granite the coming summer.
The company has been incorporated
this week, filing articles of association in
the office of the secretary of state. with a
capital stock of $150,000. The papers are
signed by Clifton III. Presbrey of New
Jersey, w. II. Il. Perry of Waterbury
(Nt.), and Attorney Herbert e. Barber
Of Brattieboro.
Attorney Barber and G. Victor Grant
of Brattlebor0, of the &. IL. Grant Gran
lie Co, were at the town meeting in
DummerStOn yesterday and spoke to the
voters on motion made by Luther
H0ughton that the town exempt from
taxation for five years the plant. machin-.
cry and personal property of the Presbrey-
Leland Quarries Co., Inc, and the motion
was carried by a unanimous vote. The
exemption does not include the real estate,
which is set in the list at 1900.
The speakers gave an outline of what
has been done to bring about the forma-
ton OF a company to operate the quarry
and what the policy of the concern will
be. Attorney Barber and Mr.. Grant hold
the title TO the quarry property which
! will be taken over by the new concern.
Mr.. Presbrey, one of the incorporators
Is president OF the Presbrey-L Leland Co..
Inc, of New York, designers and workers
in stone, and is one of the leading men
in the granite business. The company
owns large granite sheds in Barre. Mr.
Perry operates granite manufacturing
plant in Waterbury,
About two years ago Attorney Barber
and Mr.. Grant took steps to secure the
| West Dummerston quarry property,
known as the George L. Lyons granite
quarry and comprising 230 acres of land.
! ricks. largely obsolete, from the w n
Flynt Granite Co. of Monson, Mass
The land includes large section of the
granite mountain.
Something like a year ago their plans
had advanced far enough so that they he
gan negotiations to interest granite men
IN the quarry, with the result that the
| Pfesbrey-Leland Co. had various tests
made which showed that the granite met
| the company,s requirements, hence the
! incorporation of the new concern.
There are three grades of granite in the
West Dummerston holdings. One is
White granite which Is in great demand
for mausoleum and building purposes, an
other is dark blue and another is medium
grey. All of these grades abound in un-
limited quantity in the " est Dummerston
deposit, and the quality of each is first
class. Additional facts concerning the
quality of this stone will be published
later.
Just what the development of this
quarry will mean to Dummerston and
Brattleboro cannot be foretold with GER
talnty, but there is every reason to be-
lIeve that the entire community will bene-
tit greatly from the prospective activities