A- LITTLE JOURNEY TO THE • HOME • OF VERMONT-MARBLE . •^,.- V J?15»s8in»i! ■. • ;, • 1 Vi'-',y; ■;. .':t^ ,.;;,,‘';'l'ja^ ■ V '■ :;:y W‘;;:;s .U' i>’.^j;,V:--w^yi.;'':,;;j.!-- ‘.. ,■''' 'v ;,' f-yy'-'S ■'’'■'<>^'-'H\--'."-' :':.'*fev?Bil iVy-i *•'■ }‘ ''■'■f ' y.' •<'./•<:■■ ■■■ty, ". ' ' ^’-'j , ">t*V ■' ffvv V -''v ; ' : . '■ ,'■ -y yylt : :J- .' ' ^ ■ ■■ ■'\"'■ ■ „.A!iv:i--v-..,'^v i"X.ui [ . ’ • • ' . ,• '*.• ; • • ',!■■ H ■ ‘ . ,,^', '. : .•,/•>;• «.’vA*J' '■»•“ O'-'T •* 'AT. "i, " ^ ’ t •' • . 'N'.* • ■"*; - ■.s'iii;-:*-:, s'- s: VERMONT MARBLE COMPANY PROCTOR. VERMONT t Main Plant of Vermont Marble Company at Proctor. Back of the mills is the trail where the sand buckets go over the mountain A LITTLE JOURNEY TO THE HOME OF VERMONT MARBLE Pictures taken here and there in the Qreen Mountain region which show some¬ thing of the development of the marble industry The third printing ot a little booklet published by the Vermont Marble Company in August, 1922 Pirtsford Valley Quarry showing some of the concrete piers which support its outer walls [4] Quarry Channel¬ ing Machine cut¬ ting out marble blocks from floor of quarry The Channeler averages about 150 strokes a minute, and moves ahead one inch at every stroke I 5 1 1 16 ] Corner of storage yard. West Rutland, where about 12,000 marble blocks are piled Electric Drill, or “Gadder,” boring holes in the chan¬ nel courses for the wedging apart of the marble blocks Wedging along the lines of drill holes to divide the courses into blocks [ 7 ] Section of inclined cable road over which blocks are raised from the underground marble quarries at West Rutland, Vermont [81 Quarry Block with derrick rope at¬ tached ready to be lifted from its bed Unloading Quarry Block at one of the storage yards 19 ] [ 10 ] Mill No. 19, West Rutland, Vermont. Built in 1920. Length 450 feet, width 140 feet [ 11 ] Interior of Mill No. 19, showing steel framework and electric transfer track for loading and unloading marble Middlebury Plant Center Rutland Plant True Blue Mill Alaska Quarries Florence Plant On these two pages are illustrated some of the plants which are manned and operated by the Vermont Marble Company. These combined shops and mills are fed by the output from seventy-five quarries; they send out approximately 1,000,000 cubic feet of marble every year. They are equipped with the best ot modern machinery and linked together by railways and power lines. These pictures with the figures that follow tell their own story of the expansion and development of the marble industry. Swanton Works [ 12 ] Albertson Works Manchester Works Floor space of shops and mills, 27 acres Grades and varieties of marble pro¬ duced, 50 Deepest quarry, over 300 feet Quarrying machines, 218 Gang saws, 436 Rubbing beds, 112 Polishing machines, 90 Turning lathes, 26 Pneumatic tools, 450 Hydro-electric power generated, 12,000 H. P. Annual output of quarry blocks, 21,000 Weight of average quarry block, 15 tons Largest block ever quarried, 63 tons Land owned by the Company in con¬ nection with its marble business, 26,500 acres West Rutland Plant Danby Quarries [ 13 ] [ 14 ] In the Shops at Proctor, showing marble cutters at work ! 15 I [ 16 ] Crating for shipment the eighteen-ton marble bowl of the Scott Memorial Fountain, Detroit Aerial Tramway which brings sand into Proctor mills at the rate of 500 pounds every 28 seconds At the top of East Mountain where the two-mile tram¬ way leads down to¬ ward the sand pit [ 171 [ 18 ] Hydrating Machine in Lime Plant, for converting quick lime into water-treated lime powder [ 19 ] Falls and Power House, Proctor, with a generating capacity of over 3,000 H. P [ 21 ] Village Square, Proctor, with Municipal Memorial and Sutherland Club in the foreground [ 22 ] Memorial Library, Proctor [ 23 ] The Proctor Hospital AVERY LISr.ARY COLUMBIA UNI', The Barta Press, Cambridge r I