Book of home building and decoration, prepared in cooperation with and under the direction of the leading manufacturers of the country (1912)
Brown, Henry Collins, 1862-1961, Lyman, Clara Brown · Garden City, N. Y. Doubleday, Page & Co · leaf 34
slate roof, slate l)eing the only workable non-absorbent stone,can neither rust nor tlecay. Slate is a roofing niade by na.lurc—ii comes direct from the quarry in largeblocks, and is split to jjroper thickness and trinmied to refjuired size. The sub-stance of rock does not cliange no matter what… … mi m TWO EXCELLENT EXAMPLES OF THE SLATE ROOFING MAXUFAC-TURED BY THE GENUINE BAXGOR SLATE CO., EASTOX, PA „^ 20 As early as the sixteenth eeutury slate was used as a roof c(jvering in Europe.And the same slates aie said to be in use on these huildiiis^s to-day. One great achantage claimed for…
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