How we are sheltered; a geographical reader (1906)
Chamberlain, James Franklin, 1869-1943 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co.,ltd. · leaf 152
rse, worth seventy-five dollars, forthe land on which the marble quarries at WestRutland, Vermont, are now located. This landis now worth millions of dollars. At first, quarrying was very slow work. Theblocks of marble were hauled by teams a distanceof twenty-five miles, but in 1857 a railroad… … Fig. 53. — Marble Quarry at Proctor, Vermont. i HOUSES BUILT OF STOXE 137 on each side of which they cut a groove aboutone inch wide. Sometimes these grooves arecut to a depth of ten feet. The saws that do the cutting have no teeth.They are of soft iron or wire driven back and forth
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