Show THE MARBLE r INDUSTRY I Chili 1Irhl s ami tin Ituliiuus Ir II mlelllol I From I a long and intcicstin irlielo m the Now York Jftmll in connection with tho nnrblu industry in Now York City esptci dlj the DIMOIUVI notes solute fucH of interest to business men and marblo workers mil owners in Utah One of the largest 1 uuinuf ittureis in this lal bIos trulo ot that city sail As to our marbles let me say thov limo not inferior to tho product of oIly for oiLil quirrv wo mice gojoul 1 statuirv marblo from Uutland Vermont and her Raid Mr liube pointing to souu magnificent Blabs iiare Inllnlfcent aro Hpccimens from Tennpssco with variegated trieerles hi uk marblo from Vermont green from Marv md 1 puiplo brown and chocolate fiom Iciinessco ISO led from ngini i nnd nfl colors and nil tints from far 011 DCS eret in Utah ibis Is nn Industry that requires nnd deserves protection Hut instead of protecting it Congress imido a reduction of m per icnt though vigoious protests users sont to Washington ngilnsl t boy the trdo Had I il not been for tub l I t I nil Ion of Congress there would have been n great development uul I Urge I in crease 1 in our mdustrv I Now n great number of mills have Flopped hero docs the mnrblo woikod up In Now York como from Fourteen thousand tons of white mar bio camo from Italy last yearmnuure bv four thous mil Ilt Il tons t than I It tile t native mar bio used In addition there were twenty five hundred tons of colored marble anti this independent of manufactured Hhbs with which we contend nt great disadvantage disad-vantage on account of reduced dulv For tho manufactured article wo pall last year f300 000 Of the tel thous ind tons of domestic m irblo one half como from Vermont ali the other hal from Tennessee Ten-nessee Vaiiderbllts lomb cost f250000 nnd Jay Gould is preparing n monument for his own lost when ho h is shuHlcd off this mortal cod nt n cost of f75000 fruio prospects 3 Good Xo causo for complaint Wo arc ruunlnl ful mded anti have been all the ear frado would bo much better but for tho competition which loads contractors to import slabs and oilier specialties of our work from HaIr rIse cost of production in Itnlv is lessened bv the uso of water power instead in-stead of steal to run their machinery They put their slibs right hero it JJ cents a superficial foot paying freight mil duty charges when we cant aflord to bell for less limn Jd icnts lilue stone quarried on and near tho hhomelsomu river isa I favorite forsidownlls Mr iuderhiltsciured the largest iltug in New York at a cost at the quarry of tlOOOO I covers tho entire width of the sulownlk and forms the lotnor fag on FiftyFirst 1 street nnd Fifth Avenue Aflerwnrd Mr Stuart pceured tho boss fag stone of the city at cost at the quarry of f2 000 |