Perhaps it should be noted that the names given in the foregoing list are the ordinary trade names under which the different sorts of stone are commonly sold. It may also be noticed that a few of the specimens of marble and granite sent from the State Cabinet came from quarries not now worked, but they represent varieties found in the state and such as may at any time be worked and put on the market.

Further remarks upon many of the varieties of stone enumerated will be given in following pages.

As has already been noticed, there has been advance in all respects in the stone industries of Vermont. This is notwithstanding the fact that both the granite and slate business have suffered from strikes during the year. In the granite industry the strike of six weeks' duration does not appear to have seriously affected the sum total of the year's work, though probably it has to some extent. The strike in the slate district has been more injurious and prolonged. The effects of this have been disastrous, not only to the slate business, but to all others dependent upon it.

From this general consideration of the mineral industries of Vermont it will be profitable to pass to a more detailed examination of each by itself.

MARBLE.

Vermont has been known as the marble producing state since very early times and it still holds the supremacy which it has so long had. In the U. S. Report on Mineral Resources for 1906 the statement is made that "Vermont produces the greater part of the marble of the United States, the value reported by this state in 1906 being $4,576,913, or 60.36 per cent of the total marble output of the United States."

These figures, however, do not express the real supremacy of this state in the marble business, for, as has been noticed in previous reports, if we exclude the coarser kinds of marble, such as can be used only for building, and include the finer grades alone, such as are used for monuments, interior finish, etc., we find a much more striking array of figures. According to the United States statistics as given in Mineral Resources for 1906, the total value of the marble used for the purposes named in the United States for the year was $5,787,769. Of this amount Vermont supplied $4,402,924. And it is not only in quality that the Vermont marble stands first, but in

variety. As was stated on a former page, there were fifty varieties exhibited at Jamestown, but there are now on sale not less than sixty distinct varieties of marble. Besides these there are at least half as many that are found in so small amount, or are so difficult of quarrying, or for other reason are not commonly taken out and worked, that they are not offered for sale, though many could be obtained if desired.

If every possible variety of marble, or what is so called in trade, that can be obtained in this state were to be counted, I think that the number would not fall far short of a hundred. So far as I am aware, no other state can approach this number of varieties. But this is not the whole story, for if anyone can look over any adequate collection of Vermont marbles, he will be greatly delighted by the beauty of many of them.

The Vermont marbles are at present quarried and worked by the following companies, named in alphabetical order.

BARNEY MARBLE COMPANY. This company is really a part of the Vermont Marble Company, but it is carried on as in some measure an independent concern. The stone quarried and worked by this company is very widely used in many public and private buildings. There is no other marble found in this country which is at all like that produced by the Barney Company. In trade the different varieties are known as the Champlain Marbles and Verde Antique. They are all hard and the former, of which there are many varieties, though only four are regularly placed on the market, are colored in various shades of red mixed with white, while the latter, as the name indicates, is green, white and black.

The red marbles are quarried at Swanton, the green at Roxbury. BRANDON ITALIAN MARBLE COMPANY. This is one of the older companies. It has large mills at Middlebury, where the water power of Otter Creek is used. Here all the quarried stock which is not sold in the rough is sawed and finished. The company has two quarries in Brandon and one in Pittsford. The Old Brandon-Italian and the newer High Street quarries produce light marble and the Pittsford quarry a dark.

THE BENNINGTON MARBLE COMPANY. This is a new company and is not yet fairly under way. The office is in Dorset.

THE EASTMAN MARBLE COMPANY. This company has no mill but quarries the stone in West Rutland.

J. K. FREEDLY'S SONS' MARBLE COMPANY. This company works quarries high up on the east side of Dorset Mountain. The marble