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Georgia Is Proud of It’s Product— GEOßGlA MARBLE
Throughout the Entire Country Stately Buildings Stand as Monuments of Famous Georgia Marble
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Georgia Marble Beyond Question the
Greatest in the Whole \V orld. ’
Garnnult Agassiz, in the National Magazine.
It IB only within the past few years that Georgia marble ha*
been known to the world. Many years ago, before the aborigines
were removed to Indian Territory and their lands thrown open to
white settlement, the Cherokee Indians were wont to carve their
kowls and other rude craft from the marble that outcropped on
every hand, but It was not until 1850 that Co |o nel Sa m u<fi Tate,
from Whom Tate, the center of the marble field derives its name,
by acquiring title to most of the valuable marble lands of lKktll
founty and establishing the firm of Tate. Adkinson & Company, lald
the foundation, modest though it was, of the present great marble
Industry of Georgia.
Tiie industry of that day was conducted on a radically different
basis, however, than the present one. Only tombstones and monu
ments* of a very modest character were produced, and a» hand la Dor
and the difficulties of transportation made their purchase prohim-
Gve, the demand was a limited one, indeed. < olonel Tate realized
this, hut ho had an abiding faith in the future of Georgia marble.
HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, OA., StTNDAT, WOVEMBEB 18, 1913.
and died counselling his children to hold on to the lands that were
destined one dav to be valuable, beyond all calculation.
GEORGIA MARBLE'S POSSIBILITIES HERALDED BROADCAST.
Georgia marble was too valuable a commodity to lie undeveloped
long. Its possibilities were soon heralded abroad, and before very
long the capital necessary to its development was forthcoming. Soon
after this the old ox-wagon was superseded by the iron horse, the
old hand tools by powerful sienm implements, and Georgia marme
was given a fighting chance in the markets of the world.
That it has made good Its enviable record is the greatest vln
dication. Practically unknown twenty years ago, Its popularity has
increased steadily, until to-day State house, library, office building,
bank constructed solely or in part from Georgia marble raise theti
proud hearts In almost every Important city in the United States and
Canada, permanent monuments to the commercial and artistic prog
ress of the nation.
THE GEORGIA MARBLE COMPANY, OF TATE, GA.
The Georgia Marble Company, by far the largest operators In the
Georgia marble district, Is composed of Colonel Sam Tate, president;
Mr I. E. Tate, another member of this illustrious family so closely
identified with the discovery and development of Georgia marble, as
Vice president: Major S. H. Wright, treasurer, and Mr. K. W. Hoorn-.
secretary All of these gentlemen are thoroughly and practically ac-
I quainter! 'with 'he every detail of the marble business, as well as the
scientific side, and have bad many years of experience. Major
Wright, the treasurer, has been with the company for twenty years,
is one of the best-known men In the State, and numbers Ills friends
in every section of Georgia, in fact, as is to be exacted all of
these men are among the ablest of the citizens of the Empire State
of the South, Which is most fortunate In having such types of mod
ern business push and enterprise at the head ot one of Georgia s
greatest and richest Industries. Mr. H. I* Litchfield, private secre
fury to and personal representative of President Tule ' al8 f " “ !
tor in this company and one of the many younger men to be found on
the extensive grounds of this plant.
Georgia marble la peculiarly well adapted for buildings tj’at are
constructed for permanency as well as show It has through
no other ston i can boast, ranging from an almost pure wI JIU through
the varying tnartes of gray and pink to a pronounced blue and
black. And the marvel ot It Is, these colors occur In forma
tions. a condition peculiar to the quarries of North Georgia and
small part of Alabama That is to say, a quarry can be depended
upon to produce the colored stone that is indie:tied by the i surfi
outcropping. The matching also is penect, making It I e artstouat
of all finishing stones, whether for exterior or interior w ° rk -
A modern building must be not only phasing to the W
ag fiT
effice building on# of the ehl«f forces to be reckoned with 1« . V
wind, which subjects a tall office building at times *o a pressure o j
twenty pounds to every square foot of surface. That is to say,
skyscraper with an exposed surface area of eighteen thousand reet
has to withstand a wind pressure of four hundred to five hunarea
thousand pounds, equal to the combined pulling capacities or i,iju n
horses.
THE GOVERNMENT USES GEORGIA MARBLE.
In the erection of Government buildings Georgia marble is also f
playing a leading role. This Is as it should be. A Government
building is Intended to be a monument to the national life, some
thing to serve the needs of to-morrow as well as of to-day. Too
often in the past Government architects have designated Italian
marble as the building stone to be employed in the construction o
certain public buildings. Neither is this custom confined to the
Government. There are, unfortunately, too many architects m
America who share the fallacious belief that the imported Is su
perior to the domestic marble—because It is Imported.
GEORGIA MARBLE HAS A TREMENDOUS FUTURE.
Georgia marble has a wonderful future, both as a building ston#
and a monument, and it can be said without exaggeration that in
t»*n years’ time there will be ferw large towns in the country that
not possess a building constructed from it, and few cemtttnfli in
which it w ill not perpetuate the memory of some fond lost one.
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