Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1899 — Big Granite Shaft. [ARTICLE]

Big Granite Shaft.

Several granite firms in Barre, Vt., are figuring on the longest shaft made from one stone that has ever been manufactured in this country. According to the plans, it will be 5x5x70 feet, and will weigh in the rough 150 tons, and when finished 110 tons. The shaft is for a private individual in New Jersey, and will go into a monument