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award has been sustained after an ex- haustive examination of the physical The Booster in Antlered Herd To Make Colorado-Yule Marble and aesthetic qualities of our marble by Lindley M. Garrison, secretary of war, Its New Dress at Carbondale Better Known in the Marble Trade who had the signing of the contract with the George A. Fuller company, who The Booster comes to you today in a Several hundred members of the B. P. presented the lowest bid on our marble. By new gown and one that we feel mighty O. E. gathered at Carbondale last Sat- J. F. Manning, President and General Manager Those dealers who have a marble job urday night ks guests of the Spudville to proud of. We believe we are safe in do in white marble, and who desire i Elks and it was some occasion. Ant- to present owner tes- no It is my desire that every interior ing named buildings, in which Colora- the architect and claiming that paper in Colorado is lered brethem were there from Aspen, our ex- one marble finishing shop and monumental do-Yule marble is used, should take a timonials of marble by marble any better printed than this and Glenwood, Marble, Gulch, Emma, Ba- dealer throughout the United States day off and visit one of the buildings perts or the leading architects of the this is a great satisfaction to the editor salt, Grand Junction and half dozen oth- country, secure same owner, we our should become acquainted with Colora- that they may know what Colorado-Yule may copies of and for realize short- er towns, even as far away as Denver, us do-Yule marble. marble is like. It has an atmosphere from by writing for them. comings in the editing of the paper and , and whenever and wherever such a large by We do not bring every dealer to see that no other white marble possesses, The next article about the Colorado- we seek to make up the difference | number of Elks foregather, you may be Yule our inexhaustible marble deposit, fully and an interior decorated with it has an Marble company will be written excellence of printing. sure there will be something doing all general developed, with over 30,000 square feet individuality that no other marble can by George B. Taylor, assistant Quoting Van V. Boyce in the last is- the time. of floor space, and with ample hydro- give it: manager and superintendent of office. sue of “Printer’s Album:” Carbondale Elks were lavish entertain- typo- electric operated machinery to quarry The interior of the Municipal build- “Mechanical finish and stylish ers and the event was one that will live graphy are only through and deliver to our mills over a million ing, New York City, is finished in our obtainable the long in the history of that enterprising cubic feet a year of the most beautiful Golden Vein stock. Big Work on the use of proper, up-to-date material. And town. Elks and their ladies danced from time coming, not right now, white marble produced in the world, in The interior of the Cuyahoga County the is if 9 o’clock in the evening until after day- when the antiquated blocks of any size that can be transpor- court house, , Ohio, has over Sight office with the light the following morning, when they Coast in will be so handicapped as to ted by railroad cars, and while many of 60,000 cubic feet of our marble, and is equipment still had plenty of “go” left in them suc- the marble experts, pronounced one mar- entirely go out of business. The to stopto catch their trains home. noted architects of the best white J. F. Manning, president of the Col- but had and large contractors have examined ble jobs in the United States. Most of cessful printer of today is the one who Elks and their ladies Who went down orado-Yule Marble company, returned ever on new our property, and we also have hundreds the job was selected for heavy is the lookout for methods from Marble on a special train Saturday mark- Monday from a trip to the Pacific coast prospect- of buildings and thousands of monu- ings. of attracting the attention of afternoon included: I. M. Kobey, Frank where he delved into a lot of matters ive customers, and he is getting them ments scattered over the United States, The interior of the Youngstown, Ohio, P. Frost, Henry King and Barrett of interest to the company, including through use stylish type faces all bearing testimony that Colorado- court house is finished in our selected the of Brooks. In addition the train carried the at least one job of national importance, and new, modern machinery in his Yule marble is the standard of high Golden Vein stock, and although not so Marble orchestra, which supplied the that will run a half-million or more, plant. ’’ quality, we are not satisfied until we large as the Cuyahoga County court music for the dance, and several others. and which it is believed this company The Booster is now equipped to do have every marble dealer, whether fab- house, those who have seen it pronounce Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Gibb joined the will get without question. In fact our kind of printing and do it right. ricating marble for interior work, mau- it a “gem” in marble work. any Marble party at Redstone. The special marble is specified. Mr. Manning also an abundance new soleums or memorials, fully cognizant The interior of the Douglas County We have of and returned Sunday afternoon at 1 o’clock landed several smaller contracts, among stylish type, good presses and good of the unexcelled quality of our white court house, the Woodmen of the World after bucking snow every foot of the them being marble for the interior of and we assert that no office in marble, of the extent of our quarries, building and the Union Pacific head- printers, way from Redstone here. the new St. Francis hotel in San Fran- state, cityor country, can turn out our capacity to fillany orders, that our quarters building, in Omaha, Nebraska, the cisco and the residence of Senator Fair. any nicer work than we do. mills and finishing shops are equipped are all finished in Colorado-Yule mar- Mr. Manning established W. J. Fine glad to hear from our with the best electrically driven ma- ble, are a day’s to We would be Together on and well worth time out on coast to conjunction as Get or country. the work in many readers to what they think of chinery in this any other any one in the marble business to in- with A. J. Mitchell and he believes this That the marble dealers throughout the newly dressed Booster. t spect. team will make a winner. There is Post Office the United States fnay know that they Job The Chicago Telephone Company build- plenty of building work in sight out can be supplied with Colorado-Yule ing and Rand-McNally Company build- there, he said, and the C. Y. M. is go- The three lowest bidders on the Den- white marble promptly, and to assure ing, Chicago, Illinois, are finished Last Rites for ing to get somewhat more than its share. ver postoffice interior, all of whom, by them that each and every department throughout in Colorado-Yule marble. The Mannings came near being ma- the way, were above the appropriation, is in charge of an expert in his line, I M. Pratt The Rialto building, Kansas City, rooned in Southern California on the re- Miss are to be given a chance to alter their have arranged with the editor and own- Mo., the Monward building, St. Louis, turn trip by floods, of which we have bids so that, ifpossible, they may get er of The Marble Booster, Mr. Frank Mo., the Southern Pacific building in been reading so much in the papers re- The capacity of St. Paul’s Episcopal them down to a sum not too greatly P. Frost, to subscribe for 600 copies of Houston, Texas, the Foster building in cently. The Santa Fe train on which church was taxed to the utmost last above the appropriation. The contract- his paper, which will be sent out each Denver, Colorado, and the Newhouse they were returning Eastward was the Friday afternoon by the friends who ors will meet the architect this week in week, without charge, to the interior to buildings in Salt Lake City, are all last train through *the flooded district. gathered to pay the last sad tribute New York and go over the situation. marble finishers and monumental men, wainscoted and decorated with our mar- The desert in that district, ordinarily a Miss Maude Pratt, whose untimely get this con- and I hope they will follow the articles Should Colorado-Yule ble. sweep of sand and dust, was one solid death took place the day before. tract, as seems entirely probable, it will from week to week which will be writ- at were con- The exterior of the Denver post office sheet of water, Mr. Manning said. The services the church make a nice side-line to the Lincoln ten by the heads of the departments of and the Colorado State museum in Den- ducted by the Rev. Oliver Kingman, Memorial, amounting in value, as it the Colorado-Yule Marble company, in ver are our mar- examples of exterior Card of Thanks whose interpretation of the Episcopal does, to something over half a million which they will describe in their own ble work, and they are pronounced by For the ministrations and kindly of- rites was impressive and beautiful. dollars. language the quarries, mills, finishing as were Wilson, architects and sculptors being the fices of all our friends who aided The bearers G. B. Arthur shops, and all branches of the business. and Mertens, best white marble buildings in the Uni- comforted us during the sickness and Lyons, Henry Ambrose Wil- Each week there will be an illustration ted States. liams, George B. Taylor and Dr. F. B. death of our beloved daughter and sis- Mill printed of some portion of the quarries was this, News In It and other work that ter, we expressing Stephenson. Mrs. George Tays presided or plant been take this method of has executed in our marble, that our heartfelt appreciation. Never, at the organ. The casket of lavender The in itself is interesting, as Short Measure paper attracted the attention of , while life shall last, will these plush was covered with wreaths and it gives notes of interest of our kind- many architect, and the nesses be forgotten. E. 0. Pratt boquets of flowers. town and a description of the work be- Commission to our quarries when they H. D. Pratt Saturday morning the body was Mr. Manning brought back word from ing completed in our finishing shops. the coast that the Heilman and Mer- I hope, therefore, that those dealers chants bank buildings, which are being in marble to whom this paper will be finished on the interior with C.-Y.-M. sent will read the articles and come to stock, are attracting great attention krtow Colorado-Yule marble and the man- out there. These are two of the most agers of the company's departments. It beautiful jobs ever finished in this mill. would be a great pleasure to me to have As the result of some attractive ad- as many of them as possible visit Mar- vertising of a special combination offer ble during the coming summer, as words in monuments, the company’s monu- can not convey to them the extent of mental department is receiving some our marble beds and the magnitude of nice orders that will make some addi- our operations. They could then meet j tional help needed in that department. in person the Operating Committee of The| Booster printed the circulars that the Colorado-Yule Marble company, brought in this work. which is composed of the heads of de- H. D. Pratt, general superintendent, partments, and become satisfied that hopes to be able to make an announce- their for a every order, whether mark- ment to the trade soon regarding a * er or for a “Lincoln Memorial” would line of novelties which he is having have that care that is always exercised made in the mill, and which is destined competent by an intelligent and super- to make a sensation among dealers in intendent, and be assured of careful se- such art work. The Booster will at- lection of stocks and artistic fabrication tempt at no distant date to describe of their orders. some of these novelties. We have been several years getting the development of the quarries and From Carbondale’s “Item.” the equipment of the mills and finishing V. T. Brown, who rendered such val- shops in their present state of efficien- services to the River Rail- cy, and as our capacity for is uable output Colorado-Yule now such that we can quarry in the road company and the Marble company while serving in the coming year a million feet of marble, capacity of auditor, has been selected we desire every one who wants the same company as claim agent. highest class of white marble to know by the They know a good man when they see that their orders can be filled, and it is one, and felt that they could not get our wish that as much of this product get along T. as possible marketed through inter- without V. be The local marble cut stone company ior mills and finishing shops, so that our AN INTERIOR QUARRY 8CENE AT THE C. Y. M. COMPANY’S NO. 8 OPENING. has received the contract for furnishing capacity for finishing marble may be de- the fora publicbuilding in Grand as Lincoln Mem- voted to such jobs the placed for shipment Junction, to be constructed soon. It will were looking for white marble And still they come! A letter from aboard the train to ’ orial and supplying the monumental the best twenty cars of material, the Lincoln Memorial tem- D. N. Clark of Shelton, Conn., reads: Rutland, Vt., where it will be buried require about dealers who have no finishing shops. to be had for beside Pratt’s mother and sister. and they will commence at once to take on the banks of the “Enclosed please find check for $2 for Miss We are in a position to supply finishing ple, to be erected their property near C., a subscription to your paper. I am very E. O. Pratt, father of the dead girl, the material from shops with blocks or sawed slabs to fill Potomac at Washington, D. and al- some of thousands much interested in the welfare of Mar- accompanied the remains East. Carbondale, where they have | their requirements. though our bid was higher by stuff for building purposes in bids for other mar- ble and therefore I think it is about the finest than the ” Those dealers who are not acquainted of dollars subscription. Righto, Mrs. Martin Premore came back to the country. This company is daily ex- w»th Colorado-Yule marble, and who bles, we were awarded the contract, time I sent you a I Commission’s Mr. Clark. Marble last Tuesday. 1 pecting several other contracts. •re near enough to any of the follow- and the Lincoln Memorial