The Booster p. by frank frost MARBLE, GUNNISON COUNTY; , SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1915 VOLUME 5; NUMBER 14

FINEST MARBLE IS FOUND WHAT DENVER PAPERS HERE, ASSERTS AN EXPERT SAY ABOUT SMITH CASE

For quality, fineness and symmetry The famous Sylvia Smith deportation the white marble in the Colorado Na- case is ended. * tional bank of Denver scores perfect, By a ruling of the Colorado supreme according to E. H. West, an expert Court Monday, the noted woman editer quarryman and engineer of Vermont. of the Marble (Colo.) Booster was a- The marble in the new postoffice, warded in the aggregate about $15,000 quarried and finished in the same place damages against the Colorado-Yule —Marble, Colo.—scores 98 out of a pos- Marble company. sible 100 by the same system which The battle between Sylvia Smith and West has for measuring quality; etc. the marble company began when she West is now in Colorado looking over directed a series of knock-outs at the the various whitdmarble prospects with I corporations in 1910. a view of opening up new deposits, it is Her editorials were so stiff that the understood. He is in Gunnison county i citizens of Marble (most of them em- today, Pitkin. Thence he goes to ! ployees of the company) decided she Aspen, Marble, and later to Salida. was a menace to the community. A The limit of white marble in Vermont mass was called, at which all INTERESTING SCENES FROM THE COLORADO-YULE MARBLE COMPANY QUARRIES. meeting can already be seen, according to 1 the officers of the company, including West, who has developed several big the late C. A. Meek, then president of quarries and then sold them to the Ver- the concern, made hot speeches denounc- mont Marble company. ing the woman editor and her paper. It is inferred from this that Colorado They decided to serve notice that she will become the center of the white was no longer wanted as a Marble citi- marble industry in this country, because zen. A committee was appointed to the product of this state is not only in- wait upon her. exhaustible, but it is the finest and The committee got the marshal, also most perfect. an employee of the company, to arrest It can be quarried, too, in larger her. She was placed in jail and there blocks than it can be at any other place. confined while the committee tore down This is instanced by the order which her flat-bed press, tossed type and ink came to the Colorado-Yule Marble com- upon it, and put the lot on a flat car. pany four years ago from . The Then she was released, or rather put great marble deposits in Italy could on one of the company’s trains operat- not furnish base blocks large enough ing in the direction of Grand Junction for the Garibaldi statue there, so the and sent away with the warning never Colorado concern cut and shipped it. to return. West is a man of capital and is also She paid no fare and went away un- associated with men of large wealth, der protest. ready to push any venture he should re- At Grand Junction she set up her commend. He heard of the Colorado press and instituted suit against the marble, and then came to Denver tosee ; company at the same time. During the it. His observations as an expert are i course of the trial she became editorial- epitomized in the score made for his : ly more prolific in abuse of the company own use of the products that are found and won. in the postoffice and Colorado National The supreme court upheld the district Bank buildings here. court’s decision. It is said that the marble put in the She will get about $15,000 for false latter structure was cut from the same imprisonment, conversion of property, blocks which have gone into the Lincoln deportations and a lot of other things. Memorial at Washington, D. C., which Still, Mother Jones’ deportation by are absolutely perfect in quality, fine- Gen. Chase goes unpunished.—Denver ness and the like. Not only does West regard the Colorado product among Express, Monday, June 7. the best for public buildings, but also for interior finish. Not a few of the A judgement of $10,000 obtained by interiors of local structures have been THE BEAUTIFUL YULE CREEK FALLS AT MARBLE. finished with it. Miss Sylvia Smith against the Colorado Itis believed by those who have talk- Yule Marble Combany and the ed with West that his stay here will River &San Juan Railway company was lead to big quarry investments and affirmed by the supreme court this mom- further and greater development of the Smith several years ed- marble industry of the state. —Denver ¦ ing. Miss for Times, Monday, June 7th. ited a newspaper at Marble Colorado. Articles which she printed were antag- The Mr. West alluded to in the onistic to the corporations sued and re- foregoing article was formerly of the suited in a mass meeting of the citizens Norcross-West company, one of the at which resolutions demanding that she most widely known marble concerns in leave town were passed. Miss Smith the . Mr. West recently later was arrested, her printing press sold some extensive quarry holdings to destroyed and she was put on a train and the Vermont Marble company for $750,- sent out of the city.—Denver Post, 000.00. Monday, June 7th.

EDITOR FROST WRITES TO SEVENTEEN CARLOADS OF TELL ABOUT COAST TRIP MARBLE SHIPPED THIS WEEK

Los Angeles, Sunday, June 6. Shipments of finished marble from Dear Booster. MORE VIEWS OF THE COLORADO-YULE MARBLE COMPANY QUARRIES. are Here the Colorado-Yule Marble company we are in Los Angeles, after decidedly heavy this week, as may be leaving Denver Thursday night and judged the following record of spending one from day enroute at the famed carload lots billed out: Grand Canyon we new Rosslyn hostelry Building Garland, in Arizona. Also | hills about the elevation of Geo. Swi- the hotel—a of Committee—C. R. Monday—One car ; had a rooms, November at a James Hennessey. few hours visit at Albuquerque gart, and people on the train fairly 800 opened last one car slabs for city hall, San Francis- -costs us a been with Mrs. John F. Parrish, whom we threw themselves to the car windows cost of a million $3 day for Special police for the day have co; one carload for Colorado National fohnd are very reas- as Garland, to be in good spirits and regain- with exclamations of “O, see the moun- two. Restaurant prices selected follows: C. R. F. bank, Denver. ing her rapidly. quick!” lobby of the hotel Chenowith, A. Johnson, Joe Gallo, Roy health tains, come onable. In the Tuesday—One car interior stuff for Just 5c a dozen. Combs, Paul Erickson, Walter Parks. a word, in passing, about that No doubt, they are considered moun- beautiful carnations sell for Merritt building, Los Angeles; one car Grand Canyon All fruits on the stands are also re- From members of the committees we that people rave so much tains out this way, but the Marble in- for Kingman county court house, Ariz. about. markably cheap. learn that arrangements are oeing per- Of course, it’s stupendous, and nocents abroad couldn’t get enthused Wednesday—One car interior finish all that, expect to get fected even faster expected. but people who had lived around much. We the Tischhausers than for hall, ; two Practically all men are city carloads Marble as long as we have wouldn't Up to the time we arrived in Los in touch with us tomorrow, Monday, the business Lincoln Memorial—these in harmonious accord with the fire boys finished for exactly go delirious with the thing, so Angeles we had drawn lemons m the unless Paul and Mrs. Tisch have been being column drums from Shop 4. far as we to us. swallowed by Frisco sharks. Next and are giving freely in cash and arti- could see. Perhaps my view- lottery of sightseeing, it seemed Thursday—One car of monumental point ecsta- tell something of our cles of merchandise appropriate for of the Canyon became somewhat, At least, we had not gone into week we’ll you pieces; two cars of blocks for city hall, a ramblings. F. prizes in sporting events. Individuals, distorted-out of plumb, as it were—- cies over the trip. But, O joy, what San Francisco; one car of Lincoln Mem- after too, are showing an interest, and are the Fred Harvey hotel, the El live one we ran into here. This is orial. Tovar, CELEBRATION PLANS ARE cheerfully adding their mites to help tried to sting us $14 a day for a SOME town. It’s more like a street Friday—One car for the Lincoln Mem- room NICELY a sufficient fund. and finally compromised on a fair, truly, than a large city. This first DEVELOPING VERY make up orial. cheaper per we grew too to The town council has turned over the room at $9 day. This in- night here, when tired Saturday—Two cars for the Lincoln cluded longer, special meeting of the fire- whole town for the use of the firemen meals, of course, but zowie! what wiggle about the streets any At the Memorial. a price at on celebration day, and the C. Y. M. for a country editor to dig up! the natives were just beginning Jto men held Masonic hall Tuesday night the This makes a total of seventeen cars we last, was definitely decided to hold a is going to give all its employees a holi- Incidently we stayed one—count ’em, 1 turn out for the evening. And, it of C. product shipped during —day. hour, celebration, and prelim- day, and the fire boys appreciate these Y. M. out didn’t exactly turn in at a Marble Fourth of July the week. The Canyon is worth seeing, of course, either. inary committees were elected to start favors. out for people of limited means it's a Every third door is a movie show. the ball rolling. It’s going to be a big, enjoyable day, over paper seems to darned good place to skip. Another Every fourth number is a cafe or cab- The Fourth proper falling on Sunday, given from early morning until “Paint up and up” a thing, while the idea is fresh: Who- aret. We were too tired to fox trot itwas decided to have the celebration late at night to amusements and sports be the slogan that has gripped few of description. our City State ever told us the southern route, via this first night, but will take a shot at Saturday, July 3rd. of every people. At the Marble are com- are as can anta Fe, to California was a scenic that game before we leave, sure. The The following the committees: Another meeting of the Hose Bank workmen busy they n - P was full of hay. They aint no streets are a blaze of light, literally Individual Finance—Henry Thode, pany will be held at Masonic Temple be, painting, papering and calcimin 8 ®®ner Magnus, coming Sunday afternoon at ing. City Drug Store, Phil y > nothing but sage, sand and sal thousands of persons were ;on the Martin Fred Munro. this 1:30, At the 8 a~ and every fireman who can is urged to °r or > maybe, some it streets, and literally thousands of nick- Merchant Finance—Jack Chandler, Meek has had the interior repapered a would call be present. alai. Once, in a long journey over el traps were set and ready to be Roy Combs, F. Chenowith. and the front has been brightened up e a new coat and other desert, packed in steel cars where sprung. So far, we have observed that Base Ball—Bob Woodman, F. Brooks. with of paint, ® add temperature was 496 degrees Fahr- prices of everything are very reason- Transportation —F. Chenowith, I. M. The weather of the past week has improvements have been made that eit, been a decided change for the better. materially its appearance. en we came in sight of a range of able. A delightful room, with bath, at Kobey. to