MAKING MARBLES.
Germany maintains a monopoly of making stone marbles in spite of various efforts made to wrest the trade away. In the marble and agate quarries there are innumerable chips and bits of stone from the cutting of the large blocks, and this refuse is broken into cubes about the size of a marble.
An experienced worker produces these cubes of stone at am incredible speed and with remarkable uniformity. When about a bushel are ready they are dropped between a grooved bedstone and a revolving runner. Water is kept constantly supplied and in half an hour tho stones are turned out perfect spheres. With abundant water power the cost is slight, as a. couple of men can keep a dozen stones supplied and the raw material costs nothing at all.
In other countries the cost of preparing the blanks eats up the profits and competition with the German made product is impossible.
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Northland Age, Volume 2, Issue 41, 22 May 1906, Page 8
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