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Wing, George Washington. IN RE DIVISION OF RUTLAND. ARGUMENT OF REMONSTRANTS, Before Committee in Representatives' Hall, Nov. 9, 1886, By Geo. W. Wing, Esq., of Montpelier, Vt. Reported by John H. Mimms, Stenographer.
N.p., (1886). (1886). Very good
- Octavo, softcover bound in printed gray self-wraps sewn with gray cord. The wraps are lightly bumped & soiled & slightly darkened around the edges. There is some light foxing to the front wrap with tiny chips out of its corners. 19 & [1] pages. Very good. In the 1840s, small companies had begun quarrying marble in what is now West Rutland, but the quarries only became profitable when the railroad came to Rutland in 1851. As it happened, the famous marble quarries of Carrara in Italy became virtually unworkable at this same period, and Rutland soon became one of the leading producers of marble in the world. This fueled enough growth and investment that in 1886 the marble companies saw to it that the present Rutland City was incorporated as a village, and most of the town was split off and became West Rutland and Proctor, which between them contained most of the marble quarries. George Washington Wing [b. 1843], who attacks the marble companies in this pamphlet, was a Republican lawyer and politician. He was a member of the House of Representatives in 1882 and deputy secretary of state from 1867 to 1873. He became Montpelier's first mayor in 1895. Scarce.
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