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ROANOKE MARBLE AND GRANITE WORKS

The Roanoke Marble and Granite Works, Incorporated,
were established in 1908, and were chartered
the following year. This has been one of the city's
most successful enterprises, and has been a large advertiser
of Roanoke, as the manufactured goods of this
concern are sent all over Virginia, West Virginia, North
Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, Maryland, and Pennsylvania,
as well as other states. The firm manufactures
all kinds of granite and marble monuments and tombstones,
and building stone for interior marble decoration.

A specialty is made of tombstone work which is
shipped to all parts of the country. Much imported
statuary is handled by this progressive firm. One or
more representatives are located in every county in
Southwest Virginia, and in this way, and through
traveling representatives a large territory is systematically
covered.

The business is increasing rapidly, largely due to the
facts that only the very best material is used, skilled
labor employed, and the prices charged are consistent
with the high class of work done. All of their work is
done by hand, no pneumatic tools being used. This
progressive firm has been awarded contracts for the
erection of a number of handsome monuments in this
immediate section of the State. The handsome monument
erected to the Confederate dead at Rocky Mount,
in Franklin County, was recently completed by the
Roanoke Marble and Granite Works.

Mr. J. E. Boone, a native of Franklin County, Virginia,
is the General Manager of the plant, and associated
with him are Messrs. M. E. Muire, M. H. Cannady,
and O. H. Martin. These gentlemen are well
known, and all possess the highest business qualifications.
Their plant is located at No. 503 South Jefferson
Street, near the business center of the city, where one
of the largest stocks of fine monuments and tombstones
to be found in the State is on exhibition.

The firm also handles all kinds of iron fencing, as
well as cemetery work of every description. Building
stone is also included in their line of trade.