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any but the roughest work. The Museum coUectious coutaiu au ex- 

 tremely coarse greeuish epidotic granite, with hirge red porphyritic 

 crystals of orthochise, from Bench Mountain, in Coclve County, which 

 might perhar»s be worked if there were a market. 



iSoHth Carolina. — Although no granites from this State are to be found 

 in our principal markets, it by no means follows tliat there is any de- 

 ficiency in the sui)ply. The collection now in the Museum shows, on 

 the contrary, that excellent stones of this class occur in various local- 

 ities. 



Near Win nsborough, in 1^'airfield County, quarries have recently been 

 oi)ened which furnish fine-grained gray biotite granite fully equal to 

 any in the market. The quarries, as we are informed by the owner, Mr. 

 AV. Woodward, cover some 70 acres of bowlders and two large ledges, 

 one 11 acres in extent and the other 0. The stone works readily and 

 aciiuires an excellent i>olis]j. A i)inkish granite also occurs in this same 

 county. Other granites in this State, of which we hav^e seen specimens, 

 but concerning which we have but little accurate information, occur near 

 Columbia, Kichland County; and in Newberry, Lexington, Edgefield, 

 and Aiken Counties. The Columbia stone is of a light-gray color, ap- 

 l)arently of excellent quality. It was used in the construction of the 

 State house in that city, and is stated to be very durable.* 



Texas. — lied granites, both coarse and fine, occur in Burnet County, 

 in this State, though at present neither are quarried to any extent. 

 Both varieties carry biotite as the chief accessory mineral. The coarser 

 variety corresi)onds closely with the coarse red granite from Platte 

 Ciinon, Colo. Their colors are dull and they seem better adapted for 

 rough building than for monumental work. 



rf((h Territory. — A coarse, light- gray granite occurs in inexhaustible 

 quantities in Little Cottonwood Canon, not far from Salt Lake City. So 

 far the stone has been quarried only from bowlders that have been rolled 

 down the canon, and the parent ledge remains untouched. This stone 

 has been used in the construction of the new Mormon temple at Salt 

 Lake City. 



Vermont. — This State furnishes but little in the way of granitic rocks, 

 from the fact that lew of her (piarries produce material not foun<l 

 elsewhere in New England, where there are better and cheaper facilities 

 for transportation. Quarries of biotite granite of fine grain and a gray 

 color are, however, worked at Barre, Bruns\vi(5k, Morgan, Ilyegate, 

 and Woodbury. A very light, almost white, muscovite granite is also 

 <piarried at Bethel. The most of these rocks are for local use only, 

 though that from Brunswick is said to be carried to some extent into the 

 neighboring cities in New York State. 



Wyomimj. — "Tlie only building stone which is quarried in Wyoming is 

 at Sherman, the highest point of the Northern Pacific Eailroad. At this 

 point — the summit of the Black Ilills — the road cuts through a heavy 



* South C:u()liii;i, Resources, rojjiil.itioii, etc., 1S8U, p. COD. 



