292 PROCEEDINGS OF THE COTTESWOLD CLUB 



The output of the quarries is about 200,000 tons per 

 annum. When I first became associated with the quarries 

 there was no industry upon the hill ; at the present time 

 the men and boys directly employed number about 1,000, 

 and indirectly of course a further number are beneficially 

 affected by the Quarries. The stone goes beyond the local 

 counties to London, Windsor, Eafing, Preston, Liverpool, 

 Manchester, Crewe, Norfolk, Kent, &c., and as much as 

 20/- per ton has been paid for railway carriage alone, 

 exclusive of after cartage, in a district where local stone, 

 gravel, pebbles, &.C., were available at a trivial cost. 



