BY H. C. RICHARDS. 133^ 



building it was used with sandstone from Mt. Tabor quarry. 

 The stone is rather argillaceous or claj-ej' and does not 

 take a good arris, being much inferior to the Yan Gan stone 

 in this respect. It is finer-grained than the local War^nck 

 sandstones. 



Warwick Sandsio nes. 



Sandstone in the immediate \icinit3- of the town has 

 been quarried in several places and used locally. Con- 

 sequently stone buildings and houses are miich more 

 abundant in Warwick than most towns of its size in Queens- 

 land. Most of the local stone is rather coarse-grained, shows 

 current bedding freely, and while good for filling in. it is 

 not good where work has to be put on the stone. 



The stone in the Warwick Hospital obtained from a 

 quarry on the Waterworks Hill is amongst the best of the 

 local stone and is finer- grained than most of it. 



Mt. Tabor* Quarry, which belongs to D. Connolly, 

 is on a ridge running north-west from Mt. Tabor in the 

 direction of the town. It has been extensi\ely worked 

 and the stone used in the following buildings in Warwick : 

 Police buildings (1885), Barnes & Co. (old building), Rail- 

 way Station (old portion 1888), Town Hall (rear portion), 

 Hyslop"s Stores, Court House, Ward's buildings (1901), 

 and the Queensland National Bank (1880). 



Giinn's Paddock Quarry. — This is a quarry in the 

 sandstone about 2 miles north of Warwick, and adjacent 

 to the railway line on the east side. The stone from here 

 has been used in the Presbyterian Church. 



Sidling Quarries. — These consist of a numl)er of small 

 quarries commencing at Gunn's Paddock and extending 

 through Bishop Tuffnell's quarry and four other quarries 

 towards the Freestone road. The stone quarried is coarse, 

 and \ ery soft and crumbh' when cjuarried, but becomes 

 hard after exposure. Bishop TuffnelFs c^uarry is situated 

 on the Weewondilla Estate. The stone from these quarries 

 has been used in St. Mark's Anglican Church (1867), St. 

 Mary's B.C. Church," Methodist Church, Masonic Hall, 



* I understand, on the authority of Mr. Kingsford, Assistant-Town 

 Clerk, and an old I'esident of Warwick, that the correct spelling is 

 " Thabor' ' ; the spelling used here is that in most general use. 



