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this formation enjoy a high reputation, and are largely used in the 

 Chicago market, notwithstanding the distance. When visited, the 

 kilns of Messrs. H. & Y. C. Pel ton, of Pewankee, were producing 

 1,200 barrels per week, which was shipped to Chicago, Grand Haven, 

 Sparta, Des Monies and elsewhere. At the kilns of Mr. Ormshy, of 

 the same place, 2,000 barrels were being burned per week, about one- 

 half of which was shipped to Chicago and the rest mainly to the La 

 Crosse region. Messrs. Colville & Ormsby, of Lisbon, were burning 

 700 barrels per week. Messrs. Horlick & Sons, of Racine, manufac- 

 ture from 60,000 to 75,000 barrels per year, which is sent to the west 

 and south, and to Michigan. Their business is so extensive as to re- 

 quire a branch house in Chicago. Mr. Beswick, of the same place, 

 burns upward of 18,000 barrels per year, which is used chiefly at points 

 on the Lake Shore railroad. Mr. Vaughn, of the same place, pro- 

 duces from 600 to 1,000 barrels per week, which is mostly sold at 

 Chicago. At Waukesha, the Messrs. Hadfield burn and ship exten- 

 sively. Mr. Johnson, in the town of Genesee, burns sufficient to sup- 

 ply the local demand. Mr. Trimbone, of Greenfield, produces from 

 60,000 to 80,000 barrels per year, which is chiefly consumed in Mil- 

 waukee. The kiln of Mr. Druecker, near Port Washington, has a 

 capacity of 250 barrels daily, the product of which is shipped to 

 Chicago. At Mr. Roth's kilns, near Sheboygan, 1,600 to 1,700 bar- 

 rels per year are produced. At numerous other points, there are 

 kilns of capacity sufficient to supply the local demand. Probably 

 400,000 larrels may be considered a fair estimate of the total amount 

 of lime burned per year from the Niagara limestone. 



Building-Stone. While this district yearly exports large quanti- 

 ties of brick and lime, it continues to import more or less of build- 

 ino- stone. This is due less to the necessities of the case than to the 



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want of development of our own resources So far as there may be a 

 demand for silicious sandstone, there will probably continue to be a 

 a necessity for going outside of our district, though not outside of the 

 state, but the formation under consideration is capable of furnishing 

 excellent material for both massive and ornamental construction. 



The careful, and in many cases, elaborate descriptions of the texture 

 and bedding of the members of the formation, given under the head of 

 local details, need not be repeated, and our attention may be confined to 

 a few localities that especially deserve mention. The quarries of the 

 Messrs. Hadfield, near Waukesha, afford excellent, compact, fine- 

 grained, white, or light-gray beds, 20 inches or more, in available 

 thickness. The rock has a reliable conchoidal fracture and can be 

 dressed with as much ease and facility, as is attainable in so firm a 



