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through San Esteban, on its eastern side. The harbor of San 

 Esteban is about 2 kilometers from the place, and a good hard 

 road passes within a short distance of the beach. Mabuyag 

 furnishes stone suitable for all the staple products of San Es- 

 teban, namely rice mortars, paving stones, and hand-mills for 

 rice and corn. Stones suitable for ordinary paving blocks, of 

 about 25 by 18 by 5 centimeters, lie about on the surface in con- 

 siderable abundance, requiring but little labor to dress Into 

 commercial form. Stone for mills and mortars, as well as that 

 intended for large paving stones, has to be cut out of the solid 

 rock. This is exposed vertically along a considerable distance, 

 in strata of marked dip and various thicknesses. 



Kajjpakappa. — This is the name of a barrio and adjacent 

 locality situated 2.2 kilometers to the eastward of the presi- 

 dencia of San Esteban. Following the present paths and road, 

 it is about 3 kilometers from the harbor beach — perhaps a little 

 more. It suffers from the disadvantage that to reach it from 

 the coast one must follow a steep path through hilly country 

 practically all the way. The men who get stone here carry it 

 down to San Esteban on their shoulders or on carabao sleds. 

 It is, nevertheless, used a good deal as a source of stone, espe- 

 cially of that intended for rice-mortars and hand-mills. The 

 reason seems to be that the stone for this purpose is not only 

 very abundant, but somewhat easier to get out than at Mabu- 

 yag, owing apparently to the existence- of large detached pieces 

 of rock at or just below the surface. It is claimed, moreover, 

 that the stone here is a little finer-grained than that at Mabu- 

 yag. The quarries of Kappakappa lie along the eastern base 

 of a ridge running approximately north and south. Almost 

 anywhere along this base, for a distance of about 2 kilometers 

 northward from the village, serviceable stone can be secured. 

 At the present time 3 quarries are in actual use, but there are 

 some half a dozen former workings which could probably be re- 

 opened, if necessary. One of the workings in use is in the village 

 of Kappakappa, and the other two are a little to the north of it. 

 Around each place where stone has been taken out is a sub- 

 stantial pile of rejects which could be changed, with a little 

 dressing, into medium-sized paving stones, if desired. 



While Kappakappa and Mabuyag are the only localities ex- 

 ploited to any appreciable extent at present, there are two 

 other localities in the municipality which deserve mention. One 

 is Apatot. This is a barrio on the seashore about 2 kilometers 



