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erected sixty years ago show the excellent 'quality of this marble. 

 Although so much has been taken out, the belt of stone is by no 

 means exhausted.* And with a revival in the marble trade these 

 quarries could meet a large demand. When worked in 1873 the 

 Masterton quarry is reported to have produced 200,000 cubic feet of 

 marble. Formerly the stone was carted direct by teams to tide- 

 water on the Harlem river. Latterly shipments have been by rail. 

 And all are convenient to railroad. Blocks 27 feet by 4| feet by 2^ 

 feet have been dressed and put in the U. S. Custom-house at New 

 Orleans. The U. S. Post-office at Washington, the U. S. Treasury 

 building in New York, the City Hall in Brooklyn, are public build- 

 ings constructed of Tuckahoe marble. Besides these there are in 

 New York city the Mutual Life Insurance building, the Fourth 

 National Bank, the Park Bank, Herald building, Manhattan Life 

 Insurance building, Stewart mansion, Ninth National Bank building, 

 Arnold block on Broadway. In Boston there are the Sears building, 

 Vendome Hotel, Kevere Bank, Montgomery building, and many 

 others. 



The Bates Marble Quarry. — This quarry is situated a half a 

 mile south-east of the Scarsdale railroad station, and in the south 

 end of a low ridge of limestone. It is about 120 yards long by 50 

 yards wide. The strata dip 45° N. 20° W. On the surface the 

 outcrops of the white limestone or marble are weathered and 

 the stone is friable. The quarry has not been worked in some years 

 and is partially filled with water. 



The Snow- Flake Marble Quarry. — This quarry is one mile 

 south-east of Pleasantville in Westchester county. It is known 

 as the Snow-Flake Marble Company's quarry, of which A. L. Pritch- 

 ard is the manager. The place has been opened as a quarry about 

 thirty-five years. The opening has a length of about 500 feet from 

 south-west to north-east. The extreme breadth does not exceed 400 

 feet. The covering of earth on the rock varies from a thin soil to 10 

 feet deep, but the stripping is thicker as the upper beds and some of 

 the top rock is worthless. There is very little water, and that which 

 accumulates is siphoned out into the adjoining Cornell quarry. For- 

 merly the stone was cut by channelling machine, and worked up in 

 the mill, which is located near the quarry. At the present time the 



*These quarries are in the town of Eastchester and they are described in Mather's 

 Report on the First District as " Eastchester Marble Quarry." — /See Mather's Report* 

 page 454. 



