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No powder is used and the stone is all cut out by machinery. The 

 equipment consists of one steam derrick, a steam pump, four Sullivan 

 diamond channelling machines, and one Ingersoll gadding machine. 

 The mill for working up the stone is new and complete in its plan and 

 equipment. A track from the quarry runs along the south side of the 

 mill, and the large blocks as quarried are carried on cars directly to 

 the works. There are sixteen gangs of saws with automatic feed, one 

 rubbing bed and one turning lathe, and hoisting derrick for loading 

 cut stone on the cars at the mill. The water for the works is obtained 

 from a bored well 450 feet deep. The great use of this marble is 

 for monuments. A large amount is sold for rock-ashlar, mostly to 

 the western markets. The price for rock-ashlar at the quarry aver- 

 ages 25 cents per foot. The waste inferior stone is sold for common 

 foundation and wall work in the village. 



The Whitney Marble Company's quarry lies to the east of the 

 St. Lawrence quarry and on the other side of the railroad track. 

 The new quarry of this company measures 65 x 50 feet and 28 feet 

 in depth. The earth on top of the stone is scarcely more than the 

 thickness of the soil. The beds of marble dip 20° north, but a few 

 yards away the dip is 25° north 30° east, showing considerable 

 variation from point to point. The upper stone in this quarry is 

 light in color and the bottom blue. Of the latter there is a thick- 

 ness of 12 feet. A little mica and some tourmaline are noticed in 

 the stone in the south-east corner of the quarry. In general the 

 stone resembles that of the St. Lawrence Company's quarry, and is 

 rather coarse-crystalline. In the quarry work one derrick, one Sul- 

 livan diamond channelling machine and one gadding machine are 

 used. The quarry water is used for the boilers to run the machines. 

 There is a small opening a few yards north of the present quarry, 

 where some stone has been obtained. The old quarry on this prop- 

 erty is about 150 yards north-east of the present opening, and is 

 near the mill. This old opening has the dimension of 80 feet x 30 

 feet and is 50 feet in depth. It is no longer worked. The percent- 

 age of mica in the stone at the bottom makes it unfit for cutting or 

 polishing, and hence the place is abandoned. One derrick still 

 stands at the old quarry. The mill of this company has four gangs 

 of saws, one rubbing table, one turning lathe and one loading der- 

 rick. A switch connects the mill with the main line of the railroad 

 track, one-eighth of a mile distant. The greater part of the product 

 goes for monumental work, but a part is put on the market for 

 building^purposes. 



