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or boat in the town. A few men are employed for a part of the 

 year, and the product of this quarry is comparatively small. 



Keeseville. — The Potsdam sandstone which crops out at Keese- 

 ville and at Au Sable Chasm, in both Essex and Clinton counties, 

 affords a large amount of good building material for local construe- 

 tion. It has been extensively used in these villages both in the 

 public structures and in numerous private houses and stores, etc. 



On the Port Kent road, at the eastern end of the village of Keese- 

 ville, the Prescott quarry is worked at intervals, according to the 

 demand for building material and for nagging stone. The quarry- 

 ing is simply the removal of the surface, outcropping strata ; 

 and in this way a large area has been worked over. The beds are 

 thin, varying from two inches to one foot. They dip from 8° to 10° in 

 an east-south-east direction. The stone has a grayish- white color, with 

 some yellowish and darker gray bands. Across the road from this 

 quarry the same formation is opened and worked quite down to the 

 bank of the river. The beds are thin and dip eastward. The mate- 

 rial obtained here is mostly for nagging purposes. 



On the right bank of the river, at the end of the village, and in 

 Essex county, Richard Hoag quarries sandstone. The strata dip 

 easterly about 10°. The main joints run vertically south. The beds 

 are from three to 18 inches thick. The stone is grayish-white in color, 

 fine-grained and hard, and the face of the quarry is nearly 20 feet in 

 height. This quarry is worked at intervals, according to the demand. 



M alone, Franklin County. — Quarries have been long worked in 

 and near Malone, in the valley of the Salmon river, for the local 

 market. Sydney A. Paddock, Antone Morris and Peter Bajin have 

 quarries here. The stone is gray-drab with some of a reddish yellow 

 color. It is hard. The beds are usually thin and even. Natural 

 face blocks are used whenever they can be had. And in the town all 

 the foundation walls, the retaining walls, bridges, sidewalk stone and 

 several buildings are of this sandstone. Its durability is attested by 

 its good state of preservation in these structures. 



Potsdam, St. Lawrence County. — The formation in which the 

 quarries of sandstone above described are found derives its name 

 from this locality. The Raquette river in its northward passage has 

 cut through and exposed the strata of sandstone for several miles. 

 Four quarries have been opened along the stream at an average dis- 

 tance of three miles south-south-east of Potsdam. 



