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advantage, and the length of the outcrop shows a great stock of 

 stone. The lower beds, i. e., below the present quarry bottom to the 

 foot of the ledge have not as yet been opened or tested. They are 

 exposed in the face of the bluff. This quarry was opened in June, 

 1887. 



The Finnegan quarry is on the west side of the Rome, Watertown 

 & Ogdensburgh railroad, and about half way between Rossie station 

 and Foster's quarry. The quarry is in the eastern face of the ledge 

 for a distance of 200 or 300 yards, and on the side of the track. 

 The beds are thin and horizontal. One main system of joints runs 

 east and west. The second runs N. 20° W. Much- of the stone at 

 this place is striped in color, red and white. It was worked for pav- 

 ing blocks and flagging-stone. It has been idle for five years. 



The quarry of D. E. Parmeter also occupies the eastern face of the 

 ledge or bluff, and is on the west side of the railroad. Its workings 

 extend along the line of the railroad nearly 1,000 feet, from north- 

 east to south-west. The floor, or bottom of the quarry, is about on 

 a level with a platform car on the side track, making, as it w T ere, a 

 convenient natural dock. The stone at the bottom is hard and solid, 

 and suitable for building, but it is not used. The quarry beds 

 furnish a sufficient quantity for paving blocks, which is the great 

 business of this quarry also. Their total (or the maximum) thickness, 

 as seen at the north-west end of the opening, is 25 feet. The dip 

 does not exceed 5°, and is east-south-east. The most plain and regu- 

 lar joint system runs north-east and south-west, and vertically, but 

 not uniformly so. Some of them dip steeply. An open system of 

 joints, less regular and less frequent, runs north and south. These 

 joints facilitate the quarrying. The maximum thickness of the soil 

 on top of this quarry is less than three feet. The beds of stone are 

 from a few inches to three feet thick, but the thickest can be split up 

 into thin flagging-stone. Generally they do not run in uniform 

 thickness, but wedge out, as it were, forming basins, showing much 

 irregularity in the original deposition. At the south end of the 

 quarry the stone is striped, red and white, resembling some of the stone 

 at the Finnegan quarry. It is broken up for paving blocks. The 

 best stone of the quarry is white, or grayish-white in color, and fine 

 grained. It is hard, but is readily split into convenient sizes for pav- 

 ing blocks. No blasting is done here. The beds are lifted by means 

 of bars, and are split crosswise by drilling line holes and sledging, 

 or by plug and feather wedges. The drainage is natural. There is 



