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appears. Its course is north-west. Generally the beds of sandstone 

 are separated by thin layers of shaly rock. The top stone is some- 

 what inferior, on account of its shaly pebbles, which on exposure 

 crumble and fall out. The more solid beds, near the main water 

 level of the stream, make good stone for dressing and cut work. 

 The inferior stone is sold for common walls and foundations. The 

 cut and dressed material is used chiefly for house trimmings or rock- 

 face ashlar. The market for the greater part of the product is 

 Syracuse. There is oiie derrick ; and the stone are loaded directly 

 on boats at the side of the canal. The stone in this quarry is dark 

 red in color, rather soft, and dresses easily. At the bottom it is 

 harder and more homogeneous in texture. Some of the upper strata 

 have a reedy structure. 



A large amount of stone has been taken from the strata on the river 

 banks at Oswego Falls, and used in Fulton, and in Oswego and 

 Syracuse. Owing to a lack of care in selection much inferior stone 

 has gone into the market, and it has greatly injured the reputation of 

 the Oswego Falls stone. The First Presbyterian church in Syracuse, 

 corner of South Salina and Fayette streets, is an example of this stone, 

 badly selected, and to a large extent with the blocks set on edge. 

 And withal this stone has a rich, deep and pleasing tint ; and its 

 weathered blocks give the edifice an appearance of age. 



Granby Brownstone Company's Quarry. — This quarry is in the 

 town of Granby, two miles from Fulton and at the side of the Dela- 

 ware, Lackawana & Western railroad. The first opening was 

 made in the spring of 1886, and the present quarry consists of a 

 square pit, 85 feet on the side and 60 feet deep. The work here has 

 been done by the use of a channelling machine. The quarry is in a 

 little depression, and the earth covering on the rock was scarcely a 

 foot thick. For three feet down the rock is shaly and somewhat 

 broken up. And down at least 16 feet the stone is traversed by irreg- 

 ularly running seams ; and there are shaly pebbles in the sandstone ; 

 and some parts of the stone have a grayish-green color, as if the stone 

 were not so thoroughly oxidized in them as in the main mass. These 

 shaly portions disintegrate on exposure, fall out and disfigure the 

 stone. The bottom rock is quite free from them and from seams also. 

 It is fine-grained, of a purple red shade of color, and admits of fine 

 tool dressing, and is adapted to highly ornamental work. In the 

 quarrying work there are in use : one Ingersoll channelling machine ; 

 one Ingersoll drill ; two steam derricks and a steam pump. The 



