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out the stone. The bottom floor of the quarry is a dark-brown, 

 coarse-grained sandstone. Blocks of very large size can be obtained. 

 In fact, the limit to the size is that of handling and transportation. 

 All of the thick-bedded stone and the larger part of the product of 

 this quarry is worked into building material, and is shipped in the 

 rough. A steam pump is in use for raising the water ; there are 

 two derricks for hoisting the stone. It is carted to the canal and 

 shipped by boat. This quarry was opened in 1865. The stone of the 

 thick beds is fine-grained, of even texture and of a light-red color. 

 Stone of the Squire's quarry can be seen in the Delaware Avenue M. 

 E. church, in Buffalo ; in the Sibley Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, 

 and many other structures. Rochester and Buffalo are the principal 

 markets. 



Lafayette Cornwell's quarry is the next one to the north-west. It 

 was opened in 1887. The quarry beds are from 2 to 12 inches thick ; 

 and in all, there is a thickness of 7 feet of such quarry stone, under- 

 lying 5 feet of stripping. The stone is deep-red in color. It is 

 suitable for building or street work. A small number of men are 

 employed. 



Going on, north-west there are the quarries of Constantine Van 

 York, Charles Gwin, Barnard O'Reilly (leased to M. Scanlon) and 

 Chadwick Brothers. 



The Hulberton quarries are all embraced within a narrow belt on 

 the north side of the Erie canal, two and a half miles in length, from 

 north-west to south-east. They are all excavated below the level of 

 the canal, and hence the pumping of water is necessitated in all of 

 them. Their stone is shipped over the canal ; and in all about 120 

 men are employed in these quarries. The working season continues 

 from spring until freezing weather, in the early winter. Much of the 

 Hulberton block is sold by the Albion Stone Company, and goes under 

 the name of Medina block. 



Albion, Orleans County. — The largest quarries in the Medina 

 sandstone formation are at Albion. They are on the east of the town, 

 and opened in a comparatively flat, farming country, between the 

 Erie canal on the north and the New York Central railroad on the 

 south. They are below the railroad grade and not much above the 

 canal level. The most westerly opening is in the town, and is known 

 as Sandford's quarry. A large area has been quarried over. It is 

 now idle. 



