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bed. The thickest bed is 6 feet. The general direction of the main 

 system of joints or seams is east and west, and vertical. The others 

 are irregular. In some cases they are filled with earth, and these 

 dirt seams help greatly in the working of the quarry. The total 

 thickness of the quarry beds at the south amounts to 30 feet. It is 

 less on both the east and west sides. Some powder is used, but so 

 far as possible the beds are lifted off by wedges, and split apart by 

 plug and feather. The stone is carted to the cars at the side of the 

 quarry, on the south, or to the canal on the north. The water at 

 the bottom of the quarry is pumped to the level of the drain, which 

 flows north into the canal. There are two derricks in the quarry for 

 hoisting the stone. The beds here also have a smooth upper surface, 

 and what are known as sand lines. Oblique lamination is seen in 

 some of the beds, and where thus laminated, the stone is cut up into 

 paving blocks. The best stone is sold for building purposes and plat- 

 form flagging, but the greater part of the product goes for paving 

 blocks ; and principally to Cleveland, Columbus, Toledo, and other 

 places in the west. For paving material two grades are made ; one 

 is known as the block pavement, and the other the common, natural 

 face stone. A large number of men are employed at this quarry 

 throughout the working season, and the annual output amounts to 

 hundreds of car loads. The stone of this quarry is rather brighter 

 red than that of the other Albion quarries, approaching the Hulber- 

 ton stone in shade. It is fine-grained and even in texture. The 

 Presbyterian church in Albion is a beautiful example in construction, 

 of this company's stone. 



Gilbert Brady's Quarry is less than half a mile east of the last 

 described, and one and a half miles from the Albion railroad station. 

 It is similarly situated in reference to the canal and railroad. The 

 face of the quarry has its greatest length from east to west, and the 

 whole distance from the east end to the west end is 150 rods. The 

 stripping, of red sand, varies from 10 to 15 feet thick, and the surface 

 of the stone underneath this sand bed is glaciated and hard and 

 solid, as if the upper and shaly strata had been removed therefrom 

 by the glacier. The beds have a general dip of a few degrees to the 

 south-east. A remarkable feature of this quarry is the uniformity 

 in the direction, and in the spaces between the seams or joints. The 

 direction of these seams is nearly east and west and vertical, and 

 they are from 12 to 30 feet apart ; and in nearly all cases filled with 



