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from point to point, and the beds are seen to thin out while others 

 form thick lenticular masses between these more narrow, wedge- 

 shaped beds. Cross-bedding and oblique lamination are also common. 

 The beds vary iu thickness from a few inches to three and four feet. 

 On the eastern side of the quarry there is at the bottom a heavy bed 

 of what is known as variegated rock, and under it a thick bed of 

 white sandstone. In this variegated rock the matrix is red, and in it 

 are these white, spheroidal masses. In working, the color guides in 

 the separation and selection of the stone, according as the demand 

 calls for several kinds. The red stone is now most in favor. The 

 variegated is also highly esteemed. Steam pumps are used for un- 

 watering the quarry, but no steam drills are used. The stone is 

 carted by team to the canal and railroad. The product is building 

 stone for house trimmings, rock-ashlar, paving blocks ; crosswalk and 

 curb stone are also obtained. The chief markets are Columbus, 

 Detroit, Kansas City, Cleveland, Rochester, Buffalo and Erie. The 

 quarry is worked about seven months in the year, and at times as 

 many as 100 men are employed. 



James Howell. — This quarry is east of the last described, and 

 between the two roads leading north and west from the village. Its 

 face, fronting east- north-east, has a length of nearly 1,000 feet, in 

 somewhat of a zigzag course. The stripping is light, containing some 

 broken stone with the top earth; Near the top there are shaly 

 beds interstratified with the sandstone. These disappear down, and 

 then the sandstone beds are heavier. The whole thickness of the 

 quarry beds here worked, amounts to 18 feet. The product is almost 

 wholly for street work. This quarry, like that of Kearney & Barrett's, 

 is below the canal level, and the water accumulating in it has to be 

 raised by power. 



John A. Holloway. — This quarry is on the right bank of the 

 creek, and on the west side of the canal. The working face at 

 present is towards the west, and has a length of 500 feet from north 

 to south. A large area has here been worked over, and huge 

 dumps lie disposed about the quarry. The stripping 3 J feet thick 

 is shaly beds. The quarry beds have a total thickness of from 10 

 to 12 feet. The drainage is natural into the creek. The seams are 

 somewhat irregular, and some of the beds are much disturbed and 

 broken by them. In some cases the joint faces are coated with pyrite. 

 The stone is mostly grayish- white, hard, and some of it shows oblique 



