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lamination. The quarry is worked on contract, for paving stone, the 

 men furnishiug the tools and receiving so much per cord for stone 

 quarried. The stone is carted to the canal, a few rods east of the 

 quarry. 



Patrick Horan. — North of Holloway's quarry is that of Patrick 

 Horan, on the west side of the main road, and west of the canal also. 

 The length of the working face, which fronts on the west, is about 

 800 feet, and a breadth of about 500 feet has been worked over. At 

 the south end the drift earth covering the stone is 6 feet thick, and 

 the quarry beds have a total thickness of 18 feet. At the west end 

 there is 12 feet of earth, and then 12 feet of stone to the level of the 

 water, and natural drainage. The older working was 10 to 12 

 feet deeper, making in all 22 feet to 24 feet of beds quarried. The 

 beds are quite irregular, and vary from a few inches to 2 feet in 

 thickness. There is some spotted, red and white (or variegated stone 

 as here known) at the top, but the prevailing shade is gray, especially 

 at the bottom. Some of the beds are obliquely laminated, and these 

 work up badly. No machinery is employed, and this quarry is 

 worked in a small way. 



John A. Hollo way's Quarries. — These quarries lie east of the 

 road and east of the last described. There are two separate openings 

 and about 40 yards apart. At the northern-most quarry the strip- 

 ping is from 5 to 6 feet thick, below which there are from 10 to 12 

 feet of beds, which are workable, mostly a grayish-white stone. 

 At the south the quarry covering is from 5 to 8 feet thick, and the 

 quarry beds aggregate 12 to 18 feet. Nearly all of the stone is a 

 gray-white in color, known in the market, however, as white stone. 

 The product of these quarries goes into street work and building 

 stone. 



Patrick Horan. — Horan's main quarry is a quarter of a mile 

 east of Holloway's, and one mile north-east of the Medina railroad 

 station, and about sixty rods from the canal. Two and half acres have 

 here been worked over, and the quarry has a length of 600 feet from 

 north to south. The stripping is from 12 to 15 feet thick, and con- 

 tains some imbedded masses of sandstone, which are worked up into 

 building stone. The quarry beds have a total thjckness of 10 to 12 

 feet, and range from a few inches to 2 J feet thick. The common 

 feature here observed is the irregular or uneven strata, thinning out 

 or wedging out between others and basin-shaped beds. At the bot- 



