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shipped by rail and canal. The curbstone and crosswalk-stone are 

 dressed at the quarry. 



Noble & Lyle Quarry. — This quarry is situated a quarter of a 

 mile north of the canal and one and a half miles north-east of Medina, 

 on lands of Hiram Reynolds. It has been in operation about twelve 

 years. It is about 100 yards in diameter, being nearly circular in 

 shape. The earth covering is from five to six feet thick ; the quarry 

 beds from one to three feet thick, and have a total thickness of 16 

 feet. They dip south at a small angle. The bedding of this quarry 

 is very regular and even, and there is an entire absence of oblique 

 lamination and basin-shaped beds. The rock at the bottom is seamy, 

 and worthless on account of its shaly nature, and is known as " red 

 horse." The stone is generally of a brown or reddish-brown color, 

 more like the Hulberton than the Medina stone. It is rather 

 softer than the stone of the other Medina quarries, and is easily 

 dressed. Some of the beds on the east side are of a grayish- white 

 color, and harder. The product is almost wholly put into building 

 material. A very little is sold for curbing, flagging, crosswalks, and 

 for paving block. 



Lockport. — On the north of Lockport the Medina sandstone for- 

 mation has been opened at a number of points on an 80-acre tract 

 owned by Chas. Whitmore. These quarries are on both sides of the 

 road leading to Olcott, and on the right bank of Eighteen-mile 

 creek.* Work has been done on the hill north-east of this Olcott 

 road in a small way, in many separate excavations, which are from 

 three to five feet deep. The product, a gray sandstone, is split up 

 into paving blocks. South-west of the road, and in the face of the 

 bluff, and below the smelting works, the main quarries are located, 

 which are now worked. The stripping is heavy, 18 to 20 feet thick, 

 including red, shaly beds, with hard sandstone, most of which is 

 thrown out as waste. The quarry beds dip gently south. The ver- 

 tical joints run generally east and west, dividing the rock into conve- 

 nient blocks for quarrying. Both red and mottled varieties occur in 

 this locality. The inferior stone from the top courses or strata sells 

 in Lockport, delivered, at $3.00 per cord. The lower beds furnish 

 stone for curbing and street work. The total thickness of the white 



* The Medina gray and mottled sandstones from these Lockport quarries were much 

 used formerly, and many of the older buildings in the lower part of the town are 

 constructed of them. And they afford the best evidence of the durability of the 

 Lockport sandstone. The quarries here are said to have been opened as early as 1824. 



