QUARTZYTES AND SANDSTONES. 81 



Good year's, Cayuga County. — Two miles east of Cayuga lake 

 and At water station J. G. Barger quarries flagging and building 

 stone in the Hamilton formation. The covering on the quarry beds 

 averages eight feet in thickness. Then there is flagstone in five lifts ; 

 then shale, about 2 feet thick ; then two beds, each about 2 feet thick 

 separated by shale ; or in the aggregate, 6 feet of quarry beds and 12 

 feet of waste. The stone is carted to the railroad station on the 

 lake shore. The greater part is cut into flagging ; the stone unsuited 

 to flagging is for building. Some of it has been cut and rubbed 

 for house work, at Cayuga, at Parker's Glen, Pa., and also at works 

 on the Hudson river. The principal markets are at Seneca Falls, 

 Canandaigua, Utica, Rochester and New York. The quarry was 

 opened first in 1864. 



Trumansburgh, Tompkins County. — Near Trumansburgh several 

 quarries have been opened in sandstone, mainly for flagging. The 

 most important one is that of the Flagstone & Building Stone Com- 

 pany, one mile east of the village, and three-quarters of a mile 

 from the shore of Cayuga lake. The quarry is on the right bank of 

 the Trumansburgh creek, and has a length of 500 feet, from east to 

 west, and a breadth of 250 feet, approximately. Its average depth 

 is 25 feet. There is no stripping of consequence, as only two inches 

 of soil covers the rock. The beds at the top are somewhat shaly. 

 Common building stone is obtained from them. The thinner beds at 

 the bottom are used for cutting into dimension stone. The total 

 thickness of the strata is 25 feet, which range from one foot 

 thick down, of which only about seven feet ; or less than 30 per cent, 

 are used. The dip is very slightly north-west. One very regular 

 system of joints is vertical, and at spaces six to eight feet apart, 

 and runs 2° west of north. The quarry has a natural drainage. 

 The stone is carted to a dock on the lake, and shipped by boat to the 

 company's yard at Mott Haven, New York, or to Cayuga, where it is 

 cut into lintels, sills and curbing, and then shipped to New York. 

 It has a grayish shade of color, is fine-grained, and is readily cut 

 into dimension stone for house trimmings and curbing. In the winter 

 season the work of stripping is carried on. About 20 men are em- 

 ployed, and a large amount of flagging is taken out. 



A few rods west of this opening, a brownish-colored sandstone 

 crops out, and which is opened and quarried for building stone. It 

 was used for the Protestant Episcopal church in the village. Some 



