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of the blocks have natural faces, and are of a dirty yellow shade in 

 color. Others show a reedy structure. 



Near Halseyville and a half a mile east of the Trumansburgh and 

 Ithaca road there are quarries on both sides of the Taughannock 

 creek, worked by D. S. Biggs. On the south side of the stream the 

 stripping of earth is 18 feet thick, and on the north side 10 feet thick. 

 The beds are horizontal, with vertical joints at convenient distances 

 apart for working. From the north quarry more flag-stone is 

 obtained : from that on the south side more building stone. None 

 of the strata are more than 18 inches thick, and shale is interbedded 

 with the stone, but all of them split readily into slabs and flag-stone 

 of convenient sizes. On account of the shaly rock th^re is much 

 waste. in these quarries. The drainage is natural. Two small der- 

 ricks comprise the equipment. The flag-stone are carted two miles to 

 lake, but the railroad station is only a half mile away. This quarry 

 was opened in 1884. 



A short distance down stream, on the right side is Dumont's quarry 

 for flag-stone, and near it is still another small quarry. All of these 

 quarries sell stone to the works at Cayuga, whence it goes to Syra- 

 cuse, Geneva, Rochester, etc., besides the local markets. 



In Kingtown, a hamlet in the town of Covert, there are two 

 small flag-stone quarries, which are worked as the demand calls for 

 stone. Only a few men are employed in each. 



Ithaca, Tompkins County. — Sandstone is quarried on the hill 

 south of the town, at two places by G. C. McClune. The older 

 quarry is one mile south of the corporation line and about 200 feet 

 above the valley. The stripping is mostly shale and some rough 

 stone, the best of which is used for common walls. The flag-stone 

 layers are from 14 inches to 28 inches thick, and from 5 to 12 layers 

 of the flagging, from 1 to 8 inches thick, are obtained. The strata 

 dip at about 1 in 24, southward. The quarry was opened in 1838 ; 

 and it has yielded a large amount of stone. The other quarry is 80 

 rods easterly from the first and within three-quarters of a mile of the 

 town line. It was opened in 1875. The beds are more irregular 

 and the stone is not so fine-grained as in the other. These quarries 

 furnish flagging for Ithaca and vicinity. 



Sandstone for the Cornell University buildings was quarried on 

 the site of Cascadilla Hall, and at a quarry in front of the main build- 

 ing, but lower on the hillside. Another quarry was opened near the 



