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beds of sandstone are from 1 to 3 feet thick, and are interbedded 

 with some shale. It is not worked. 



At the south of the town and on the north point of the hill an old 

 quarry has been reopened lately by A. D. Simon, of Elmira, for rip- 

 rap work on canal in Corning. 



The stone of the Corning quarries has been used in Elmira, in the 

 Congregational church and in the State Reformatory buildings. 



In Corning the old Arsenal , the R. C. church ; First Presby- 

 terian church, and the Prot. E. church buildings, are all of this 

 stone. In the Arsenal building, which was erected thirty years ago, 

 the stone shows some si^iis of a^e, owin^ to bad selection. The best 

 example of the Corning stone can be seen in the basement of the 

 High school, and in the basement story of the residence near the 

 public school. In the latter great care was taken to select the large 

 and best colored stone in the quarries. 



Dansville, Livingston County. — The quarry of Frank Schub- 

 mehl. This quarry is one mile north-east of Dansville. The open- 

 ing has a working face 250 feet long, and the stripping is clay loam, 

 two feet thick. The beds lie nearly horizontal, and there are no reg- 

 ular joints. There are six courses or beds, which average 18 inches 

 thick, and ten feet of courses, which are three to six inches thick, 

 making a total of 19 feet of quarry beds. The stone has a bluish- 

 gray color, is fine-grained and hard, but with it there is a soft, argilla- 

 ceous sandstone, which is thrown out as waste. This quarry has been 

 opened for about 35 years. It is worked in a small way. The pro- 

 duct is flag-stone, common wall stone and cut stone. The Sanitarium, 

 the Methodist church, and the Union Free school at Dansville are 

 constructed of this stone. 



Cohocton, Steuben County. — Theodore Whitney quarries stone 

 on lands of S. M. Woodworth, two miles north-east of Cohocton. The 

 stripping is clay, and of an average thickness of 4 feet. The quarry 

 face has a length of 200 feet, and in it there are probably 75 beds, or 

 courses of stone, 20 feet of which are workable. These workable 

 courses vary from two inches to six inches thick. The joints of the 

 quarry run north 5° east, vertical, and the stone is light-gray and 

 bluish-gray in color, with a small part of it reddish-brown. The 

 working season lasts six to seven months, and the output is all for flag- 

 ging, which is used in the adjacent towns. 



