QUARTZYTES AND SANDSTONES. 89 



Bath, Steuben County. — Two quarries of sandstone are worked 

 in the town of Bath. The quarry of W. & Geo. Jincks is one and a 

 half miles north-east of the town. The opening is 300 feet long, and 

 about 20 feet high, with a stripping of 5 \ feet. The beds are nearly 

 horizontal. About 20 courses are suitable for common wall work, 

 and two courses do for cut stone. The stone is of a light-gray 

 color, hard and fine-grained. The quarry is worked from about the 

 20th of May until the middle of September. Curb-stone flagging 

 and common, wall stone are here quarried. The Protestant Episco- 

 pal church and the county buildings in Bath, are constructed of this 

 stone. 



The Miller quarry is three-fourths of a mile north of Bath. It has 

 a face 150 feet long. The vertical section consists of 3 feet of clay, 

 then shales, 5 to 7 feet, below which are workable courses or beds. 

 Some of the thin beds are used for flagging, and these partly pay for 

 the cost of removing the top rock or the shales and clay covering. 

 The cut stone courses are 2 feet 5 inches, and 1 foot 9 inches thick, 

 respectively. This stone is fine-grained, medium soft, and is of a 

 gray shade in color. The quarry is worked three to four months 

 of the year. The principal market is Bath. The Baptist church, 

 erected this year, is of this stone. It sells in the town, delivered, 

 at 50 cents per perch for wall stone, and $4.50 a yard for the cut 

 stone. 



Hornellsville, Steuben County. — Two quarries are opened 

 and worked in the vicinity of Hornellsville. That of Jos. F. Cobb 

 is located one and a half miles south of the town. The quarry face 

 runs 175 feet and 30 feet back. The stripping has an average thick- 

 ness of five feet. The total thickness of the workable beds is 22 feet, 

 of which three to four feet is somewhat slaty and of little value. The 

 dip is very slightfy south, about 1 foot in 70. Two systems of joints 

 divide the rock at right angles to one another. They are vertical and 

 run north 50° east, and south 40° west. The stone is of a bluish shade 

 in color, hard and fine-grained, and, in some of the beds, clayey. The 

 adjacent outcrops on the steep hillside show that the sandstone 

 beds are a durable stone. The quarry was opened in 1883. It is 

 worked during the summer season. The product is mostly common 

 building stone, and it is cut for the market at Hornellsville. The 

 Park school-house, recently erected, and the electric light building 

 and several stores and residences are built of this stone. 



