90 Report on Building Stone of New York. 



Two miles south of Hornellsville is the quarry of Morris Powers. 

 Its length is 150 feet, and its height at the back 35 feet. The strip- 

 ping is six to seven feet thick, clay and shales mixed. The bedding, 

 the joints and the stone, in color and in texture, are somewhat similar 

 to what is stated above of the Cobb quarry. This quarry was opened 

 in 1881. The output is small. The price for the stone in Bath is 

 70 cents per perch. 



A sandstone was formerly quarried a little in the town at Green- 

 wood, for home supply. 



Belmont, Allegany County. — William Storr's quarry. This 

 quarry is a quarter of a mile south-west of the village of Belmont. 

 The stripping is two to two and a half feet thick, soil and one and a 

 half to two feet of shales. There are seven to eight courses or beds 

 worked. Two of them are used for cut stone. The aggregate thick- 



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ness of the quarry beds is 12 feet. The heaviest stone is 30 inches 

 thick. There are two sets of joints, one running north 50° east, and 

 another, which is also vertical, making an angle of 70° with the first. 

 The freshly fractured surfaces are light-blue in color ; and when cut 

 it has a light-gray shade. It is rather soft and easily dressed. It is 

 worked from the middle of May to the middle of December, and 

 the principal markets are Belmont, Wellsville and Angelica. Vauder- 

 hoef 's block in Belmont, besides other buildings, are of this stone. 

 The prices range at about $1.00 per perch for common wall stone to 

 $4.50 per yard for cut stone ; the latter, however, at the quarry. 



Belvidere, Allegany County. — The quarry of H. Whitcomb. 

 This place is worked by Alfred Dibble, and is half a mile from the 

 Belvidere railroad station. About one-fourth of an acre has been 

 worked over. The gravel loam covering averages about 5 feet in 

 thickness. The strata lie nearly horizontal. One system of joints 

 runs north 15° w T est, and is crossed by another nearly at right angles, 

 and both of them are vertical. The beds range in thickness from 18 

 inches to 3 feet 10 inches. The stone is of a light-gray shade in color, 

 medium soft and dresses readily. It is said that this quarry has been 

 opened for about thirty-five years. It is worked in a small way for 

 six months of the year, and produces cut stone for house trimmings, 

 monument bases, horse blocks, hitching posts, etc., and it is used in 

 Belvidere, Friendship, Angelica, and a little of it in Wellsville and 

 Hornellsville. 



