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about 100 yards in length from east to west, and 50 feet high, of 

 which 40 feet is rock. The bottom beds are on an average, one foot 

 thick, and furnish stone for cut work. 



The quarry of John McVeigh is on the left bank of the stream, 

 and diagonally across from the last named. Its face looks south, and 

 is 500 feet long and 50 feet high. The strata are horizontal. The 

 upper beds areshaly and irregularly interstratified with thin layers of 

 sandstone, two to ten inches thick. At the bottom, the beds are twelve 

 to twenty inches thick, and they furnish stone for cut work. The 

 top stone is used for common walls and rubble work. The joints or 

 seams are at irregular distances apart. The main systems run north 30° 

 west and south 55° west, the first being vertical, the second dipping 

 steeply north-west. The stripping is three to ten feet thick. The 

 drainage is natural, and no machinery is used. The quarry was 

 opened first in 1852. An old opening 100 yards north-east of Mr. 

 McVeigh's, and at the side of the railroad track, is idle. 



A more recent opening is that further to the east, on the right bank 

 of the stream, and on the south side of the railroad track, about a 

 mile and a half from the station. Its face fronts north, and has a length 

 of 50 yards, and a height of 40 feet at the west end, and 30 feet at 

 the east end. A section shows drift earth at the top, five to twelve 

 feet thick; then, shales and sandstone, alternating irregularly, being 

 thicker at the bottom, which is nearly on a level with the creek. 

 The beds are horizontal. One system of joints runs south 65° west, dip- 

 ping 75° to 80° north-north-west ; the second, a vertical system, runs 

 north-west. The upper 20 feet are mostly thin beds of shaly stone. 

 The lower 20 feet are strata from 6 to 12 inches thick. 



The stone of these quarries is fine-grained, soft and breaks with 

 conchoidal fracture, and has an olive-green color. It has been used 

 in Jamestown and Chautauqua for foundations, and is dressed 

 for house trimmings. It is largely used for retaining walls also. The 

 formation is Chemung. 



Other localities in Chautauqua county arc in Panama and west of 

 Chautauqua lake ; in the town of Clymer, and near the Pennsylvania 

 line ; in Westfield, near Lake Erie ; and in Laconia, in Pom fret. But 

 at all of them there is much waste in the shape of shales associated 

 with the sandstone beds. 



New Red Sandstone. 



Nyack, Rockland County. — Between Nyack and Piermont, on 

 the west shore of the Hudson river, sandstone is quarried at two 



