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of the county alms-house and of Wilmot Durland. The stone occurs 

 in thick-beds. It weathers in some blocks to a light-drab to 

 a straw-yellow shade, but it is not unsightly, excepting the variation 

 in a wall due to two or three shades in the several blocks. The 

 locality is worked at irregular times, and by builders who have con- 

 tracts for buildings. A fine example of the massive appearance of 

 the large, heavy blocks in course work, is to be seen in the Presbyte- 

 rian church at Goshen. Other structures of this stone are the Meth- 

 odist Episcopal and Roman Catholic churches in the same town, and 

 the Roman Catholic church in Chester. The quarry was opened 

 about twenty years ago. It is a half a mile from Orange Farm 

 station of the Pine Island Bra. railroad. 



Newburgh. — Limestone is quarried south-west of Newburgh, near 

 the old Cochecton turnpike, and on the north side of Snake moun- 

 tain. The Brown Limestone Company has an opening near this road. 

 It is 100 yards in diameter and 30 to 40 feet deep. Although the 

 principal business is the quarrying of stone for lime making, a part 

 of the quarry product is sold for common foundation walls. 



West-south-west of the above mentioned quarry, limestone was 

 opened and worked for the West Shore viaduct in the city of New- 

 burgh. At this place the stone is plainly-bedded, and the dip is 40° 

 south 5° east. The stone from this same range was used in St. 

 George's Protestant Episcopal church in Newburgh. It has been 

 used largely for foundation work and for retaining walls also in 

 Newburgh. 



Another Newburgh quarry is north of the city and at the side of 

 the river road. It is small and its output inconsiderable. 



New Hamburgh, Dutchess County. — A blue, magnesian lime- 

 stone is quarried by the N. Y. C. & H. R. R. R. Co. at the side of 

 their track two miles north of New Hamburgh. The beds dip west- 

 erly at an angle of about 30°. The beds are one foot to eighteen 

 inches thick. The stone is used for bridge work. 



Kingston, Ulster County. — The quarries in the Onondaga Lime- 

 stone are opened in the city of Kingston on lands of J. O'Reilly, 

 about a quarter to three-eighths of a mile south-west of the Kingston 



Note. The so-called Glens Falls marble, the Lepanto marble and the Hudson coral- 

 shell marble will be found described under their respective heads in this section on 

 limestones. 



