98 Report on Building Stone of New York. 



Saratoga Springs, Saratoga County. — Blue limestone for 

 common masonry has been quarried at several places in the town,, 

 but at no one of them is the business of quarrying continuous. The 

 largest exposure of quarry beds in the town, is north of the Red 

 spring and east of North Broadway about 2G0 yards. The beds are 

 dipping 8° south and are thick, and the stone is light-blue color. 

 For more than 1,000 feet the ledge has been worked. The upper 

 layers, aggregating eight feet in thickness, are quarried. A second 

 ledge, to the west a few rods, has been worked down five feet. 



Three miles west of the town limestone is quarried by Chas. Slade* 

 Isaac Wager, Prince Wing and Jas. A. Lee. 



The quarry of Charles Slade is located on the gently sloping side 

 of a low ridge which borders on the north the Washington street 

 road. The older quarrying work was done east of the present site. 

 The working face is 100 yards long from east to west, and is 10 to 

 20 feet in height. The vertical section shows the following order of 

 succession in the beds, from top downwards : 



1. Boulder-drift earth ._ 3 feet. 



2. Hard, thin-bedded, pale blue limestone, 10 feet. 



3. Dark-blue limestone 2 feet 6 inches. 



4. Dark- blue limestone __ _ 1 foot 8 inches. 



5. Dark-blue limestone ._ 1 loot 3 inches. 



6. Dark-blue limestone 1 foot 6 inches. 



In the upper 10 feet, and lying immediately upon (3) there is a 

 light-colored bed which is 16 inches thick. The beds dip to the 

 south-west at about 3 feet in 100 feet. The main system of joints 

 is vertical and runs in a south-west course. A system, whose course 

 is at right angles to the first, is vertical also. The joint faces are 

 frequently coated with small crystals of culcite. The top beds are 

 hard and the stone is not easily dressed. The dark-blue stone is softer 

 and is easily worked. Two derricks, worked by horse power, are in 

 use. The quarry now has a natural drainage, but deeper sinking 

 will necessitate pumping. The stone is carted by teams to Saratoga 

 Springs, where it is shipped by rail to destination. The large market 

 is for heavy (bridge) work on lines of the Delaware & Hudson Canal 

 Company. Some of it goes to Saratoga tor foundation, retaining 

 walls, etc. This quarry was first opened ten years ago. 



Prince Wing's quarry is at Rowland's Mills, and on the south bank 

 of the stream. And the beds here exposed lie above those in Slade's 



