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business. The marble occurs in two thick beds, and blocks of 100 

 cubic feet are readily gotten out from them. The mass is nearly 

 black, fine-grained and dense. It is hard and brittle, but is capable 

 of being dressed in any style. It takes a brilliant polish, and th© 

 polished surfaces are jet black. For tiling it is particularly well 

 adapted, as it does not wear slippery and it retains its color. For sills, 

 lintels, water-tables and general house trimmings also, it makes a first 

 class material. The mill, with four gangs of saws, is at the west end 

 of the quarry and near the bridge. Tiles, shelves, mantels, sills, 

 lintels, coping-stone, wainscoting, billiard table tops and material for 

 all inside decorative work are cut. The interior trimmings of the 

 Equitable Life Insurance building, New York, is one of the best 

 examples of this marble. Its market is all over the country as far 

 as Chicago and New Orleans. And it is said that some of the so- 

 called "imported" black marble comes from these quarries. 



As the quarry is in the side of the river bank the drainage is 

 natural. Very little blasting is done, excepting in the top rock. The 

 waste (spalls, etc.) are burned into lime. The quarry is a half a mile 

 from the Delaware & Hudson Canal Co.'s (Glens Falls) railroad and 

 at the side of the canal (Champlain feeder). 



Whitehall, Washington County. — The Arana Marble Com- 

 pany (of Rutland, Vermont) has opened a quarry in the Chazy lime- 

 stone formation, about half way between Whitehall and Fairhaven, 

 and at the side of the Rutland railway line. The limestone is com- 

 pact, sub-crystalline, and has a veined appearance. The ledge which 

 has been opened is below the water level and close to the track. It 

 has not as yet been developed into what may be called a marble 

 quarry. At present the limestone of a sidehill outcrop, on the same 

 property, is quarried extensively for flux, which is used at Troy. 



Crown Point, Essex County. — Blue limestone of the Trenton 

 period is quarried at the side of the New York and Canada railroad, 

 about one mile north of the Crown Point station. The stone is fine- 

 grained and suited for building. It has been used at Port Henry, 

 Plattsburgh, Saratoga and points along the railroad, for curbing and 

 some cut work. 



Willsborough Neck, Essex County. — The Chazy limestone for- 

 mation (which underlies this neck or low promontory) has been 

 opened in two quarries. They are on what is known as Lagoneer or 



