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does well for cut work. The blue stoue is put iuto heavy masonry 

 and common, wall work. The dip of the strata is a few degrees and 

 to south-west ; and the vertical joints run in the same direction. The 

 drainage is natural ; and the bottom of the quarry is 20 feet above 

 the railroad track. Three derricks are in use. The stone is carted 

 by team to the canal or to the Palatine Bridge station ; and a 

 large amount has been quarried here during the past season. The 

 stone of this quarry may be seen in the East avenue Presbyterian 

 church of Schenectady. 



Win. Johnson of Palatine Bridge opened a quarry on his lands in 

 the north-western part of the village the past season. 



These quarries are in the Calciferous formation. 



Little Falls, Herkimer County. — The Calciferous sandrock is 

 quarried at several places in and near this town, in the bluff to the 

 north. Three of the quarries are near one another, north-e^st of the 

 town and a half a mile from the Central railroad station. At the most 

 western quarry the face is 100 feet long and 20 to 30 feet high. The 

 beds are nearly horizontal and from one to two feet thick. The 

 stone is light-gray shade and is fine-grained. It is used for com- 

 mon wall work. 



The next quarry to the east is 300 feet long, from east to west, and 

 is 55 feet high, and has in it 30 beds. One main system of joints is 

 vertical and strikes north-west. The stone has a bluish-gray shade of 

 color, weathering light-gray on exposed edges. It is fine-grained. 

 At the top the beds are somewhat decomposed, and the stone is rot- 

 ten, and of little value for building purposes. The lower beds are 

 1£ to 2 feet thick. 



The next quarry, to the east 20 rods, has a length of 300 to 350 

 feet and a maximum height of 40 feet. At this quarry also, the 

 top strata are much weathered and disintegrated, and of no value as 

 building stone. It does not appear to have been worked in some 

 time. The stone resembles closely that of the quarry next it on the 

 west. Both of these old quarries are in the rear of the street and 

 200 feet from it. The stone from them is used for cellar walls and 

 retaining walls and for street curbing. The gneissic rock outcrops are 

 to the south, less than 300 feet away, but on lower ground. 



One and a half miles north-north-west of Little Falls, on the Wil- 

 cox property, the Trenton limestone is quarried by Hanlon Brothers. 

 The locality is 300 to 400 feet above the Mohawk valley and a 

 quarter of a mile east of the school house. A thin layer of soil 



