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Another quarry in limestone in the same town is at East Spring- 

 field, on the road to Cherry Valley. 



Perryville, Madison County. — The Onondaga gray limestone 

 is well exposed in the creek gorge at Perryville ; and it was fii-st 

 opened for building stone, more than 60 years ago, at the time of the 

 Erie canal construction. There are now three quarries in the place, 

 which are worked to some extent. They belong to the E. C. & N. 

 E. R. Company, O. F. Britt, and the J. T. Smith estate. 



Oriskany Falls, Oneida County. — M. Juhl quarries limestone 

 for building and for furnace flux about a half a mile from the N. Y., 

 O. & W. railroad station, at this place. A great face of stone is 

 opened and is reached by a switch from main line into the quarry. 

 The covering of earth is 2 feet thick. Then follow : the blue lime- 

 stone, 10 to 30 feet thick ; and next, in beds ranging from tour inches 

 to two and a half feet thick, blue limestone suited to building. The 

 quarry was first opened at the time of the Chenango canal construction. 



There are quarries at Waterville and Cassville, also in Oneida 

 county, and on the line of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western 

 railroad. They are in the Corniferous limestone. 



Manlius, Onondaga County. — Loomis' quarry, at Manlius, is iu 

 the gray, Onondaga limestone. It is worked for monumental stone 

 and for house trimmings. The locality is on the Syracuse, Ontario 

 and New York railroad line. 



The Jamesville quarry is in the same range, and it is worked for 

 bridge work mainly. The Syracuse and Binghamton railroad line 

 runs through the place. 



Split-Rock Quarries, Onondaga County. — These quarries are 

 in the town of Onondaga, five to seven miles westerly from the city 

 of Syracuse. They are opened in the north edge of the Upper Hel- 

 derherg escarpment. The most eastern opening is that of Hughes 

 Brothers, on the Fay place, five miles from Syracuse, and on the south 

 side of the road, and about two and a half miles east-south-east of the 

 main group of quarries. It was opened in 1877. The earth cover- 

 ing does not average more than one foot in thickness. Thus far only 

 the top course has been quarried, which is 2 feet 6 inches thick. 

 The stone is gray, crystalline, and softer than that of the quarries on 

 the west. It dresses well and makes a good material for house work. 



