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of this quarry costly. On\y the superior value aud quality of the 

 gray limestone compensates for the heavy work of stripping. 



From McElroy's quarry it is 200 yards south-south-west to Crab- 

 tree's. This quarry has a face of 200 feet in length. Boulder-drift 

 earth, up to 10 feet thick, covers the blue limestone, and with the 

 limestone, makes a total thickness of 20 feet of stripping, before the 

 gray stone is reached. The same gray bed, with tight seams, is 

 seen at the bottom of the quarry. 



Storrier's quarry is about 20 rods south of Crabtree's. It was 

 opened three years ago. The beds dip east-south-east, ^slightly. JAt 

 the west side the drift earth lies immediately on the gray bed, which 

 is four and a half feet thick. The blue, shaly limestone comes in at 

 the top as you go eastward. 



The gray bed seems to run out southward, and beyond Storrier's 

 quarry. The water in these Reservation quarries is raised by siphons 

 and carried over to a stream in the valley on the west side of them. 

 They are worked more or less all of the year, or so long as the weather 

 permits. The stone is all carted by teams to Syracuse, six and a 

 half miles distaut. It has a gray color, crystalline texture, and in the 

 market is known as " Onondaga gray limestone." It is a strong and 

 solid building stone, and does not show the black seams, marking 

 some of our limestones, nor day seams, so common in nearly all of 

 the Mohawk valley and Hudson-Champlain valley limestones. When 

 fine cut, the color is light-gray, approaching the best of the Maine 

 granites, and in pleasing contrast to the rock face stone, which is 

 much darker in shade. It has been the principal building stone in 

 Syracuse, and there are many fine structures in that city which are 

 of it. Notable among them are the new U. S. Government building, 

 Hall of Languages, Syracuse University, Onondaga County Savings 

 Bank building, St. Paul's P. E. church, St. Mary's R. C. church, 

 and the May Memorial church. A large amount of this stone has 

 been put into lock facings on the Erie canal, especially east of Syra- 

 cuse. It has found a ready market in Oswego, Binghamton and other 

 cities in the central part of the State. 



Union Springs, Cayuga County. — The Onondaga limestone is 

 opened in a group of quarries at Hamburgh, a mile south of Union 

 Springs, and at Mosher's quarry east of the same place. 



The quarry of Daniel Mosher is one mile east of the lake. It was 

 first opened many years ago. But little stone was taken out until 

 1879, since which date it has been actively worked. The quarry is 



