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dresses well. The product of this quarry is now shipped for canal 

 construction. There is very little water to be raised. Two derricks 

 are used at the quarry and two at the dock on the lake shore. A large 

 amount of stone from this quarry has been used on the Lehigh Valley 

 R. R. at its Vosburg tunnel. Pa. 



The Hamburgh group of quarries were first opened at least 60 

 years ago, and the old grist mill in the village was built of this stone j 

 also the Chase House and the house of Robert Howland. And they 

 are witnesses to its durability. 



Phillip Winegar's Quarry is on the east side of the road, and 

 is opened a length of 600 feet. Its working face is 40 to 50 feet 

 deep. A vertical section shows : drift earth, with large limestone 

 boulders, 10 feet thick.; calcareous slate, brown color, two beds, five 

 feet ; blue limestone, in beds, one inch to 24 inches, 30 feet. At the 

 bottom there is a bluish-black, slaty rock. The black, slaty-rock 

 courses at the top answer for common rubble or wall work. The 

 thick beds are used for heavy mason work, for which this stone is 

 specially adapted. The courses, between three and four inches thick, 

 are usually cut into flagging. The succession of beds corresponds 

 with that at the Mosher quarry, and the flinty cap on the 24-inch- 

 bed is 14 feet above the bottom of the quarry. The earthy layer, 

 known locally, as '• soapstone" also appears in this quarry, and over 

 the "flint" Two derricks are in use in the quarry, and one on the 

 dock. A tramway runs from it under the main road to the dock, one- 

 fifth of a mile away. A large force of men is here employed in 

 quarrying stone, and in stripping in the winter. At present the out- 

 put is largely used for the construction of locks on the Erie canal. 

 The stone are shipped by boat on the lake and canal. 



The Quarry of A. B. Niles is about 80 yards from the west 

 end of Winegar's, and on the west side of the road. A large area 

 has been worked over. These quarry beds show some disturbance, 

 and as now exposed, the strata dip south, and are also horizontal in 

 places. A track runs from the quarry to the dock on the lake. The 

 place is at present idle. 



Patrick Smith's Quarry is on the hill, 100 yards south of 

 Winegar's, on the east side of the road. At the north end the beds 

 dip 30° north-west, whereas in the centre and in the south part they 

 are horizontal or nearly so. The quarry face is about 600 feet in 



