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Storm-king Mountain. — The granite quarry at the ^south- 

 eastern face of Storm-king mountain, near the West Shore rail- 

 road track, and a half mile south of Cornwall station, has not 

 been in operation for several years. 



Break-neck Mountain Quarry. — Granite has been^quarried 

 at several points on the southwest side of this mountain and 

 north of Cold Spring. The quarry sites extend nearly a mile 

 back from the river ; and the work has been to detach blocks of 

 large size by blasting and then to break them up into|building 

 stones or paving blocks as called for. The Hudson River Broken 

 Stone and Supply Company is now working on the lands of 

 Lewis J. Bailey, producing stone for railroad track ballast. 



Mount Adam, Warwick, Orange County! — Granite was 

 quarried at a locality, opened in 1889, on the north end of Mount 

 Adam. 



Little Falls, Herkimer County. — A hornblendic-gneiss"rock, 

 known as "blue rock," is quarried at Little Falls for the local 

 market. It was used in the construction of the Erie canal, the 

 1ST. Y. C. & PL R. R. JR., in the R. C. and the Pres. churches, besides 

 several mill and store buildings in the town. The stone^has a 

 greenish-gray color, moderately fine-crystalline texture, and is 

 made up of orthoclase, quartz and hornblende. Some of it has a 

 reddish tinge, due to iron stains. 



Granite has been quarried in the town of Wilton, two miles 

 north of Saratoga, in the town of Greenfield, and at Wolf Creek, 

 in the town of Hadley. None of these quarries are worked 

 regularly or uninterruptedly. 



Adirondack Granite Company, Westport, Essex County. — 

 The granite quarry on Splitrock mountain near the lake, and 

 three miles from Whallonsburg, has been abandoned. Very 

 little stone has been quarried here and little is known of it. 



Ausable Granite, Essex County. — The Ausable granite is 

 obtained from quarries on the north and west slopes of Prospect 

 Hill, one and a half miles south of Keeseville. The principal 

 openings are the property of the Ausable Granite Co., whose 

 establishment for dressing the stone is located in Keeseville. 

 This stone is moderately fine crystalline in texture and is composed 



