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involved in working it, as compared with softer sandstones and 

 limestones. 



The plant includes a planer, rubbing-bed and three gangs 

 of saws, driven by steam power, besides quarrying machinery 

 proper. 



The principal use is for house trimmings and large platforms 

 and steps. During the quarrying season one hundred and fifty 

 men are employed, and in 18S9 one thousand four hundred car- 

 loads of stone were shipped. The market is in the cities of the 

 eastern States. 



The lower portion of Aldrich court, 41-43 Broadway, the 

 steps, residence of Cyrus Clark, Riverside avenue and Ninetieth 

 street, New York ; steps in the terrace approaching the Capitol, 

 "Washington, District of Columbia ; steps, platforms and column 

 bases of Capitol, Trenton, New Jersey ; St. Lawrence Hall, New 

 Haven, Connecticut ; part of State Prison for Insane Criminals, 

 Matteawan, New York, are some of the examples of construction 

 in which the Oxford blue sandstone has been employed. 



Small quarries producing flagging stone mainly are opened at 

 South Oxford, Chenango County- 

 Coventry, Chenango County 

 Smithville Flats, Chenango County 

 Guilford, Chenango County 

 Oneonta, Otsego County 

 Cooperstown, Otsego County 



They are worked at irregular times as demand calls for stone. 



Trumansburg, Tompkins County. — In the vicinity of Tru- 

 mansburg there are twenty or more quarries which produce 

 four hundred thousand square feet of flagging annually. Two 

 of them only do a little business in building stone, the quarries of 

 D. S. Biggs & Sons and of the Flagstone and Building Stone Com- 

 pan}^. That of the latter is one mile east of the village and less 

 than a mile from Cayuga lake. The grayish bluestone of the 

 lower course of the quarry is fine-grained, and is cut into lintels, 

 sills and curbing at the company's works at Cayuga, or shipped 

 to their yards at Mott Haven, New York. 



The Biggs quarry is on the Taughannock creek about two 

 miles west of the lake and near the Geneva, Ithaca and Sayre 



