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rubble work. The Jamestown stone is olive-green in color, fine- 

 grained, soft and breaks with a conchoidal fracture. It has had an 

 extensive use at Chautauqua and in Jamestown, both for founda- 

 tions and retaining walls and for house trimmings. 



Other localities in Chautauqua county are in Panama ; in the 

 town of Clymer; in Westfield, near Lake Erie ; and at Laona, 

 in Pomfret. The quarries at these places are too small and com- 

 paratively unimportant for general description. 



Bluestone Quarries of New York by Wm. G. Eberhardt, E. M. 



The area in which bluestone is quarried in New York State ex- 

 tends from the west shore of the Hudson river, in Albany, Ulster 

 and Greene counties, in a southwesterly direction through Ulster, 

 Delaware and Sullivan counties to the Delaware river; and there 

 is a small isolated region in Chenango county, in the towns of 

 Oxford and Norwich. 



The region has been opened in the towns of Kingston and Sau- 

 gerties, Ulster county, and Catskill, Athens and Coxsackie, 

 Greene county, at numerous points from which the stone is carted 

 by the quarrymen to the Hudson, where it is bought by various 

 dealers along the lines of the Ulster and Delaware railroad, the 

 Port Jervis and Monticello railroad, the New York, Ontario and 

 "Western railroad, the Erie railroad, and the Delaware and Hud- 

 son canal. The last-named district extends through the towns 

 of Mamakating, Sullivan county, and "Wawarsing and Marbletown, 

 Ulster county. Very little quarrying is done in the district at 

 present. 



Of the quarries whose output is shipped via the Hudson river 

 the most important are in the town of Saugerties, Ulster county. 

 The quarries in this township are located at Quarry ville, "West 

 Saugerties, High wood, Bethel and Unionville. This district has 

 been extensively opened and much stone is produced, although 

 here, as also in the Ulster and Delaware district, the business of 

 quarrying has greatly diminished in recent years. The largest 

 quarries in the town of Saugerties are at Quarry ville, about four 

 miles west of the Hudson. The quarries here are on ledges of stone, 

 running parallel to the Hudson up into Greene county. Besides 

 a number of small quarries there are two large openings. One 

 of these is abandoned, owing to inadequate pumping facilities. 



