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one dollar and sixty-five cents per ton as against one dollar and 

 fifteen cents per ton via Erie railroad. 



Other places in the town of Lumberland at which bluestone is 

 quarried are in the district opposite Parker's Glen, Penn., and 

 Barryville. At the first named of these places the total output 

 is probably less than $100 per month. The stone quarried is 

 suitable only for flagstone. Prices paid for the stone by dealers 

 are from forty-two to forty- five cents per cubic foot or three and 

 one-half to three and three-fourths cents per inch. Yery little 

 stone is quarried at Barryville. That district is nearly exhausted. 



In the town of Tusten quarrying is carried on extensively 

 opposite Mast Hope, Penn., and at Tusten. Many small quarries 

 are worked at these places, besides a number of larger ones 

 employing ten to fifteen men operated by J. Q. A. Conner & Son 

 of Mast Hope, and C. W. Martin, of Middle town, K Y. The 

 stone is quite hard, but not uniformly so, and of several shades of 

 blue; but hardness and color are quite uniform in the same 

 quarry. The thickness of lifts varies from one to eighteen or 

 twenty inches. At Mast Hope a reddish stone is quarried, but 

 only true bluestone is found on the New York side of the river 

 at this point. At Narrowsburg, in the same township, there are 

 a number of quarries. Jeremiah Partridge works three quarries 

 at this point. Two of them are within one-fourth of a mile and 

 the third within three-fourths of a mile of the stone docks at 

 JNTarrowsburg. The stone in all of them is of good blue color and 

 readily worked. The lifts in the farther quarry are heavier and 

 the stone somewhat harder. The owner intends putting steam 

 drills in this quarry. In Cochecton township there are some 

 small quarries at Cochecton village, but only a few of them are 

 being worked. 



In Delaware township there are quarries at Callicoon and at 

 Kock Eun. The quarry of Persbacker Bros. & Co., at Callicoon, 

 is about one-half mile northwest of the village. During fifteen 

 months that it has been w T orked about fifty carloads of fifteen to 

 eighteen tons each have been shipped from it. All this stone has 

 been taken from a single block twenty-five by forty-three feet in 

 area. Five men are at work in this quarry. Most of the 

 material taken out is flagstone, but some ten and twelve-inch lifts 

 have been raised. The stone is of good color, bluer in the top 



