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layers than in the bottom, and very hard. The bed has been 

 worked downward twelve feet, below which the depth is un- 

 known. The top is mostly loose earth and varies from two to 

 ten feet in depth. 



There are several large quarries at Uankins in the town of 

 Fremont. The largest is operated by Manny & Ross. It is one 

 and one-fourth miles northeast of the village, and employs about 

 twenty men in the active season. A quarry face of 300 to 400 

 feet in length has been opened, but only a small part of it is 

 worked. The workable bed is twenty to twenty-five feet in 

 thickness. Lifts of all thicknesses up to twenty inches are taken 

 out. The quarry has been worked for eight years and a large 

 quantity of stone is still in sight, but most of it is covered by a 

 very heavy top of rock. The hardness of stone in this locality 

 varies considerably. Louis E. Bliss buys stone at this place. 



At Long Eddy and Basket, in the same township, there are 

 extensive workings. Kenney Brothers have a large quarry at 

 Long Eddy, about one fourth of a mile from the railroad. This 

 quarry has been worked three or four years and has yielded 400 

 to 500 carloads of stone. The bed is eighteen feet deep, and the 

 ledge on which the quarry is situated runs nearly north and 

 south. The top is quite heavy, being mostly rock, twelve to twenty 

 feet deep, but much broken up and easily removed with the aid 

 of powder.^ Lifts are from one to twelve inches in thickness. 

 The stone is all blue, soft and easily worked. C. W. Martin, F. 

 A. Kilgour and L. E. Bliss get stone from these quarries. 



In the town of Hancock, Delaware county, quarrying is carried 

 on very extensively. There are quarries in the Delaware valley 

 at Lordville, Stockport and Hancock, and also on the line of the 

 Xew York, Ontario and "Western railroad. Of the quarries in 

 the Delaware valley, the largest are at Lordville and Stockport. 

 The stone from these places is very well suited for ornamental 

 purposes. It is durable and easily worked. That from Lordville 

 is handled by F. A. Kilgour, Randall & Underwood and Kirk- 

 patrick Bros. The Stockport stone is claimed to be especially 

 free from " reeds," making it well adapted to stand frost and 

 weathering. It is handled by Kirkpatrick Bros., of Hancock. 

 Farther up the valley there are quarries at Hale's Eddy and 

 Deposit, Tompkins township, Delaware county, and also a few 



