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in the town of Sanford, Broome county, along the Erie R. R. At 

 Hale's Eddy all the stone is quarried or bought by O. M. Kings- 

 bury & Co. Randall & Underwood are the most extensive 

 operators at Deposit. The stone from these places is very soft, 

 and of different shades of color, from gray to dark-blue. Some of 

 the gray stone is very coarse-grained. 



Along the line of the New York, Ontario and Western rail- 

 road there are quarries in Sullivan county in the towns of Liberty 

 and Rockland; in Delaware county, in the towns of Colchester, 

 Hancock, Tompkins and Walton ; and in Chenango county, in 

 the towns of Oxford and Norwich. Yery little quarrying is 

 done in Liberty township. In Rockland township there are sev- 

 eral quarries at Roscoe, the largest of which are worked by Wm. 

 Youman. Farther up the road there are quarries at Cook's 

 Falls, town of Colchester, and in Hancock township at Trout 

 Brook, East Branch, Fish's Eddy and Hancock Junction. The 

 stone from all these places is of very much the same character as 

 to color and hardness. Geo. S. Harris quarries and buys all the 

 stone at East Branch. The quarries at this place are all small. 

 At Fish's Eddy the quarries are larger. Storie & Hollywood 

 work four quarries at this place. 



In the town of Tompkins, Delaware county, there are quarries 

 at Apex and Rock Rift. At the latter place E. C. Inderlied has 

 several quarries and a mill. At Walton, Walton township, sev- 

 eral quarries are worked. Jas. Nevins & Sons have a quarry 

 and mill on the Delhi division of the Ontario and Western rail- 

 road, about four miles from Walton Junction. The mill has 

 been removed from Weehawken to Walton, as it is cheaper to 

 ship the stone dressed than in the rough state. The workable 

 bed in the quarry is thirty feet in thickness and is covered by a 

 light top. The F. G. Clarke Bluestone Company quarries exten- 

 sively in the town of Oxford, Chenango county. The quarries 

 of this company are located at Oxford and at Coventry, four 

 miles to the southwest of Oxford, on the Delaware, Lacka- 

 wanna and Western railroad. The stone from both places is 

 dressed at the mill of the company at Oxford. The thickness 

 of the bed in the Oxford quarry is sixteen feet. The top is very 

 heavy, consisting of about forty feet of loose earth and twenty- 

 five feet of solid rock. In order to make a profit under such un- 



