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BLUESTONE AND OTHER SANDSTONES , 95 



and grain the stone is very similar to the Portage bluestone. 

 It holds the color well on exjjosure and is easily worked. 



The quarries are in the shajje of irregular ijits, the vertical 

 joints forming the sides and ends. The blocks are cut, how- 

 ever, by channeling machines. The channel makes a cut 

 5 feet 9 inches in depth, 2^^ wide at tofj and IJ" wide at the 

 bottom; 18 to 20 linear feet can be cut every 10 hours. The 

 level of the beds is below that of the surrounding country and 

 water is very troublesome. It is handled by steam pumps. 



The equijjment of the Warsaw bluestone co. consists of a 

 Wardwell channeling machine, three drills, a steam pump, two 

 steam hoisting derricks; and a mill at Rock Glen with 12 gang 

 saws, two planers, one borer, one circular saw, one lathe and 

 four steam hoisting derricks. 45 men are emjjloyed in the 

 quarry, and 20 men in the mill during the season. 



Otis & Gage have a mill in course of erection within 100 

 yards of their quarry. A gravity railway connects the two. 

 The mill is to be fully equijjijed with saws, jjlaners, lathes etc. 

 At the quarry there is in ojjeration one Sullivan channeling 

 machine, one steam drill, a steam hoisting derrick and a steam 

 pumfj. 50 men are employed in quarry and mill. 



Both mills are connected with the Erie railroad by side 

 tracks. The market for this stone is in New York, Elmira, 

 Corning, Binghamton, Philadeljjhia and 3j[ashington. 



The following are examples of its use in construction: St 



Josexjh's school at Buffalo; catholic school at Middletown; 



catholic church at Binghamton; armories at Brooklyn, Hudson, 



Hornellsville and Tonawanda; Vassar college at Poughkeepsie; 



residences at Corning, and the residence of N. S. Beardsley at 



Warsaw. 



Waverly, Tioga co. 



Gilbert Edgecomb's quarry is 2 miles north of Waverly, west 



of the Lehigh Valley railroad on a hillside. The quarry is 100 



feet above the level of the valley. The hight of the face at the 



back is 75 feet, and the length 125 feet in a north and south 



direction. The bed is covered with 4 feet of earth. The stone 



