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with a blow. The greater part of the product of these 

 quarries is in the form of paving blocks and is shipped to 

 western cities, principally Cincinnati and Chicago. The 

 International Granite Company of Montreal uses a large 

 amount for monumental work and building. Examples of 

 this granite can be seen in the large columns of the Senate 

 Chamber of the New Capitol, Albany, and in the Nord- 

 heimer building in Montreal. 



Limestones and Marbles. 



Marbles. 



New York City. — A white, crystalline limestone was 

 formerly quarried at Kingsbridge and used in the con- 

 struction of buildings in the city. The same limestone is 

 now exposed in the deep cut, made for the ship canal at 

 Fort George. Crystalline limestone has been quarried at 

 Morrisania and Mott Haven also, but they can scarcely be 

 called marbles in a proper sense, although used for ordinary 

 construction. 



Tremont, New York City. — Four quarries have been 

 opened in the white marble in Tremont, and worked for 

 house trimmings and ordinary construction. The Tremont 

 marble can be seen in the new buildings of St. John's 

 College, Fordham, where it has been used effectively with 

 the dark-blue gneiss. The output of these quarries is 

 small and unimportant. 



Tuckahoe, Westchester County — The Tuckahoe Marble 

 Company and the New York Marble Company quarry mar- 

 ble at Tuckahoe. The first named company works what 

 was formerly known as the Young's quarry. The latter 

 company has a large quarry adjoining it on the north. 

 The stone of these quarries Is coarsely-crystalline in tex- 

 ture and pure white. In composition it is a true dolomite. 

 A sample from the New York Quarry Company (J. M. 



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