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Little Falls, Herkimer County.^ — There are three quarries 

 In the calclferous sandrock, in the bluff north of the town, 

 which produce stone for common wall work for local use. 

 The stone Is fine-grained and of a bluish-gray shade of 

 color, weathering to gray. North-west of the town one 

 and a half miles, there Is a quarry on the Wilcox property 

 and In the Trenton and Birdseye limestone. The stone Is 

 sold for curbing and flagging mainly. 



Newport, Herkimer County. — In this town there are three 

 quarries In the limestone, which furnish stone for local use, 

 and for canal lock construction. 



Holland Patent, Oneida County The quarries In the 



Trenton limestone at this place are of local Importance only. 



Prospect, Oneida County. — The canon of the West 

 Canada creek has exposed the Trenton limestone between 

 this place and Trenton Falls, and made the upper beds 

 easily accessible, and workable to advantage. 



On the west side of the creek (Oneida county) Evan S. 

 Thomas and H. & L. W. Jones have quarries ; on the east 

 side, In Herkimer county, there are two quarries, worked by 

 Edward Callahan and George & Grififith of Utica. The 

 covering of soil and earth Is light, and Is thrown Into the 

 gorge with waste rock. The beds lie nearly horizontal and 

 are thin so as to be cut to advantage for platforms, flagging- 

 stone, lintels, sills and water-tables. The stone is carted to 

 Prospect station, one and a half miles, and there shipped. 



A representative specimen of the best stone from the 

 quarry of Evan S. Thomas was found to have a specific 

 gravity of 2.725 and a weight per cubic foot of 169.8 

 pounds. The percentage of lime 53.10 found, Indicates 

 94.82 per cent of calcium carbonate. The absorption per- 

 centage Is 0.14. The freezing and thawing tests produced 

 no apparent change; heating to i200°-i400° F., and cooling 

 suddenly made it a crumbling mass of lime. 



The stone of these quarries Is known as "Trenton gray 

 limestone." It has been employed extensively In Utica, 



