DESCRIPTIVE NOTES OF QUARRY DISTRICTS AND QUARRIES 247 



Rome, Norwich and other places, Examples of it are in the 

 U. S. Government building, in St. John's Roman Catholic 

 and in St. Paul's Lutheran churches in Utica ; in the Roman 

 Catholic churches at Little Falls and at Sandy Hill ; and in 

 the Methodist Epistopal church in Herkimer. Some of the 

 stone is cut at Utica into monumental bases. The best cut- 

 stone is gray in color and sub-crystalline in texture. 



It fades after long exposure to the atmosphere and loses 

 its freshness of surface. 



Leyden, Lewis County — Blue limestone has been quarried 

 near Talcottville, on Sugar river at Leyden station, and 

 near Port Leyden. Much stone for canal lock construction 

 has been obtained at some of the Leyden quarries. 



Lowville, Lewis County — L. H. Carter and Hiram Gowdy 

 have quarries south-east of the village, and east of the R., 

 W. & O. R. R. line. The geological horizon is the Trenton 

 and Birdseye limestones. The beds are nearly horizontal, 

 and some of them are two and three feet thick. The heavy 

 beds furnish stone for bridge abutments. 



The Lowville stone is generally much darker in shade 

 than the Prospect stone and looks well when fine-tooled. 

 The principal market is Lowville and adjoining towns. 

 Much of the stone has been used on the U. & B. R. branch 

 in bridge abutments. 



Watertown, Jefferson County. — The gray of the Trenton 

 and the heavy beds of the Black river limestones are finely 

 exposed to view in the gorge of the Black river at Water- 

 town. They are not worked. 



Three Mile Bay, Jefferson County. — At this place the lime- 

 stone is so thinly covered as to be readily opened, and stone 

 for local use is obtained in several small quarries. Barrow's 

 quarry is close to the lake shore, and half a mile from the 

 railroad station. 



The lower beds are worked into cut stone for house 

 trimming and cemetery work. Watertown and the lake 

 ports are the chief markets. 

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