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size, and smooth and true surfaces, are cut from some of the 

 thick beds. 



The paving blocks are sold principally to western cities — 

 Erie, Akron, Cleveland, Toledo, Columbus, Detroit, Chicago 

 and Milwaukee. The Brady quarry produces stone for 

 building, principally. 



These quarries are conveniently located for working, at 

 the side of canal and railroad, and are well equipped for 

 large business. 



Some examples of the Albion stone are the Presbyterian 

 church, Albion ; the Iroquois hotel. Young Men's Associa- 

 tion building and Trinity Protestant Episcopal church, in 

 Buffalo ; Guernsey building. No. 160 Broadway, New York 

 city ; steps of the new staircase, capitol in Albany. 



[For other examples, see notes on stone construction in 

 cities.] 



Medina, Orleans County. — Medina has given name to this 

 sandstone formation because of its development and the 

 characteristic fossils, which are abundant in some of the gray 

 beds, at this locality. Within a mile and a half of the rail- 

 road station there are ; north and north-east of the town, 

 Kearney & Barrett, A. M. HoUoway, Sara J. Horan, Buffalo 

 Paving Company, Noble & Lyle and C. A. Gorman owning 

 quarries. The working season is naturally from the first of 

 April to the middle of November. The rest of the year is 

 is given to stripping off the overlying earth and waste 

 rock. As compared with the stone of the quarries in the 

 Medina sandstone formation, eastward, the color is lighter 

 gray, and there is the varigated, or spotted red and white, 

 and a light-red. Generally it is harder. Oblique lamina- 

 tion in the beds is more common than at Albion or Hulber- 

 ton. Pyrite-coated seams and joint faces are seen, more in 

 the older quarries, now idle. Formerly, the light-colored, 

 gray stone was in demand, and was quarried for building ; 

 now, nearly all of the gray variety is split into paving 

 blocks, and the fashion for building calls for the red and 



