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hundred car-loads of stone were shipped. The market is in 

 the cities of the eastern states. 



The lower portion of Aldrich court, 41-43 Broadway, the 

 steps, residence of Cyrus Clark, Riverside avenue and 

 Ninetieth street, New York ; steps in the terrace approaching 

 the capitol, Washington, District of Columbia ; steps, 

 platforms, and column-bases of capitol, Trenton, New 

 Jersey ; St. Lawrence hall. New Haven, Connecticut ; 

 part of state prison for insane criminals, Matteawan, New 

 York, are some of the examples of construction in which 

 the Oxford blue sandstone has been employed. 



Small quarries producing flagging-stone, mainly, are 

 opened at 



South Oxford, Chenango County- 

 Coventry, Chenango County 

 Smithville Flats, Chenango County 

 Guilford, Chenango County 

 Oneonta, Otsego County 

 Cooperstown, Otsego County 

 They are worked at irregular times as demand calls for 

 stone. 



Trumansburgh, Tompkins County.— In the vicinity of Tru- 

 mansburgh there are twenty or more quarries which pro- 

 duce four hundred thousand square feet of flagging annually. 

 Two of them only do a little business in building stone, the 

 quarries of F. C. Biggs and of the Flagstone and Building 

 Stone Company. That of the latter is one mile east of the 

 village and less than a mile from Cayuga lake. The grayish- 

 bluestone of the lower course of the quarry is fine-grained, 

 and is cut into lintels, sills and curbing at the company's 

 works at Cayuga, or shipped to their yards at Mott Haven, 

 New York. 



The Biggs quarry is on the Taughannock creek about 

 two miles west of the lake and near the Geneva, Ithaca and 

 Sayre railroad line. The stone here is known as the blue 

 sandstone and resembles in appearance the Hudson river 



