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Watkins Glen, Schuyler County.— Sandstone of the Portage 

 group is here opened and worked by the Northern Central 

 Railroad Company, for its construction on lines north and 

 south. 



Penn Van, Yates County.— Sandstone for foundation work 

 is quarried near Head street, and on the east side of the 

 lake, three miles north of the village. 



Portage, Livingston County.— The Portage Blue Stone 

 Company's quarry is on the west side of the Genesee river, 

 two miles south of Portageville and three miles from Port- 

 age station, on the New York, Lake Erie and Western 

 railroad. The Buffalo, New York and Pennsylvania rail- 

 road line is a few rods east of the quarry. The quarry beds 

 have a total thickness of twenty-five feet. The best stone 

 is olive-green in color, fine-grained, homogeneous in texture, 

 and soft enough to dress well and to be easily cut. It is 

 said to harden on exposure to the weather. A representa- 

 tive specimen from this quarry was found to have a specific 

 gravity of 2.695 and equivalent to a weight of 168 pounds 

 per cubic foot. The absorption test indicated 2.97 per cent 

 of water absorbed ; treated with dilute solution of sulphuric 

 acid the loss amounted to 0.42 per cent ; freezing and thaw- 

 ing tests produced slight scaling. In the test, at a tempera- 

 ture of 1200^-1400^ F., the color changed to dull red. 

 There were no checks, and the strength of the specimen 

 was but little impaired 



The greater part of the stone quarried here is shipped to 

 New York city, where it is worked up into house trim- 

 mings. Some of it is sent to Rochester, where it is cut 

 into dimension stone at the Pitkin yard. The Aldrich 

 Court building, Nos. 41 and 43 Broadway, New York, has 

 Portage stone in the trimmings, in the first and second 

 stories. Some of this stone was used in the United States 

 Government building, at Binghamton. 



Warsaw, Wyoming County.— There are two sandstone 

 quarries near this place. The Jameson & Warsaw Manu- 



