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is blue to gray and rather fine-grained. It has been used in 

 bridge building on the line of the Delaware, Lackawanna 

 and Western railroad, and in several business blocks in 

 Waverly and vicinity. 



Elmiraj Chemung County. — Four quarries have been 

 opened in the sandstone in the western face of the hill which 

 here bounds the valley. The stone is fine-grained, and has a 

 gray and greenish-gray color. It is all sold in the rough and 

 used in Elmira for common wall work, and some of it for 

 curbing. The average cost is about $i a perch in the city. 



Corning, Steuben County. — There are four quarries in the 

 sandstone at Corning, in the southern outskirts of the town. 

 The stone of these quarries is generally fine-grained, and of 

 a grayish color. It is hard, durable, and does not absorb 

 much moisture, but in consequence of flinty-like seams in it, 

 it cannot be dressed or fine-tooled economically. The 

 natural-face blocks are often weathered dirty yellow or 

 brown and hence the need of careful selection of stone. 

 For ordinary wall work and foundations, it answers well. 

 The Corning stone has been used in Elmira, in the Con- 

 gregational church and in the State Reformatory buildings. 

 In Corning, the old arsenal, built about thirty years ago, 

 the Roman Catholic, Protestant Episcopal and First Pres- 

 byterian church buildings are all of this stone. The best 

 example can be seen in the basement-wall of the high 

 school, and in the basement of the residence, near the pub- 

 lic school, in which work great care was taken to select large 

 stones and of uniform shade of color. 



Dansville, Livingston County.— Sandstone for building pur- 

 poses and for street work is obtained from the quarry, one 

 mile north-east of the village. The stone is bluish-gray in 

 color, fine-grained and hard, but accompanied by much 

 waste rock. 



The Chemung sandstone is opened in Steuben county at 

 Cohocton, Bath, Hornellsville, and in the town of Green 

 wood. 



