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falo and Rochester. The stone Is fine-grained and has a 

 greenish-gray shade of color. 



Jamestown, Chautauqua County. — There are six small 

 quarries in the eastern part of the town, near the lake out- 

 let. Bedded with the quarry stone there is much shale, and 

 consequently a great deal of waste material has to be re- 

 moved in quarrying. The bottom beds, from twelve to 

 twenty inches thick, furnish stone for cut work. The stone 

 of the upper strata is used for rubble work. The Jamestown 

 stone is olive-green in color, fine-grained, soft and breaks 

 with a conchoidal fracture. It has had an extensive use at 

 Chautauqua and in Jamestown, both for foundations and re- 

 taining walls and for house trimmings. 



Other localities in Chautauqua county are in Panama; in 

 the town of Clymer; in Westfield, near Lake Erie ; and at 

 Laona, in Pomfret. The quarries at these places are too 

 small and comparatively unimportant for general descrip- 

 tion. 



Triassic or New Red Sandstone 



Nyack, Rockland County. — Two quarries, located on the 

 shore of the river, are worked more or less steadily ; one by 

 Daniel T. Smith, the other by Nelson Puff. The stone of 

 these quarries is worked into lintels, sills and platforms. 

 The product is mainly for the local market. 



Haverstraw, Rockland County. — The sandstone quarries 

 at Haverstraw are worked only at long intervals, and then 

 for common building stone which is used In the place. 



Formerly these Nyack and Haverstraw quarries were 

 worked on a large scale, and stone for building was shipped 

 thence to New York and cities along the Hudson valley. 



The house still standing near the Smith quarry, which 

 was built in 1768, shows the durable nature of the stone. 

 The Cornelius house in Nyack is another example. 



