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1882, amounted to iirfo-^ o^ which Sg^io P^i" cent were of 

 sandstone.^ No recent enumeration has been made of 

 the stone buildings. The proportion of stone and brick 

 structures is probably the same as It was In 1882, as the 

 use of brick has kept pace with that of stone, so far as the 

 number of structures Is concerned. 



New York is truly cosmopolitan in the world wide range 

 whence It draws Its supplies of building materials, and in 

 the great variety which it uses. It is a market in which 

 all of the quarries of our country, and all of the more 

 Important quarry districts of the world are represented by 

 their characteristic varieties of stone. It attracts materials 

 from the old and well-developed quarries, and to It the newly 

 opened localities send their samples and solicit Its custom. 

 Its situation affords easy water transportation and low 

 freight rates, not only from foreign ports but, also, from the 

 tide-water quarry districts of New England, and many quar- 

 ries In New York and on the great lakes, which are reached 

 by the canal system of the state and the lake routes. The 

 railway lines also bring large amounts of stone from Ohio, In- 

 diana, Kentucky, Tennessee and points In other western and 

 southern states, at rates which enable the quarry owners to 

 put their stone in New York, at prices which are as low as 

 those of the nearer quarries of the state, and of New Eng- 

 land and New Jersey. The active competition of dealers 

 In stone, the large amount called for by the building Indus" 

 tries and the many lines of water and land transportation, 

 which converge In the metropolis, combine in bringing to- 

 gether a greater variety of stone and at lower rates of cost 

 than at any other place In the country. And owing to 

 these favoring influences the consumption of stone in con- 

 structive work In New York Is relatively greater than in 

 the larger cities of the state, and of the adjacent eastern 

 and middle states. Fine examples of the use of stone, 

 either in ordinary constructive or in decorative work, from 



*Julien in Tenth Census of United States, Vol. x, p. 



