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rubble-work. It is hard, dense and strong, and is not 

 dressed. It sells in the city at six dollars per cord. The 

 Williamsville quarries, ten miles north-east of the city af- 

 ford a gray limestone for cut and dimension work. On ac- 

 count of the expenses of cartage and of dressing, its use is 

 limited to trimming brick buildings, and for steps and plat 

 forms, and is being crowded out of the field, it once held, by 

 the more cheaply dressed and warmer-colored sandstones. 

 The Medina sandstone formation furnishes the greater part 

 of the building stone for cut and dimension-work in this 

 city. And the quarries at Albion, Holley, Hulberton and 

 Medina produce nearly all that is used here. The red Me- 

 dina stone is seen in the largest and most expensive struc- 

 tures, and the best architectural work, and it is used both 

 for the walls and trimmings ; and many of the large busi- 

 ness buildings are of red brick and sandstone. It is em- 

 ployed in rock-face and in fine-tooled and bush-hammered 

 blocks, for sills, caps, lintels, water-tables, string courses 

 and pediments, and for basement walls. Its red color com- 

 bines with red brick to produce a pleasing effect. On Dela- 

 ware avenue. Porter avenue and North street, and other 

 streets, it has been used extensively, in private dwellings. 



The gray or white Medina sandstone was formerly much 

 used, but it has been neglected of late, because of the gen- 

 eral demand and preference for red stone. It is seen in 

 many of the older buildings. 



The Ohio sandstones, also, have relatively declined in 

 the extent used, notwithstanding their lower cost, wherever 

 there is much carved-work required. For trimmings they 

 have had an extensive use. 



Among the newer kinds of stone which are now in the mar- 

 ket are the red sandstone from Portage, Lake Superior, the 

 Granby red sandstone and the sandstone from Neshoppen, 

 Pennsylvania. The first-named is obtainable in large blocks, 

 and is easily worked. It sells at one dollar and twenty-five 

 cents per cubic foot. 



