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by the variation in texture; the lines are called "reeds." If the 

 stone lacks " reeds " it usually breaks with a conchoidal fracture 

 and is then said to be " scallopy." By virtue of the reeds the stone 

 may be worked up into commercial form with a minimum of labor. 

 The thicker stone is utilized for curbing, crosswalk and large plat- 

 forms; the thinner is sold as flagging or in part cut into dimxcnsion 

 form for sills, lintels, window caps and other house trimmings. 

 Dimension stone for building purposes is mainly produced in the 

 Wyoming county quarries where the stone has a softer texture and 

 can be readily shaped in the mill. 



The Hudson River bluestone district includes parts of Albany, 

 Greene and Ulster counties, where the stone quarried is brought out 

 to the river for shipment by boat. Albany, Catskill, Saugerties and 

 Kingston have been the main collecting points for the product 

 along the river; in recent years very little stone has been produced 

 in the area tributary to Albany or Catskill, so that Saugerties and 

 Kingston have become the only important centers of the business. 

 In Albany county there are quarry sites in the towns of Berne, 

 Westerlo and Coeymans, from which stone was formerly obtained. 

 They have not been productive for the last 10 years. Greene county 

 once shipped considerable stone from quarries located along the 

 edge of the Catskills and from some of the interior towns which 

 are on the line of the Ulster & Delaware Railroad. Ulster county 

 has always been the main factor in the industry of this section; 

 the principal quarry localities, many of them now abandoned, are 

 situated in Saugerties, Kingston, Hurley, Woodstock, Shandaken 

 and Olive townships. In the town of Saugerties are Quarryville 

 and West Saugerties, both important for the industry. The output 

 in Ulster county has been handled of late years by the firm of John 

 Maxwell's Sons, Saugerties, and the Hudson River Bluestone Co., 

 Kingston. 



The Delaware River district includes Sullivan, Delaware and 

 Broome counties, tributary to the Erie and Ontario & Western 

 Railroads, over which most of the product is shipped. The quarry 

 centers and shipping points include Walton, Hancock, Lordville, 

 Hale Eddy and Fish's Eddy, Delaware county; Rockland, Livings- 

 ton Manor and Long Eddy, Sullivan county; and Deposit, Broome 

 county. Some of the larger quarry operators and dealers are 

 Deposit Stone Co., Deposit; Kirkpatrick Bros., Hancock; M. L. 

 Connor & Son, Walton; Travis Stone Co., Hale Eddy; Johnston & 

 Rhodes Bluestone Co., Horton; Herbert Shaw, Middletown; Kenney 

 Bros., Long Eddy; and William J. Reynolds, Roscoe. 



