THE MINING AND QUARRY INDUSTRY IQI2 63 
$133,730, or an average of $6.30 a thousand. In the preceding 
year the value of the outturn was $92,064, an average of approx- 
imately $6 a thousand. 
The active manufactures included the following: Buffalo Sand- 
stone Brick Co., with a plant at Lancaster; Dyett Sand-Lime Brick 
Co., Port Jefferson; Glens Falls Granite Brick Co., Glens Falls; 
Paragon Plaster Co., Syracuse; and Rochester Composite Brick 
Co., with plant at Brighton. The Sandstone Brick Co.’s plant at 
Schenectady was inactive, but will probably resume operations dur- 
ing the current season. 
S LONE 
The quarrying of stone and its preparation for the varied require- 
ments of building, engineering construction, etc., holds a prominent 
place in the industrial activity of the State, and the value of the 
annual contribution ranks second only to that of clay among min- 
eral materials. No other mineral industry includes so many in- 
dividual, enterprises or is so widely represented in the different 
sections. The resources are abundant and varied, comprehending 
all the principal varieties known to the trade. The greater number 
of quarries, however, are opened in the limestones and sandstones 
and supply material chiefly for engineering work, highway improve- 
ment and such purposes which do not entail any considerable 
amount of elaboration previous to shipment. In the development 
of the building, monumental and ornamental branches the local in- 
dustry has not attained the relative importance that it deserves by 
.reason of the natural wealth of materials adapted to those uses 
and the advantages for marketing; herein lies, it would appear, the 
principal field for future enterprise. 
The statistics of production which have been collected from year 
to year show that the industry in general remains practically station- 
ary; in fact lately it has taken a downward trend, falling below 
the average level of earlier years. This has been due in part to 
the recent business reaction that has affected practically all in- 
dustries and in part undoubtedly to the gaining favor of cement and 
concrete for certain construction purposes. The latter has mani- 
fested itself particularly in the loss of trade among the bluestone 
quarries which supply flagstone to New York and other eastern 
cities. This branch of the industry has shown a marked decline 
in the last few years. 
The total value of the stone quarried in 1912 was $5,718,994, as 
compared with a reported value of $5,560,355 in 1911. This in- 
dicated a gain of $158,639 or about 3 per cent for the year, against 
