﻿THE 
  MINING 
  AND 
  QUARRY 
  INDUSTRY 
  I908 
  

  

  75 
  

  

  Dark 
  Marble 
  Co. 
  has 
  been 
  purchased 
  by 
  Mr 
  Newton 
  Aldrich 
  and 
  

   will 
  be 
  enlarged, 
  while 
  the 
  other 
  large 
  companies 
  contemplate 
  

   increasing 
  their 
  output. 
  

  

  At 
  Plattsburg, 
  Clinton 
  co. 
  the 
  Rutland-Florence 
  Marble 
  Co. 
  

   during 
  the 
  year 
  quarried 
  a 
  large 
  amount 
  of 
  Chazy 
  limestone 
  which 
  

   was 
  sold 
  as 
  marble 
  for 
  interior 
  decorations. 
  

  

  The 
  black 
  Trenton 
  limestone 
  of 
  Glens 
  Falls 
  was 
  also 
  quarried 
  

   by 
  one 
  firm, 
  Finch, 
  Pruyn 
  & 
  Co. 
  and 
  sold 
  in 
  rough 
  state 
  for 
  

  

  building 
  stone. 
  

  

  Production 
  of 
  marble 
  

  

  VARIETY 
  

  

  1906 
  

  

  1907 
  

  

  1908 
  

  

  Building 
  marble 
  

  

  $337 
  365 
  

   99 
  100 
  

   24 
  450 
  

  

  $1 
  408 
  190 
  

  

  152 
  746 
  

  

  II 
  000 
  

  

  $567 
  444 
  

  

  III 
  492 
  

  

  13 
  921 
  

  

  Monumental 
  

  

  Other 
  kinds 
  

  

  

  Total 
  

  

  $460 
  915 
  

  

  $1 
  571 
  936 
  

  

  $692 
  857 
  

  

  

  Sandstone 
  

  

  Sandstone 
  is 
  more 
  widely 
  distributed 
  over 
  the 
  State 
  than 
  any 
  

   other 
  stone. 
  Many 
  large 
  areas 
  underlain 
  by 
  good 
  sandstones, 
  how- 
  

   ever, 
  are 
  not 
  worked 
  at 
  present, 
  because 
  of 
  the 
  abundant 
  supply 
  of 
  

   better 
  stone 
  which 
  can 
  be 
  cheaply 
  obtained 
  from 
  the 
  more 
  exten- 
  

   sively 
  developed 
  areas. 
  In 
  western 
  New 
  York 
  to 
  the 
  south 
  of 
  

   Lake 
  Ontario 
  an 
  extensive 
  quarrying 
  industry 
  is 
  carried 
  on 
  in 
  the 
  

   Medina 
  sandstone, 
  the 
  operations 
  being 
  confined 
  mainly 
  to 
  Orleans 
  

   county. 
  This 
  stone 
  is 
  a 
  medium 
  grained, 
  usually 
  red 
  stone, 
  although 
  

   some 
  white 
  stone 
  has 
  been 
  extracted. 
  It 
  has 
  been 
  used 
  in 
  a 
  number 
  

   of 
  important 
  buildings 
  and 
  forms 
  a 
  beautiful 
  and 
  durable 
  stone. 
  It 
  

   has 
  also 
  a 
  wide 
  use 
  in 
  street 
  work 
  as 
  paving 
  blocks 
  and 
  curbing. 
  

   Quarries 
  in 
  the 
  Medina 
  formation 
  have 
  also 
  been 
  worked 
  in 
  Niag- 
  

   ara, 
  Monroe, 
  Wayne 
  and 
  Oswego 
  counties. 
  In 
  the 
  northern 
  Adi- 
  

   rondack 
  region, 
  in 
  Jefferson, 
  St 
  Lawrence 
  and 
  Franklin 
  counties, 
  

   a 
  large 
  amount 
  of 
  sandstone 
  of 
  Potsdam 
  age 
  has 
  been 
  quarried 
  

   both 
  as 
  building 
  stone 
  and 
  as 
  flagging. 
  The 
  stone 
  varies 
  from 
  pink 
  

   to 
  gray 
  and 
  from 
  a 
  firm 
  hard 
  quartzite 
  to 
  a 
  friable 
  sandstone. 
  The 
  

   main 
  production 
  at 
  present 
  comes 
  from 
  the 
  vicinity 
  of 
  Burke 
  in 
  

   Franklin 
  county 
  and 
  consists 
  chiefly 
  of 
  flagging, 
  which 
  is 
  shipped 
  

   to 
  Montreal 
  and 
  other 
  Canadian 
  cities. 
  

  

  