46 New YORK State m.uSeum 



This comip'any is said to control a larger tract of land soiifch of 

 the creek which may be worked at some future time. The product 

 is all so'ld as i inch or ^-^ inch material to cem.ent factories. 



Consolidated Wheatland Land Plaster Co. A short distance 

 west, along Allen's creek, is the property of the Consolidated 

 Wheatland Land Plaster Co. The old mine consisted of a tunnel 

 driven from the north bank of the stream ; a 6-foot layer was 

 mined and the product hauled across a bridge to the mill. Dur- 

 ing the past year, however, a shaft has been sunk a short distance 

 southeast of the mill. The shaft is 35 feet deep and by it access 

 is gained to the same 6-foot layer that is mined by the Monarch. 

 As in the Monarch, the layer consists of 4 feet of gray streaked 

 gypsum with 2 feet of " bottom " rock which is of 'lower grade. 

 The mine cars are run on a platform hoist and are hoisted to 

 the surface by a drum and engine overhead. They are then run 

 over a track directly to the mill. There is also a lower layer 6 

 feet below, which is 6 feet thick and has a i-foot white layer. In 

 the mill the rock is crushed by a jaw crusher, ground in two 4-foot 

 buhrstone mills, of Turkey Hill, Pa., stone, made by the Monroe 

 Burr Co., and is then calcined, at 380° in two solid bottom kettles. 

 The sales include crude crushed rock, land plaster, stucco and wall 

 p'laster, the latter made with patent retarder and purchased wood 

 fiber from Massachusetts. Some of the stucco is sold to the Rock 

 Board Co. who have a small plant nearby. The plant is operated 

 by steam or water power, according to conditions. 



Possible occurrences of gypsum elsewhere in Monroe county. 

 The known deposits of gypsum in the region around Garbutt and 

 Wheatland are largely controlled by the operating companies and 

 a few other companies not now operating. Prospecting for new 

 deposits must now be carried on south of the creek on the uplands. 

 The beds here lie under a heavy covering of soil and rock, and 

 would be found at a depth of from 50 to icx) feet. 



Aside from the localities described, the gypsum beds have not 

 been much explored in the county. To the north of Allen's creek, 

 pockety impure gypsum has been found at Beulah, on the Har- 

 man farm near Belcoda and on the Rogers and McVean farms i 

 mile north of Garbutt. In the Rogers farm the gypsum was found 

 at a depth of 40 feet, being overlain by 2^ feet of soil and 13 

 feet of limestone. On the McVean farm gypsum was at one time 

 extracted from the hill by a tunnel, now abandoned, and from ap- 

 pearances there is a possibility of its future utihzation. Gypsum 

 was also encountered in a well on the farm of Mr Clapp in North 



