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ing stone ; the upper beds commonly contain more or less shale. 

 They are used for various purposes including building and orna- 

 mental stone, crushed stone, lime, portland cement and flux. In the 

 Champlain valley quarries are found near Plattsburg, Larabees 

 Point and Crown Point ; in Washington county at Smiths Basin ; 

 in Warren county at Glens Falls where there are extensive quarries 

 that supply material for building purposes, portland cement and 

 lime. The well-known black marble from Glens Falls is taken from 

 the Trenton. Numerous quarries have been opened in Herkimer, 

 Oneida, Lewis and Jefferson counties. The output of the last 

 named county is specially important, including limestone for build- 

 ing and road construction and lime for manufacture of calcium 

 carbide. The principal quarries in Jefferson county are at 

 Chaumont. 



The next assemblage of limestones in the order of stratigraphic 

 occurrence includes the Clinton, Lockport and Guelph members of 

 the Niagara group. The Clinton limestone has a variable impor- 

 tance in the belt of Clinton strata that extends from Otsego county 

 a little south of the Mohawk river across the central and western 

 parts of the State on the line of Oneida lake and Rochester to 

 the Niagara river. East of Rochester the limestone is relatively 

 thin, usually shaly and split up into several layers, but on the west 

 end in Niagara county it becomes the predominant' member and has 

 a more uniform character. Large quarries have been opened 

 recently at Pekin, Niagara county, for the supply of flux to the 

 blast furnaces of the Lackawanna Steel Co. at Buffalo. The upper 

 beds of bluish gray fossiliferous limestone from 10 to 12 feet thick 

 are the purest and analyze from 90 to 95 per cent calcium carbonate. 

 The Lockport is a magnesian limestone, in places a typical dolomite, 

 and is rather siliceous in the lower part. It outcrops in a continu- 

 ous belt, several miles wide, from Niagara Falls east to Onondaga 

 county and then with diminishing width across Madison county. 

 The upper layers are rather heavy and yield material suitable for 

 building purposes, road metal and lime. There are quarries around 

 Niagara Falls, Lockport and Rochester. It is worked to some ex- 

 tent in Wayne, Onondaga and Madison counties. The Guelph, also 

 a dolomite, occupies a limited area in Monroe and Orleans counties 

 and is worked near Rochester. 



The Cayugan group includes among its members the Cobleskill, 

 Rondout and Manlius limestones, which are economically important. 

 They have furnished large quantities of material for the manu- 



