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This quarry is one of the oldest in the county. The quarries at Lees- 

 ville are about a mile north of the railroad station, and in the bluffs of 

 the Sandusky. Those of Mr. John Bippus have been constantly worked 

 for thirty or forty years. Others at Leesville are owned by John Haller 

 and John Newman. Mr. J. W. Shumaker has also recently opened a 

 quarry on his land. 



Mr. Bippus's quarry, near the highway bridge at Leesville, is on the 

 same horizon as that of Mr. James Morrow. The exposure is somewhat 

 less, and as follows, in descending order : 



Section at John Bippus's Quarry, Leesville. 



No. 1. Thin beds, or flags, 1 to 3 inches 10 feet. 



" 2. Heavy-bedded sandstone 16 " 



Slight dip east. 



Mr. Haller's has about twelve feet exposed. The upper six feet are in 

 beds of six to eight inches. The rest is like the upper part of Bippus's, 

 and on the same horizon. 



Mr. Newman's quarry is in stone about the same as Bippus's, without 

 exposing the heavy beds. 



In Polk township (S. E. J section 2) Mr. Thomas Park's quarry is 

 located just at the point where the river, the two railroads, and the high- 

 way all cross each other. The exposed section here is as foUows : 



Section at Thomas Park's Quakhy, in Folk Township. 



No. 1. Hard-pan Drift 12 to 15 feet. 



" 2. Thin, loose beds of sandstone 15 " 



" 3. Thick beds of sandstone 12 " 



" 4. Blue shale, seen 10 inches. 



The quarry of Mr. Asa Hosford is situated N. W. J section 1, in Polk 

 township, and shows about twenty-five feet of sandstone on the same 

 horizon as Mr. Park's. Below the sandstone Mr. Park encounters, ac- 

 cording to his description, a loose, sandy bed, of a few feet in thickness 

 and blue color, before reaching the Bedford shale. 



None of the quarries in the Berea in Crawford county show a conglom- 

 eratic or even a coarse-grained composition. The stone is rather a homo- 

 geneous and moderately fine-grained sandstone. Its thickness seems to 

 be no more than thirty-five or forty feet. It graduates upward into a 

 shaly and thin-bedded sandstone, that probably belongs to the Cuyahoga 

 division of the Waverly. 



The Bedford Shale.— At Elyria, and further east, as in Cuyahoga coun- 

 ty, the Berea grit is underlain by a cupper-colored and bluish shale, the 

 colors of which vary in their positions. At Elyria the copper-colored or 

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