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Crawford county is also well supplied with building stone and with 

 limestone for quicklime. The quarries in the townships of Holmes and 

 Todd not only furnish stone for building throughout a wide circuit of 

 country, but also produce a large quantity of quicklime, which is ship- 

 ped from Nevada, in Wyandot county, by the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne 

 and Chicago Railroad. 



The following proximate statements of the annual product of these 

 quarries in quicklime were obtained from the owners in 1871 : 



Buahels. 



J. B. Christie 20,000 



Dennis Coder 4,000 



Luther M. Myers 15,750 



Mary Schnavely 4,000 



Schnavely Brothers , 6,000 



John Schnavely 20,000 



Nicholas Poole 10,000 



Perry Wilson 20,000 



The retail price on the ground is 20 cents per bushel. It is delivered 

 in quantity (wholesale) at Nevada for 18 cents. If the aggregate pro- 

 duction sells for 18 cents, the revenue amounts to about $18,000 per year. 

 All the kilns used at Oceola are of the old style, requiring to be emptied 

 entirely before second use. By this method there is a loss of wood and 

 of labor. The following tabular view shows the amount of wood required 

 per hundred bushels at some of the quarries, and the weight of the lime 

 per bushel, as nearly as can be ascertained : 



In the south-eastern part of the county the quarries in the Berea grit 

 have been wrought for about forty years, and have become celebrated 

 throughout a wide extent of country for the excellence of the building 

 stone which they afford. Stone from Berea is, on close comparison, seen 

 to be of a coarser grain and less firm than that taken from beds of the 

 same horizon in the central counties of the State. The limestone sold 

 at the quarrie*s in the western part of the county brings about a dollar 



' Reaches 70 pounds when about half slacked. 



