MOEKOW COUNTY. 269 



MATERIAL RESOURCES. 



Quicklime, Building Stone, Brick. — The county is entirely destitute of 

 stone for making lime. The quarries in the Corniferous limestone at 

 Delhi, in Delaware county, hare furnished most of the quicklime used in 

 the county. Since the construction of the chartered roads, the O23erators 

 of which are allowed to collect toll of travelers, many consumers have 

 been diverted from Delaware county to lime-kilns in Marion, to which 

 access from Morrow county is still free. The county is well supplied 

 with building stone of the best quality. The openings in the Berea 

 grit at Iberia, Mt. Gilead, and near Cardington are widely known, and 

 supply a great extent of territory with stone of an excellent quality. It 

 has already been remarked that the grain of the Berea grit becomes 

 finer in the central parts of the State, while at the same time the heavy- 

 bedded portion becomes much reduced. This is noticeable in Morrow 

 county, where it is considerably used for purposes for which it would not 

 be well adapted in the northern portion of the State. There is no way 

 of ascertaining the annual product of these quarries, owing to the fre- 

 quent change of ownership and the lack of records of sales. The prices 

 at Iberia, given by Mr. Brown, are as follows. They would not vary 

 much from those at Mt. Gilead and Cardington, although Mr. Brown has 

 unusual natural facilities for working his quarry : 



Small thin stone for common walls and foundations sells for $1.00 per 

 perch of 25 cubic feet ; spalls, 40 to 50 cents per wagon load ; flagging, 

 8 cents per square foot ; stone, four to six inches thick, 11.50 to $2.00 

 per perch; best heavy blue, even and fine-grained stone, for bases to 

 monuments, 10 to 40 cents per cubic foot. 



Gravel and sand from the Drift are abundant in the eastern portion of 

 the county. It is not usual to meet with these materials in the Drift in 

 the shale and slate area. For brick, tile and common red pottery, the 

 clays of the Drift, when sufficiently free from small stones, are well adapt- 

 ed. Yet there are not many manufacturing establishments of this kind 

 in the county; only three were met with in the survey of the county. 

 This probably is due to the abundant supply of good building stone and 

 the prevalence of a heavy forest in the settlement of the county. The 

 material used by Messrs. Miller and Smith, at Mt. Gilead, is fine, entirely 

 free from gravel, and somewhat indistinctly assorted, though not arranged 

 in layers like that at Fremont, in Sandusky county. The bank presents 

 a massive section of fifteen feet, appearing somewhat like the " Bluff for- 

 mation" of the Missouri river, though less arenaceous. It passes below 

 into clean, gray quicksand. It makes a very fine brick, of even texture 

 and perfect outline, the angles and corners being well filled. Near 



