334 Kew Yoek at the Woeld's Columbian Exposition. 



The cost of cartage is about one dollar and seventy-five cents per 100 

 square feet two inches thick. 



The quarries at West Saugerties, Bethel and Unionville are all small 

 like those in the Highwoods district. The stone is sold to dealers in 

 Maiden, Saugerties and Glasco. The stone is also carted to Maiden and 

 Saugerties from Palenville, Catskill township, Greene county. This 

 stone is of a greenish tint. From "Woodstock, also, stone is carted to 

 Maiden. Burhans & Brainard have yards and a mill at Saugerties, 

 and the Ulster Bluestone Company at Maiden. Other dealers having 

 yards but no mills are, Sweeney Bros, and James Maxwell, at Sauger- 

 ties, and "W. Porter, at Glasco. 



In the town of Kingston there are a few small quarries at Dutch 

 Settlement, Hallihan Hill and Jockey Hill, but very little stone is quar- 

 ried at these places. It is sold to dealers at Wilbur. The Ulster and 

 Delaware railroad has opened up the bluestone country in the towns of 

 Kingston, Hurley, Olive and Shandaken, Ulster county, but the active 

 quarries in this region are much less numerous than in former years. 

 The largest are near Stony Hollow, in Kingston township, and West 

 Hurley, in Hurley township. Some of the stone from these places is 

 carted to Kondout and Wilbur, and some shipped by rail to Eondout. 

 Farther up the road quarries are small and not numerous. Stone is 

 obtained from all stations along the road as far as AUaben, in Shan- 

 daken township. Some of the largest quarries are Grant's, Hewitt 

 Boice's and James O'lS'eill's, at West Hurley. James O'Neill's quarry 

 is situated about one-half mile south of the village of West Hurley, on 

 a ledge running north and south and dipping slightly west. The bed 

 averages about twelve feet, but is not uniform ; about three feet of it. 

 is poor stone unevenly distributed through the bed. The stripping 

 varies from five to fifteen feet. The quarry has been opened for about 

 300 feet, but is worked only on a small scale. The thickness of lifts 

 varies from four to twenty inches. The bottom lifts are of better 

 color than those nearer the top, whose faces are brown probably from 

 the pressure of iron. The stone is shipped by rail to Kondout. 



Beside the true bluestone there is a brownish variety quarried at 

 some localities above West Hurley. This is not a handsome stone and 

 not suitable for ornamental purposes. 



In the towns of Middletown and Koxbury, Delaware county, a red- 

 dish sandstone is found of about the same density and strength as the 

 bluestone of Ulster county. Yery little of it is quarried. It is sent to 

 Rondout via the Ulster and Delaware railroad. Experiments on bine- 

 stone from West Hurley have given the following results : Density, 

 2.721 ; crushing strength, 22.45 pounds per square inch. At Eondout 

 Hewitt Boice has extensive stone yards and a mill. Sweeney Bros, 

 and JuHus Osterhoudt have yards and mills at Wilbur. 



The bluestone territory has been extensively opened in Sullivan 

 county and to a smaller extent in Delaware county and in the town of 

 Deerpark, Orange county. There are quarries along the lines of the 

 Port Jervis and Monticello, Erie, and New York, Ontario and Western 

 railroads in these counties. Along the Port Jervis and Monticello rail- 

 road there are quarries at Eose Point, Paradise and. Oakland, town of 



