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Deerpark, and at Hartwood and Gilmans, town of Forestburg, Sulli- 

 van county. They are all small and their output is sold to dealers in 

 Port Jervis who ship it east, via the Erie. Terbell & Piidgeway, who 

 have a stone yard at Port Jervis, handle most of this stone. 



In the valley of the Delaware river along the line of the Erie rail- 

 road there are quarries in JSTew York State from Deerpark, Orange 

 county, to the town of Sanford, Broome county. In the town of Deer- 

 park there are small quarries at Mill Rift, which sell their output to 

 Louis E. Bliss, New York. At Stairway, Lumberland township, Sulli- 

 van county, there are large quarries owned by F. A. Kilgour, which are 

 at present idle, but will be reopened. At Pond Eddy, in the same 

 township, A. H. Woodward operates several quarries and buys the 

 output of others. The quarries on the New York side of tlie Delaware 

 are not as large or as numerous as those on the Pennsylvania side. 

 The beds of stone here are more uncertain and of a more pockety 

 nature than those of Ulster county, and the stone is harder. All the 

 stone in the Delaware valley from Deerpark to Callicoon, Delaware 

 township, is quite hard. Beyond this point it becomes gradually softer 

 and is more easily worked. Most of the stone on the New York side 

 at Pond Eddy is shipped to Woodward's mills at Newark, N. J., via 

 the Delaware and Hudson canal and the Hudson river, although the 

 freight rates by this route are one dollar and sixty-five cents per ton 

 as against one dollar and fifteen cents per ton via Erie railroad. 



Other places in the town of Lumberland at which bluestone is quar- 

 ried are in the district opposite Parker's Glen, Penn., and Barryville. 

 At the first named of these places the total output is probably less than 

 $100 per month. The stone quarried is suitable only for flagstone. 

 Prices paid for the stone by dealers are from forty-two to forty-five 

 cents per cubic foot or three and one-half to three and three-fourths 

 cents per inch. Very little stone is quarried at Barryville. That dis- 

 trict is nearly exhausted. 



In the town of Tusten quarrying is carried on extensively opposite 

 Mast Hope, Penn., and at Tusten. Many small quarries are worked 

 at these places besides a nuniber of larger ones employing ten to fif- 

 teen men operated by J. Q. A. Connor & Son, of Mast Hope, and C. 

 W. Martin, of Middletown, N. Y. The stone is quite hard, but not 

 uniformly so, and of several shades of blue ; but hardness and color 

 are quite uniform in the s^me quarry. The thickness of lifts varies 

 from one to eighteen or twenty inches. At Mast Hope a reddish 

 stone is quarried, but only true bluestone is found on the New York 

 side of the river at this point. At Narrowsburg, in the same township, 

 there a number of quarries. , Jeremiah Partridge works three quarries 

 at tliis point. Two of them are within one-fourth of a mile and the 

 third within three- fourths of a mile of the stone docks at Narrowsburg. 

 The stone in all of them is of good blue color and readily worked. 

 The lifts in the farther quarry are heavier and the stone somewhat 

 harder. The owner intends putting in steam drills in this quarry. In 

 Cochecton township there are some small quarries at Oochecton village, 

 but only a few of them are being worked. 



In Delaware township there are quarries at Oallicoon and at Rock 



