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any but tlio roughest work. The Museum collections contain an ex- 

 tremely coarse greenish epidotic granite, with large red porphyritic 

 crystals of orthoclase, from Bench Mountain, in Cocke County, which 

 might perhaps be worked if there were a market. 



South Carolina. — Although no granites from this State are to be found 

 in our principal markets, it by no means follows that there is any de- 

 ficiency in the supply. The collection now in the Museum shows, on 

 the contrary, that excellent stones of this class occur in various local- 

 ities. 



Near Winusborough, in Fairfield County, quarries have recently been 

 opened which furnish fine-grained gray biotite granite fully equal to 

 any in the market. The quarries, as we are informed by the owner, Mr. 

 W. Woodward, cover some 70 acres of bowlders and two large ledges, 

 one 11 acres in extent and the other G. The stone works readily and 

 acquires an excellent polish. A pinkish granite also occurs in this same 

 county. Other granites in this State, of which we have seen specimens, 

 but concerning which we have but little accurate information, occur near 

 Columbia, Richland County; and in Newberry, Lexington, Edgefield, 

 and Aiken Counties. The Columbia stone is of a light-gray color, ap- 

 parently of excellent quality. It was used in the construction of the 

 State house in that city, and is stated to be very durable.* 



Texas. — Red granites, both coarse and fine, occur in Burnet County, 

 in this State, though at present neither are quarried to any extent. 

 Both varieties carry biotite as the chief accessory mineral. The coarser 

 variety corresponds closely with the coarse red granite from Platte 

 Canon, Colo. Their colors are dull and they seem better adapted for 

 rough building than for monumental work. 



Utah Territory. — A coarse, light- gray granite occurs in inexhaustible 

 quantities in Little Cottonwood Canon, not far from Salt Lake City. So 

 far the stone has been quarried only from bowlders that have been rolled 

 down the caiion, and the parent ledge remains untouched. This stone 

 has been used in the construction of the new Mormon temple at Salt 

 Lake City. 



Vermont. — This State furnishes but little in the way of granitic rocks, 

 from the fact that few of her quarries produce material not found 

 elsewhere in New England, where there are better and cheaper facilities 

 for transportation. Quarries of biotite granite of fine grain and a gray 

 color are, however, worked at Barre, Brunswick, Morgan, Ryegate, 

 and Woodbury. A very light, almost white, muscovite granite is also 

 quarried at Bethel. The most of these rocks are for local use only, 

 though that from Brunswick is said to be carried to some extent into the 

 neighboring cities in New York State. 



Wyoming. — "The only building stone which is quarried in Wyoming is 

 at Sherman, the highest point of the Northern Pacific Railroad. At this 

 point — the summit of the Black Hills — the road cuts through a heavy 

 * South Carolina, Resources, Population, etc., 1883, p. 609. 



