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Indiana. — Very light, almost white, and bluish-grey sandstones, of 

 fine, sharp, and even grain, occur in French Lick Township, Orange 

 County, and in a few localities in Warren and Perry Counties. A part 

 of the Orange County stone is used for whetstones, and is known com- 

 mercially under the name of " Hiudostan oil-stone." 



Georgia. — No sandstones are at present quarried in this State, but it 

 is stated that "the Chattooga Mountains contain a considerable va- 

 riety and of various shades of colors, among which are white, gray, 

 buff, brown, and red. Some of th^se exist in massive compact beds, 

 while others have a jointed structure that make them easily quarried. 

 The thickness of the entire sandstone series is about 800 feet. Build- 

 ing stone of this character may be had also on Lookout and. Sand 

 Mountains, in the Cohutta range."* We have as yet seen none of the 

 above. 



Iowa. — This State produces but little of value as building material 

 in the way of sandstones. Coarse, dark brown stones of Carboniferous 

 and Cretaceous ages occur in Muscatine and Cass Counties and have 

 been quarried to some extent, but their qualities are not such as to 

 cause them to be used for other than rough work in the near vicinity. 



Kansas. — Good sandstones are stated by Professor Broadhead to 

 occur in several of the counties in the southwestern part of this State, 

 though, so far as we have observed, few if any of these are of such a 

 quality as to acquire other than a local market. A fine, deep blue, gray 

 laminated stone is found at Parsons, and a brownish one at Oswego, in 

 Labette County, also a brownstone at Pawnee, Crawford County, and 

 others of various hues in Bourbon, Neosho, Montgomery, Wilson, 

 Woodson, Greene, and Elk Counties. 



Kentucky. — The sandstones of this State, so far as shown by the col- 

 lections, are all of a light color, fine-grained and rather soft. Light 

 buff and pinkish colors are fouud in Simpson, Grayson, Todd, John- 

 son and Breckenridge Counties, some of which are of a beautiful 

 mellow tint. Light- gray stones of apparent good quality, and closely 

 resembling the Berea of Ohio, occur at Blue Lick Mountain, Living- 

 ston in Kockcastle County, and in Pineville, Bell County. We are 

 unable to give further information regarding them. 



Maryland. — Sandstone of such a nature as to be in demand for other 

 than local uses is quarried in but a single locality in this State. In 

 Montgomery County, near the mouth of Seneca Creek, about 30 miles 

 northwest from the city of Washington, there occurs a considerable de- 

 posit of Triassic sandstone which for many years has been quarried 

 more or less to furnish material for the Washington market. The stone 

 is as a rule light reddish-brown in color, of fine and even texture, and 

 well adapted for all manner of building and ornamental work. The 

 writer has examined this stone, both in the quarry and in various 

 buildings, and does not hesitate to pronounce it one of the best of our 



* Commonwealth of Georgia, p. 136. 

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