66 G 5 . REPORT OF PROGRESS. I. C. WHITE. 



By carefully selecting the rock Mr. Schenck's kiln has 

 turned out a fair farming lime, most of it slacking to a line 

 powder, although pieces refuse to slack, and there is some 

 slag. 



The effect of a liberal use of it on the soil is reported to 

 be greater than that of barn-yard manure. As similar rich 

 parts of the outcrop ought to be discoverable in other parts 

 of the region, and as loose bowlders from its innumerable 

 lines of outcrop lie scattered all over Wayne county, and 

 the eastern part of Susquehanna county, the subject de- 

 serves the close attention of farmers. 



The solubility of the rock appears from the blackish brown 

 appearance of its weathered surface ; hence the bowlders 

 are called nigger-heads ; and are from 2' to 10' in diameter ; 

 a proof of the massive solidity of the stratum. 



The more silicious portions of the stratum are extremely 

 hard, as the drillers discovered in cutting through it on the 

 Jefferson Branch railroad line. 



Its black outcrop can be traced from the roadside near 

 Cadjaw pond (1 mile S. W. from Honesdale) northward 

 along the Lackawaxen and its tributary streams over the 

 highland nearly to the New York State line ; — southward 

 from Cherry Ridge to the south line of the county ; and 

 from the Elk mountains, around which it runs in a black 

 line, S' to 10' thick, 600' to 700' below their summit, north- 

 ward along the highlands nearly to Starucca.* 



Cherry Ridge red-shale (7), 100' to 110' thick ; — persist- 

 ently underlying the limestone throughout the region ; often 

 sub-divided by a middle 15' to 20' gray, current-bedded sand- 

 stone, and sometimes including two or three additional thin- 

 ner sandstones. 



The Honesdale Upper Middle and Lower Sandstone 

 group is well marked throughout Eastern Susquehanna and 



* In the second part of this report, on the geology of the separate townships 

 the reader will find described the local exhibitions of this rock, which is prop- 

 ably referred to as the Catskill limestone in the New York State reports of 

 1844. 



