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the bedding planes and is particularly adapted for flagstones, 

 curbing and house trimmings and other purposes for which a 

 smooth surface is desirable. It lends itself readily to mill treat- 

 ment. More than one half of the annual output is sold in the 

 form of flag and curbstone and most of the remainder as building 

 material, including both rough and dressed. 



The bluestone from this region finds its largest market in the 

 cities along the Atlantic seaboard. The product from the Hudson 

 river district is transported by barges to New York, Philadelphia, 

 Boston and intervening points. The output of Delaware, Sullivan 

 and Broome counties goes in part to New York, Philadelphia and 

 vicinity and in part to the interior cities of the State. It is handled 

 mainly by the Erie and the Ontario & Western railroads. The 

 other quarries depend mostly on local markets for the sale of their 

 output. 



Production and trade in 1904 



The total value of the sandstone quarried in New York last year 

 was $1,896,697. This output was distributed among 31 counties 

 with an aggregate of over 400 producers. Classified as to uses the 

 total was distributed as follows: building stone, rough and dressed, 

 $637,607; curbing and flagging, $902,027; paving blocks, $293,252; 

 crushed stone, $27,583 ; rubble, $14,736; all other purposes, $21,492. 

 The crushed stone amounted approximately to 34,948 cubic yards 

 of which 13,400 yards, valued at $10,665, was f° r road material 

 and 20,548 yards, valued at $16,918, for concrete, railroad ballast, 

 etc. It has not been possible to separate the building stone accord- 

 ing to the amount sold rough and dressed or to report the flagging 

 and curbing separately, owing to the fact that many of the quarry- 

 men keep no detailed account of their operations. 



The following table shows the value of the production of sand- 

 stone in 1904 distributed among the leading districts of the State. 

 It also indicates the relative proportion of bluestone to the other 

 sandstones that were quarried. 



