REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR AND STATE GEOLOGIST 1902 r79 



The limestone quarries are mainly located in two regions, the 

 Frost avenue and neighboring quarries in the southwestern 

 part of the city, and The North Goodman street quarries in the 

 northeastern. The Frost avenue quarries are in the upper por- 

 tion of this formation, while those of Goodman street are in the 

 lower. Pike's quarry (1) , on Frost avenue, is probably the largest 

 excavation of its kind in the city, though not the most exten- 

 sively developed at present. The property is owned by James 

 D. Pike, of 158 Genesee street, and is worked for building stone 

 by Herman Miller, of Susse street, formerly of the Miller & 

 Jones Co., contractors. About 1000 cords of stone and 300 loads 

 of rock chips have been drawn this year. Adjoining this quarry 

 and on the corner of Frost avenue and Snyder street is located 

 that of E. R. Tanner (2) . The output for the past year, for 

 building purposes, was 1000 cords of stone and for street im- 

 provement. 400 yards of macadam and 200 yards of chips. J. B. 

 Xellis, 818 Plymouth avenue, has worked the old Nellis 

 quarry* 3 * (located on Arnett avenue off Genesee street) some 

 this year; also considerably, during the latter part of the season, 

 the old quarry on the corner of Flint street and Jefferson ave- 

 nue. About 80 cords were taken from the latter. 



The Goodman street quarries are three in number. The most 

 extensively worked is that of Foery & Kastner (4) , located at 

 the end of Central park, office, 315 Joseph avenue. The output 

 for the past year was 7000 yards of macadam and 400 cords 

 of building stone. Just north of this is the quarry of Whit- 

 more. Rauber & Vicinus {5) , office, 279 South avenue. The quarry 

 of Lauer & Hagaman (6) , the southernmost on Goodman street, 

 adjoins the above. The output from this was 583 cords for 

 building purposes, and 242 yards of macadam. The amount of 

 macadam for street repairs obtained by crushing the cobble- 

 stones and Medina blocks of old pavements on streets improved, 

 often exceeds in amount that taken from the quarries. For 

 this work, the company has a large Gates portable crusher. 



H. S. Brown, 334 Hudson avenue, has a quarry in the thin 

 basal beds of the Lockport dolomite. This quarry has been 

 worked but little this year. 



