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In the three quarries on Goodman street, the stone for 

 macadam is crushed in stationary Gates crushers; the drilling 

 is done by steam; and the blasting with dynamite. In the 

 other quarries of the city, with the exception of Pike's, where 

 steam is occasionally used, drilling is done by hand and blasting 

 with black powder. 



No dressed stone is sold from these quarries. Building stone 

 sells at $3.50 to $4 a cord; macadam at $1 a yard when sifted, 

 when not, at 75 cents to 80 cents; the sif tings at 90 cents a yard. 

 In the smaller quarries rock chips, or quarry rubbish, sell at 20 

 cents a load. 



A few miles west of Rochester are several small quarries in 

 the Lockport dolomite. One of these owned by Henry Trabold 

 and Vogt Bros. (7) , iy 2 miles northeast of Coldwater station 

 in the town of Gates, has been worked by Chambers & Casey, 

 contractors, of Rochester. From it 1100 yards of stone were 

 used for macadamizing the Buffalo road. From another (8) just 

 west of Gates Center, on the site of an old limekiln near school- 

 house no. G, Gates, on the north side of the Buffalo road, 800 

 yards of macadam were used by the above mentioned firm for 

 the same purpose. A quarry (9) on a small creek y 2 mile south 

 of Gates Center is owned by Edward Marsh. It is worked 

 irregularly. 



East of Rochester, in the town of Pittsford, Whitmore, 

 Rauber & Vicinus of Rochester have taken out 5254 yards of 

 Lockport dolomite from the bed of West branch of Allen creek, 

 on the lands of J. Christ (10) and C. Teare< u) , for macadamizing 

 Monroe avenue. 



The Medina sandstone quarries are located west of the Gene- 

 see, near the Ridge road. In the town of Greece, % of a mile 

 north of the Ridge road and just west of the Charlotte branch 

 of the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Railroad, is a quarry 

 belonging to Bishop McQuaid (12) . The rock is taken from a 

 v massive tier about 45 feet from the top of the formation. Dur- 

 ing the past year a considerable amount has been removed for 

 monument foundations and for private building purposes. A 

 quarry adjoining this is owned by J. A. Rainesford (13) . It is 



