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cubic yards were sold during the past year. Sand is being 

 drawn from a newly opened pit just west of the above, across 

 the branch of the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Railroad. The 

 Pfaudler Vacuum Fermentation Co. owns and works it for its 

 own purposes. About 2000 loads were used in the construction 

 of its extensive plant during the past year. This completes the 

 list of pits in the Pinnacle range supplying Rochester. 



The Ridge road pits, with one exception, are all east of the 

 Genesee. This exception is the pit owned by J. A. Rainesford, and 

 located in the town of Greece on the north side of the Ridge road, 

 just west of the Lincoln Park branch of the Buffalo, Rochester & 

 Pittsburg Railroad. It furnishes a good quality of brick sand. 

 Mr Rainesford sold 300 cubic yards last year. The first pit east 

 of the Genesee is owned by Mrs George Huntingdon and Mrs F. E. 

 Elder, of Rochester, and is known as the Gilbert pit. It is 

 located just south of the Ridge road and east of Hudson street. 

 The output was 3500 yards. David Heffer has a pit just 

 west of Portland avenue and on the same side of the Ridge. 1 The 

 material of this pit is largely a clean gravel, portions of it being 

 of a size suitable for rooting gravel. For this purpose it is sold 

 in hundred pound bags at 8 cents a hundredweight. There are 

 some veins of good brick sand. In the upper portion is a regular 

 beach sand mixed with flat waterworn stones. It is more or/ 

 less limonitic. These pits are all on the landward side, and the 

 southern portions take in the finer sands of the lagoon area. 

 This completes the number of Ridge road pits supplying 

 Rochester. 



The sandpits in Brighton village between the Ridge road and 

 the Pinnacle range are worked for foundry sand. The sand is 

 very fine and somewhat limonitic. Three pits affording a lim- 

 ited supply of material have been opened on the Blossom road 

 just west of Arbutus avenue. The sand runs in thickness at 

 these pits from nothing to 2 or 3 feet, being merely a light 

 mantle deposited in a sheet of glacial water. The owners are 

 William H. Jones, Mahlon Phillips and Henry DeFloe. 



1 The output from this pit for the last year was 1000 yards. At the eastern 

 end the upper portion of the bank is a sand dune. Otto Moeschler has a pit on 

 the east side of Portland avenue and on the same side of the Ridge. 



