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Lauer & Haganian bring sand to the city, by way of the Erie 

 canal, from BushnelPs Basin, a distance of 12 miles to the east. 

 Last year 3500 yards were used by them in making concrete 

 foundations for streets. 



Within the county are many other gravel and sand pits but 

 most of them are of comparatively little importance, being 

 merely worked for the local supply, and most of them for road 

 metal. There are however a few quite extensively developed. 

 One of these is the gravel-pit of the Buffalo, Rochester & Pitts- 

 burg Railroad, at Scottsville. There are some veins of sand 

 which, when used for masonry purposes, has to be screened. 

 The bulk of the material is used for ballast on the railroad, and 

 most of the remainder for bridge construction. The amount 

 used during the past year was 40,201 yards of gravel and 2200 

 yards of sand. A large sandpit 1 mile west of Despatch village, 

 on the main line of the New York Central Railroad, is used by 

 this road for engine sand. No record of exact amounts was 

 kept. 



Throughout the county the regulation price for sand and 

 gravel is 20 cents a yard, though in winter, at some of the pits 

 about Rochester, owing to the difficulty of keeping them open, 

 the price is 30 cents. 



The pits of less importance are included in the following 

 directory to the sand and gravel pits of Monroe county. 



Sand and gravel pits of Monrce county 



1 Charles Brush estate. Sand; Hamlin; postoffice Morton. 



2 Schwartz, F. Gravel; Hamlin; postoffice East Hamlin. 



3 Burret, Charles. Gravel and sand; Clarkson; postoffice Clarkson. 



4 Crary, Mrs Mary C. Mixture for roads; Clarkson; postoffice Clarkson. 



5 Smith, George I*. Sand and gravel; Sweden; postoffice Brockport. 



6 Terry, Frank. Sand and gravel on Henry Root place; Sweden; postoffice 



Brockport. 



7 Schroeder, John. Gravel and sand; Brighton; postoffice Brighton. 



8 Corporation pit of Brockport. Sand and gravel; Sweden. 



9 Hinnan, A. Both sand and gravel; Sweden; postoffice Brockport. 



10 Shafer, C. E. Worked by John Meeskill; sand and gravel; Sweden; post- 



office Brockport. 



11 Crippen, Dean. Gravel; Sweden; postoffice Brockport. 



12 DeFrees, Charles. Gravel from lake shore; Parma; postoffice Hilton. 



13 Ferguson, Ervy. Gravel from lake shore; Parma; postoffice Hilton. 



