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However, despite its large quarries and large force of men at 

 work, the Solvay Co. finds it necessary to purchase stone from 

 outside parties to supply its needs. A. E. Alvord at Manlius in 

 the town of DeWitt is at present quarrying and shipping 300 

 tons of the Onondaga limestone a day to Solvay. The stone is 

 quarried on the hill above the village of Manlius and hauled in 

 carts to the railway at the village, where it is loaded on the rail- 

 way cars. 



Another source of supply for large quantities of stone for the 

 Solvay works is I. E. Britton's quarry, 2 miles south of Syra- 

 cuse, on the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad. A con- 

 siderable part of the stone from this large quarry goes to Solvay, 

 but part of it is shipped to the sugar factory at Binghamton for 

 use in refining the sugar. 



At Britton's quarry there is no sharp line of demarcation be- 

 tween the Onondaga limestone and the underlying Oriskany 

 sandstone, so that the lower portion of the limestone is impreg- 

 nated with sand and hence unfit for either the soda or sugar fac- 

 tory, and this portion of the stone is used this year for macadam 

 in grading the streets. 



Besides the large quarries mentioned above, there are several 

 small quarries, where the Onondaga limestone is taken out in lim- 

 ited quantities for purely local use. 



The Lower Helderberg limestone. The Lower Helderberg or Man- 

 lius limestone is quarried in large quantities in the county and 

 used locally as building stone for foundations, retaining walls etc. 

 and for macadam for roads, for quicklime, and certain layers for 

 waterlime or hydraulic cement. It is quarried for building stone 

 and for broken stone for macadam by I. E. Britton, E. L Rice, 

 Daniel Murray, Mr Wells and Thomas Coughlin in the Onondaga 

 valley south of Syracuse, by the Solvay Process Co., at Split Rock, 

 and E. B. Alvord, near Jamesville. It is quarried for waterlime by 

 I. E. Britton, Syracuse, A. E. Alvord, Manlius, Robert Dunlop, 

 . Jamesville, and John Costello, Manlius. Bangs & Gaynor at 

 Fayetteville and Thomas W. Sheedy 1 mile north of Fayetteville 

 have kilns for burning and mills for grinding waterlime, but 

 they buy the raw stone from small quarries in the vicinity. 



