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Gamp (Smiths Landing}. It employs six to eight men in the 

 quarry the year round. 



Dederick & Frieze, Kiskatom. Quarry is J mile north of Smith 

 & Yeager and on the same ledge. Bed of stone is 7 feet thick, 

 with 8 to 10 feet of top, 3 feet being rock, the balance clay. 

 Stone is of medium grain and very " reedy." The reeds are 

 very likely to open on exposure. Bed dips to the south and 

 west. Two to three men are employed the year round. Product 

 is mostly edge stone, which is hauled to Maiden and sold to 

 the Ulster bluestone co. 



Near this quarry are a number of abandoned openings which 

 have not been worked in several years 



James Sterrett, Saxton. Quarry is situated J mile west of 

 High Falls. Bed of stone is 13 feet thick, with 35 to 40 feet of 

 alternating beds of rock and shale top. 22 feet above the top 

 of the stone bed a lift of rather coarse grained gray sandstone 

 occurs 2 feet thick, some of which is sold. This stratum 

 occurs 2 miles south of this quarry in the Michigan quarries. 

 Stone is fine grained and a good blue in color. There are no 

 open seams in the bed. The stone is split along the reeds. The 

 quarry is equipped with horse power derrick and siphon. No 

 head-offs appear, but the side seams are very regular. Product 

 is mostly edge stone, which is sold to the Ulster bluestone co. 

 at Maiden. Three or four men employed during the summer 

 months. 



Harvey Myers, Ashbury, and Owen Devery, Quarryville. Both 

 work small quarries occasionally in the vicinity of High Falls. 



Farther south at Quarryville is one of the most productive 

 points of the whole Ulster county district. 



Abraham Miller & Co., Quarryville. The first quarry south of 

 Sterrett's. Quarry is situated 1 mile north of Quarryville. The 

 bed of stone is 6 feet thick, with top of 20 to 25 feet consisting of 

 rock and black shale. The stone is fine grained, of good 

 blue color and quite reedy. As the lifts vary from 5" to 6", 

 there is no danger of the stone " reeding " open. Few heads are 

 present. The strata worked dip to the south and west. The 



