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belt, where it has been so extensively opened, as in the towns of 

 Saugerties, Kingston and Hurley, is of the Hamilton period. 



"Beginning at the northeast, there are small quarries at 

 Reidsville and Dormansville, seven miles west of the Hudson 

 river, and in Albany connty. They have furnished a great deal 

 of stone for flagging .in the city of Albany. The stone of these 

 quarries is gray in color and rather coarser- grained than the 

 typical bluestone of the Hudson river quarries. 



" In Greene county there are several small quarries near Leeds, 

 which are worked mainly for the Catskill market. In the vicinity 

 of Cairo stone is quarried at several places, and shipped by rail. 

 On the line of the Stony Clove and Catskill Mountain railroad, 

 and along the Kaaterskill railroad, quarries have been opened, 

 from the mountain houses southwest to Phoenicia." 



Ulster county is the largest produce]' of bluestone, and its 

 quarry districts are the following : Quarryville, West Saugerties 

 and High Woods, in the town of Saugerties; Dutch Settlement, 

 Hallihan Hill, Jockey Hill, Dutch Hill and Stony Hollow, in the 

 town of Kingston; Bristol Hill, Morgan Hill, S teeny kill and 

 West Hurley, in the town of Hurley ; Marbletown, Woodstock, 

 Brodhead's Bridge, Shokan, Boiceville, Olive, Phoenicia, Wood- 

 land Hollow, Fox Hollow, Shandaken, Pine Hill and Rochester 

 and Wawarsing quarries, in the valley of Rondout creek and its 

 tributaries. 



There is much variation in the several quarries of these localities 

 both in the nature and thickness of the overlying earth or 

 stripping, and in the number and thickness of the workable quarry 

 beds. A large number of quarries have been opened, and at 

 many places the valuable stone has been removed and the quar- 

 ries abandoned. At other localities the thickness of the overly- 

 ing earth and the long distance from transportation lines have 

 prevented their further development. The tendency of later 

 years has been to open quarries nearer the lines of railroad, and 

 to leave localities more distant, so that the number of quarries in 

 the territory adjacent to the Ulster and Delaware road has been 

 greatly increased. The aggregate output of this part of the ter- 

 ritory has not materially increased within the last few years, in 

 consequence of the abandonment of many quarries and the re- 



