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The greater part of the stone quarried here is shipped to New 

 York cit}^ where it is worked up into house trimmings. Some 

 of it is sent to Rochester, where it is cut into dimension stone at 

 the Pitkin yard. The Aldrich Court building, Nos. 41 and 43 

 Broadway, New York, has Portage stone in the trimmings, in 

 the first and second stories. Some of this stone was used in the 

 United States Government building, at Binghamton. 



Warsaw, Wyoming County. — There are two sandstone 

 quarries near this place. The Jameson & Warsaw Manufacturing 

 Company's quarry is two miles west of Bock Glen, on the New 

 York, Lake Erie and Western railroad. It was opened many 

 years ago, but was idle in 1888-9. Some of the stone in the City 

 Hall, Bochester, was taken from this quarry. The Warsaw Blue- 

 Stone Company's quarry is located one-half mile from Bock Glen 

 station, and south of Warsaw ; a side track runs from the quarry 

 to the main line of the New York, Lake Erie and Western rail- 

 road. The Warsaw bluestone is very fine-grained, harder than 

 the Ohio sandstone, and retains its color on exposure. It has 

 been used for more than thirty years, in Warsaw and vicinity, for 

 monumental bases and buildings. 



A specimen from the company's quarry showed a specific 

 gravity of 2.681, equivalent to a weight of 167 pounds per cubic 

 foot. It contains 3.22 per cent, of ferric oxide and .23 per cent, 

 of ferrous oxide. The absorption test gave as a result 2.b9 per 

 cent.; the freezing and thawing tests produced slight checking. 

 At the high temperature (1200°-1400°F.) there was a slight vit- 

 rification, somewhat of checking, and the color was changed to 

 dull-red. The quarrying plant has been largely increased, and 

 the machinery for sawing and dressing the stone has been set up. 

 The output during the year 1889 was largely in excess of that of 

 any previous year. The principal use of this stone is for house 

 trimmings. The markets are New York c^'ty, Syracuse, Elmira, 

 Corning, Binghamton, Philadelphia and Washington. The 

 Alpine, corner of Sixth avenue and Thirty-third street, New 

 York city, the United States Government building, Binghamton 

 and the Colgate Library building, Hamilton College, are more 

 prominent examples of the Warsaw bluestone. 



