DESCRIPTION OF SANDSTONE QUARK1E8 



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Chemung Group. 

 Waverly, Tioga County. — Two quarries are opened and 

 worked at intervals in the vicinity of this place. The stone 

 is blue to gray and rather fine-grained. It has been used in 

 bridge building on the line 01 the Delaware, Lackawanna and 

 Western railroad, and in several business blocks in Waverly and 

 vicinity. 



Elmira, Chemung County. — Four quarries have been opened 

 in the sandstone in the western face of the hill which here 

 bounds the valley. The stone is fine grained, and has a gray 

 and greenish-gray color. It is all sold in the rough and used in 

 Elmira for common wall work, and some of it for curbing. The 

 average cost is about $1 a perch in the city. 



Corning, Steuben County. — There are four quarries in the 

 sandstone at Corning, in the southern outskirts of the town. 

 The stone of these quarries is generally fine-grained, and of a 

 grayish color. It is hard, durable, and does not absorb much 

 moisture, but in consequence of flint-like seams in it, it can not 

 be dressed or fine-tooled economically. The natural-face blocks 

 are often weathered dirty yellow or brown, and hence the need 

 of careful selection of stone. For ordinary wall work and 

 foundations it answers well. The Corning stone has been used 

 in Elmira, in the Congregational church and in the State Kefor- 

 matory buildings. In Corning, the old arsenal, built about thirty 

 years ago, the Roman Catholic, Protestant Episcopal and First 

 Presbyterian Church buildings are all of this stone. The best 

 example can be seen in the basement-wall of the high school, 

 and in the basement of the residence, near the public school, in 

 which work great care was taken to select large stones and of 

 uniform shade of color. 



Dansville, Livingston County. — Sandstone for building pur- 

 poses and for street work is obtained from the quarry, one mile 

 northeast of the village. The stone is bluish-gray in color, fine- 

 grained and hard, but accompanied by much waste rock. 



The Chemung sandstone is opened in Steuben county at Co- 

 hocton, Bath, Hornellsville, and in the town of Greenwood. 



At the Cohocton quarry the output is all cut into flagging, 

 which is used in the adjacent towns. 



