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at Saugerties and Glasco, seven or eight miles distant. The cost 

 of cartage is about $1.75 per 100 square feet two inches thick. 



The quarries at West Saugerties, Bethel and Unionville are all 

 small like those in the Highwoods district. The stone is sold to 

 dealers in Maiden, Saugerties and Glasco. The stone is also 

 carted to Maiden and Saugerties f rom Palenville, Catskill town- 

 ship, Greene county. This stone is of greenish tint. From 

 Woodstock, also, stone is carted to Maiden. Eurhans & Brainard 

 have yards and a mill at Saugerties, and the Ulster Bluestone 

 Company at Maiden. Other dealers having yards but no mill 

 are, Sweeney Bros, and James Maxwell, at Saugerties, and W. 

 Porter, at Glasco. 



In the town of Kingston there are a few small quarries at 

 Dutch Settlement, Hallihan Hill and Jockey Hill, but very little 

 stone is quarried at these places. It is sold to dealers at Wilbur. 

 The Ulster and Delaware railroad has opened up the bluestone 

 country in the towns of Kingston, Hurley, Olive and Shandaken, 

 Ulster county, but the active quarries in this region are much less 

 numerous than in former years. The largest are near Stony 

 Hollow, in Kingston township, and West Hurley, in Hurley 

 township. Some of the stone from these places is carted to 

 Rondout and Wilbur, and some shipped by rail to Rondout. 

 Farther up the road quarries are small and not numerous. Stone 

 is obtained from all stations along the road as far as Allaben, in 

 Shandaken township. Some of the largest quarries are Grant's, 

 Hewitt Boice's and James O'Neill's, at West Hurley. James 

 O'Neill's quarry is situated about one-half mile south of the 

 village of West Hurley, on a ledge running north and south and 

 dipping slightly west. The bed averages about twelve feet, but 

 it is not uniform ; about three feet of it is poor stone unevenly 

 distributed through the bed. The stripping varies from five to 

 fifteen feet. The quarry has been opened for about 300 feet, but 

 it worked only on a small scale. The thickness of lifts varies 

 from four to twenty inches. The bottom lifts are of better color 

 than those nearer the top, whose faces are brown, probably from 

 the presence of iron. The stone is shipped by rail to Rondout. 



Beside the true bluestone there is a brownish variety quarried 

 at some localities above West Hurley. This is not a handsome 

 stone and not suitable for ornamental purposes. 



