DESCRIPTION OF SANDSTONE QUARRIES 



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In the towns of Middletown and Roxbury, Delaware county, 

 a reddish sandstone is found of about the same density and 

 strength as the bluestone of Ulster county. Very little of it is 

 quarried. It is sent to Rondout via the Ulster and Delaware 

 railroad. Experiments on bluestone from West Hurley have 

 given the following results: Density, 2.721; crushing st ength, 

 22.45 pounds per square inch. At Rondout Hewitt Boice has 

 extensive stone yards and a mill. Sweeney Bros, and Julius 

 Osterhoudt have yards and mills at Wilbur. 



The bluestone territory has been extensively opened in Sullivan 

 county and to a smaller extent in Delaware county and in the town 

 of Deerpark, Orange county. There are quarries along the lines 

 of the Port Jervis and Monticello, Erie and New York, Ontario 

 and Western railroads in these counties. Along the Port Jervis 

 and Monticello railroad there are quarries at Rose Point, Para- 

 dise and Oakland, town of Deerpark, and at Hartwood and Gil- 

 mans, town of Forestburg, Sullivan county. They are all small 

 and their output is sold to dealers in Port Jervis who ship it east 

 via the Erie. Terbell & Ridgeway, who have a stone yard at 

 Port Jervis, handle most of this stone. 



In the valley of the Delaware river, along the line of the Erie 

 railroad, there are quarries in New York State from Deerpark, 

 Orange county, to the town of Sanford, Broome county. In the 

 t wn of Deerpark there are small quarries at Mill Rift, which 

 sell their output to Louis E. Bliss, New York. At Stairway, 

 Lumberland township, Sullivan county, there are large quarries 

 owned by F. A. Kilgour, which are at present idle, but will be 

 reopened. At Pond Eddy, in the same township, A. H. Wood- 

 ward operates several quarries and buys the output of others. 

 The quarries on the New York side of the Delaware are not as 

 large or as numerous as those on the Pennsylvania side. The 

 best stone here is more uncertain and of a more pockety 

 nature than that of Ulster county, and the stone is harder. All 

 the stone in the Delaware valley from Deerpark to Callicoon, 

 Delaware township, is quite bard. Beyond this point it becomes 

 gradually softer and is more easily worked. Most of the stone 

 on the New York side at Pond Eddy is shipped to Woodward's 

 mills at Newark, N. J., via the Delaware and Hudson canal and 

 the Hudson river, although the freight rates .by this route are 



