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The Town Hall and the St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church 

 are beautiful examples of the stone which is found here. The 

 quarry which is now worked for the local supply is on the 

 Oswegatchie River, two miles south of the town. 



Norwood, St. Lawrence County. — A blue limestone is quar- 

 ried one and a half miles from Norwood on the O. & L. C. R. R. line. 

 It can be seen in the Presbyterian churches at Malone, Wadding- 

 ton and Canton; the Roman Catholic church at Hogansburg, 

 and in the county buildings at Canton. 



Schoharie, Schoharie County. — Limestones of the Lower 

 Helderberg and Water-lime groups crop out in the valley east of 

 the village of Schoharie, and afford excellent building stone. 

 The black, tentaculite limestone is very compact and takes a high 

 polish. The use thus far is for the town only. 



The Reformed Dutch Church and Revolutionary Stone Fort in 

 the lower Schoharie valley, built in 1766, shows how well the 

 limestone resists the weather. 



Howe's Cave, Schoharie County. — Formerly a large amount 

 of building stone was quarried here in the bluff above the 

 hydraulic limestone beds. The latter only are now worked. 



Cobleskill, Schoharie County. — William Reilly has two 

 quarries near this place, one a half mile northwest of the village 

 and the other about two miles to the northeast. Both are in the 

 Upper Helderberg limestone. 



Two principal kinds of stone are taken out — a hard bluestone 

 and a gray, sub-crystalline variety, which is cut and dressed for 

 dimension work. A specimen of the latter was examined and 

 found to contain 53.86 per cent, of lime, or 96.18 per cent, of 

 carbonate of lime, and 2.26 per cent, of matter insoluble in dilute 

 hydrochloric acid. Its specific gravity was 2.713, equivalent to a 

 weight of 169 pounds to the cubic foot. The absorption percent- 

 age was . 109. Unaffected apparently by alternate freezing and 

 thawing, it was calcined at a high heat (1200°-1400° F.). 



The stone of this quarry has a home market ; it is shipped to 

 Binghamton, Oneonta, Cooperstown, Albany and other places on 



