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are about 2,500 carloads of waste in a position where it could be 

 easily recovered if there were methods for its utilization. 



The plant of the Consolidated Stone Company is directly 

 west of the Crescent quarry and the floors of these two companies 

 join along the southern end of their workings. The Consolidated 

 is one of the largest quarries operating in Monroe county, and the 

 owners are the successors to the Norton Stone Company and the 



A comer in the quarry of the Crescent Stone Company at Hunter Valley, showing 

 the method of waste disposal in use there. 



old Morton C. Hunter Stone Company, the latter having been 

 the first company to operate in the valley. The quarry working 

 is carried on in 3 quarry floors. The south floor, which is the 

 site of the old Norton quarry, is covered by about 8 feet of a 

 brown, sandy clay which can be removed by hydraulic stripping. 

 Below this layer about 10 feet of stone is lost on account of 



