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carried on at this point during the greater part of the summer, 

 and a large amount of the upper stone was removed. The grade 

 of the stone was not yevy good, and the heavy cost of the stripping 

 caused the company to abandon the quarry, at least for the 

 present. At this point the Oolitic stone comes to the surface 

 without a covering of the JMitchell, and, as commonly happens 

 in such cases, the seams are weathered to such a depth that the 

 amount of waste stone is very great. 



Many other small openings in the city or close by have been 

 made in the past, but none of them have proved a paying venture. 

 The small openings have furnished much stone in the aggregate, 

 but no one opening has put out any large quantity of liuilding 

 material. 



Clear Creek and Sanders District. Under this head are 

 included the quarries and mills around Sanders as well as all the 

 scattering mills and quarries in ]\Ionroe county south of Bloom- 

 ington. This group includes 8 quarries and 10 mills, as follows: 

 Chicago and Bloomington Stone Company, with 1 quarry and 

 1 mill; ]\Iathers Stone Company, with 1 quarry and 1 mill; 

 Empire Stone Company, with 1 quarrj^ and 1 mill; Reed Stone 

 Company, with 1 quarry and 1 mill; National Stone Company, 

 1 quarry and 2 mills; Indiana Cooperative Quarries Company, 

 with 1 quarry; Woolery and Son, with 1 mill; Monarch Stone 

 Company, with 1 mill; ]Mc]\Iillan and Sons Stone Company, 

 with 1 mill; John Torphy's quarry. No. 18. 



The first quarr}' in the Sanders district was opened by the 

 company known as the Oolitic Stone Company, in 1888. and 

 was located a little more than a half-mile west of Sanders (com- 

 monh^ known as Sanders or Saunders Station). The quarry is a 

 part of the present openings of the Reed Stone Company. It 

 was in this quarry that the stone for the Auditorium in Chicago 

 was quarried. The next company to open a quarry in this part 

 of the district was the Monroe County Oolitic Stone Company, 

 organized in 1889, which opened the Adams quarry and erected 

 a mill just west of the Reed quarry. These openings were fol- 

 lowed in 1891 by the Bedford Quarry Company east of the Reed 

 quarr}^, the opening now being part of the Reed quarry. In 

 1892 the Empire Stone Company followed with a quarry north 

 of the Reed quarry. The opening of this large productive area 

 was a great boon to the industrj^ and marked a new era in the 

 business. Probably no district covers a wider productive area 

 than the one along Clear Creek and about Sanders, since the 



