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the thickness of the stone is not shown, but about 35 feet is ex- 

 pected. The seams running east and west are badly opened since 

 there was no covering of stone to protect the Oohtic stone from 

 weathering. The north and south seams are not so well developed, 

 but one deep seam in this direction causes much waste and ex- 

 tends to a great depth, in fact below the present opened floor. 

 The stone is rather coarse in grain, but it is comparatively uni- 

 form and very few large-sized fossils are present. The indica- 

 tions are that most of the stone will be buff. 



The water supply of the mill and quarry is very small. The 

 water is pumped thru about a mile and three-fourths of 2i-inch 

 pipe from Clear Creek, and the pump has to be run night and day 

 to supply the workings in both this quarry and the Mathers 

 quarry which adjoins it. The company is equipped for hydraulic 

 stripping, but the water supply is inadequate for the pupose. 

 A floor has been stripped in the southern part of the opening a ad 

 a derrick erected, but no work was going on on this floor in 1914. 



The mill of this company is located just north of the quarry 

 opening on a switch of the Monon railroad. 



The quarry and mill of the Mathers Stone Company are 

 located just east of the quarry of the Chicago and Bloomington 

 Stone Company, and the two openings join each other. The 

 opening at this point was made in 1895, but has not been continu- 

 ously in operation since that time. The company is at present 

 working on 2 floors, one at the extreme end of the old opening, 

 and the other along the east side of the old floors. The land 

 at this point slopes gently to the north and the drainage is in that 

 direction; but in spite of this fact the north and south seams are 

 but slightly opened, while those extending east and west are 

 very greatly weathered The south opening is nearly worked out. 

 The stone is taken off in 4 floors, giving about 40 feet of good 

 stone. The lower course is blue and the second floor is mixed 

 while the top floors are all buff stone. The stone is of good quality, 

 but contains quite a large number of fossils, which make the grain 

 appear rather uneven. The color of the buff stone is very light, 

 but it is of coarse grain. The stripping at this point consists of 

 about 5 feet of residual clay and about 15 feet of waste stone, the 

 top layer of which is Mitchell. Another opening northeast 

 of this floor along the east side of the depression in which the 

 quarry is located has been made and the channelers are at work 

 on the second floor, but the stone is in large part waste on account 

 of the fact that there is no protective layer of bastard stone over 



