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is on a switch which comes up the valley of a small branch of 

 Clear creek from the new belt line. This quarry was opened in 

 1901, and has been in continuous operation ever since. The 

 quarry is one of the largest and most up-to-date in the district. 

 The stone from this quarry is a medium coarse stone of very uni- 

 form grain and is A^ery free from seams in the bed. At present, 

 work is in progress on two beds along the southern edge of the 

 quarry opening. There are 5 floors or about 50 feet of good stone. 

 Three floors are buff, one mixed, and the lower floor is blue stone. 

 The stripping consists of about 6 feet of sandy loam and about 

 5 feet of the overlying limestone. The surface of the Oolite is 

 comparatively smooth, and but little waste in the c^uarry results 

 from mud seams, especialh' on the east floor. Of the two. the 

 west floor is much more seamed, owing to the fact that the over- 

 lying limestone is not present and the upper surface of the Oolite 

 has been much affected by weathering. 



In the v\'est opening the stone is not as thick as in the east 

 opening, for the upper floor is almost all waste and much of the 

 second floor is lost owing to mud seams. The seams all run 

 east and west. The compam^ is about to install a new electrical 

 equipment for the entire plant. 



The quarry of the Indiana Cooperative Quarry Company 

 known as the Red Hog ciuarry is located southwest of the Xational 

 ciuarry on the opposite side of the depression and across the 

 Bloomington-Bedford pike. The quarry was not in operation 

 in August, 1914. The stone at this point is under a rather heavy 

 overburden and is cut by a considerable number of seams. The 

 stone taken out is fine grained and of uniform texture, and is 

 overlaid by about 8 feet of dirt and about 10 feet of waste stone. 



The Clear Creek mill of the Mc^Millan Stone Company built 

 in June, 1904, is located about 2 miles southwest of the Clear 

 Creek station and about one-half mile northeast of Victor. This 

 compan}' has interests at Peerless and also in Bedford. The 

 mill is one of the most up-to-date in this section. There are 

 several abandoned quarries near this mill, but the grade of the 

 stone is not high and the amount of waste stone encoiuitered in 

 the quarries made it more profitable to secure the stone elsewhere. 

 The old Crown ciuarry is just south of the mill, and the Eagle 

 and the Clear Creek quarries are east of the mill. 



The quarry known as Quarry Xo. 18. located one-half mile 

 southeast of the Victor postoffice. was first opened by the Johnson 

 and ]\lathews Stone Company of Bloomington in 1897. It was so 



