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named on account of the fact that it was located on the site of 

 the eighteenth drill core taken out in this Yicinit3\ The stone 

 lies at the very top of the hill overlooking the creek and so but 

 little overlying stone has to be removed. The stone is ver}^ 

 coarse grained and all of a buff color. The mill is at present 

 owned and operated by John Torphy of Bloomington. At the 

 time of ni}^ last visit the quarry had been leased, and is operated 

 by another company. The stripping consists of about 8 feet of 

 earth and about 10 feet of Mitchell limestone. The salable 

 stone is taken off in 5 channel cuts and there are about 50 feet of 

 good stone, but the number of seams present causes a large amount 

 of the stone to be rejected as waste. The fact that the stone is 

 so far above the drainage level accounts for the seams being 

 weathered to so great an extent. 



Woolery and Son have opened a small mill on their farm 1 

 mile southwest of Clear Creek. 



The plant of the Monarch Stone Companj^ of Clear Creek 

 is located about 1| miles south of the Clear Creek station, on 

 the switch leading to the National quarr3\ The company owns 

 stone land and a mill, but at the time of my visit the}" were 

 doing no quarrj^ng. The mill is an open mill of the old type 

 and was built in 1902. 



