BUILDING STONE. 
20$ 
which arc from six to eight inches, furnish cut stone of excel¬ 
lent quality. This stone is very hard, and sometimes takes a 
good polish, presenting a beautifully clouded surface. The 
supply of stone is practically inexhaustible. Quarries may be 
opened for nearly two miles along the river east of the town, 
within a short distance of the railroad track. At Pewaukee 
about eight miles, the same stone is quarried. It is rather 
softer, in layers from two to eight inches thick, and contains 
no flints. It is more fractured by cleavage planes and irregu¬ 
lar lines of separation. If the quarry is opened deeper, the 
same succession of layers as at Waukesha will probably be 
found. This quarry is on the railroad. Rough stone fit for 
cutting are sold on the track at $4 per cord, flags at $8 per 
cord. 
In the town of Lisbon, Section 35, four miles north of the 
last, is a very fine quarry of the same rock, owned by William 
Graves, Esq. Here a thicker stone is obtained than at either 
of the two last, the layers being from four inches to one foot 
in thickness. The face of the quarry is about eight feet. The 
upper layer furnishing good flag-stone, and the lower heavier 
bedded stone fit for building. The latter are very fine grained 
and hard, polishing with a beautiful mottled surface, long sil- 
icified stems of eucrinites, with a few orthoceratites and scat¬ 
tered flints occur on the surface of some layers. Rough sills 
and caps are delivered at the railroad, two miles distant, at 
fifteen cents per foot; dressed at from thirty to forty cents 
per foot. In the town of Genesee, about eight miles we3t of 
Waukesha, another fine quarry of the same rock has been 
extensively worked, known as the Pirmingtcn quarry, now 
owned by William Johnson. 
The strata are very regular, from three to twelve inches 
thick, and free from flints. It dips gently a little north of east, 
and has a face of twenty-five feet above water. It is one and 
a half miles distant from the Railroad depot. The absence of 
water, quality and accessibility of this quarry, balance the 
disadvantages of distance to the Railroad track. On Sec. 20, 
Genesee, Mr. Kendricks’, the flag layers come to the surface,. 
