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seen as at the Falls. These quarries furnish no material fit 
for ornamental dressing, but an abundance of the best lime and 
rough stone. 
MANITOWOC. 
There are several quarries in this vicinity, yielding lime of 
excellent quality. A very valuable quarry has been opened 
on the river, about four miles west of the city, by S. W. Ba¬ 
ker, Esq. This affords a light grey or white limestone, occa¬ 
sionally clouded green, of moderate denstiy, smooth, vertical 
fracture, presenting innumerable crystalline facets when freshly 
broken, and susceptible of a good polish. It belongs to the 
class of crystalline limestones, and furnishes a marble of fair 
^quality for ordinary uses. It appears massive, but a dim bed¬ 
ding is visible, parallel to which run delicate zigzag seams of 
some dark mineral, probably iron or manganese. It is trav¬ 
ersed vertically by joints which separate it into huge angular 
blocks. It weathers smoothly and preserves sharp angles 
wherever it is exposed. The outcrop occurs in the valley of 
the river, about 4J miles from its mouth. The stone is well 
situated for quarrying, and could be carried on flat boats most 
of the way to the lake. The amount of this stone is very large, 
and I can see no reason why it should not come into extensive 
use. If sawed and polished, it would make a front in no re¬ 
spect inferior to the Chicago marble, so much used in that city. 
To make such a quarry available, works of considerable ex¬ 
pense are required, and some outlay in experimenting is almost 
indispensible. Mr. Baker has commenced the erection of suit¬ 
able machinery for sawing and polishing, only a few rods dis¬ 
tant from the quarry. Unless some peculiarity of the stone, 
not now observed, is developed, it cannot fail to be a rich source 
of profit to its owner. This stone seems to be in the same 
geological position as Crocker’s quarry, near Ozaukee. 
KEWAUNEE. 
The demand is too limited as yet around this new city to 
require much stone. The crystalline limestone or grey marble 
