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for flagging. The quarries are free from water, and may be 
worked for centuries. These beds seem to have been disturbed 
here, by some force which has thrown them into a series of 
low anticlinal ridges, having a direction a little south of east. 
From these ridges the strata dip either way, thus securing 
ready drainage of surface w’ater, and facilitating the work of 
quarrying. These flags are delivered in the city, or on the 
railroad five miles distant, at from five to six cents per foot, 
ready to lay down. About GO,000 square feet have been 
taken out of this quarry. The same strata are seen at numer¬ 
ous points east and south in Byron and Oakfield. On Section 
34, half a mile south of Phillips' place, they have been quar¬ 
ried. Some twenty-five feet of evenly stratified rock are seen 
here, the upper portion in layers from six to eight inches thick, 
and lighter colored. They w r ould make an excellent cut stone, 
and would polish well. On Section 19, Oakfield, on Daniel 
Vaughn’s place, some twenty-five feet of the same beds are 
exposed in a quarry, surmounted by twenty feet of encrinal 
and coral beds. The last is seen in a low terrace, a little back 
from the face of the bluff, and presents a perpendicular expo¬ 
sure on the north some ten feet thick. 
A quarry has been opened on Section 34, two miles south¬ 
east of Oakfield Station, by J. C. Wells. The flag stone are 
of the best quality and easily quarried. Mr. Wells states that 
he will deliver them in Milwaukee at from 8 to 9 cents per 
foot. The upper layers of this quarry are thicker and more 
crystalline, and might be profitably dressed when the demand 
for such material increases. The flag-beds are quarried south 
in Lomira, near Mayville. North, in Calumet County, some 
nine miles west of Chilton, is a quarry of the same kind, owned 
by Benjamin Coy. The Clifton quarries are in the lower bed* 
Large quantities of lime and rough stone are taken from there 
and some layers dress tolerably well, and have been used for 
caps and sills in the new College buildings at Appleton. The 
proximity of these quarries to the lake and the immense face 
exposed, renders their products very cheap. 
