CLASSIFICATION OF MAINE GRANITES. 75 
. Black (fine to coarse) : 
Black and black speckled — 
Vinalhaven : Bodwell (p. 136). 
Addison: Pleasant River (p. 159) ; Thornberg (p. 160). 
Calais: Mingo Bailey & Co. (p. 103). 
Greenisb black — 
Belfast: Ileal quarry (p. 157). 
South Berwick : Spence & Coombs (p. 170). 
Hermon: Hermon Hill (p. 147). 
Dark gray- 
Sullivan : Pettee (p. 114). 
Baileyville: Meddybemps Lake. Hall's quarry (p. 161). 
Redbeacb : Beaver Lake quarry (p. 1<*>:', ». 
Calais: Gardner (p. 102). 
St. George: McConcbie quarry (p. 120). 
Round Pond quarry (dark) (p. 130). 
Medium gray — 
Round Pond quarry (ligbt) (p. 139). 
Wbitefield: Jewett quarry (p. 143). 
DISTRIBUTION OF GRANITE QUARRIES IN MAINE. 
The map (PL I) shows the location of the principal quarries and 
■oups of quarries and prospects, which include 133 separate open- 
gs, and also the relation of these to the rock areas which are 
scribed in the introductory chapter. Of these openings 92 are 
tarries operated in 1905. A number of unimportant paving- block 
id underpinning quarries have been overlooked or intentionally 
nitted. 
Quarries of granite proper . — With the exception of the important 
larries at Hallowell in Kennebec, North Jay in Franklin, and the 
inor ones at Fryeburg and Bryant Pond in Oxford Comity, 
>wnal in Cumberland County, Norridgewock in Somerset County, 
ak Hill and Lincolnville in Waldo County, and Dedham in Han- 
ck County, all the granite quarries of Maine are along the sea- 
»ard, either on islands or on bays or navigable rivers, or within 4 
iles of them. The inland quarries are all on railroads or within 
short distance of them. The distance to rail from a few quarries 
3 miles, from one 5 miles, but as the product of these quarries is 
;ed entirely for monumental work the cartage is a matter of less 
oment. The Maine granite industry may be said to have its center 
Penobscot and Blue Hill bays and the islands about them. A 
le drawn from Clark Island, south of Rockland, north-northeast 
Frankfort, and thence about east to Franklin, in Hancock County, 
ence south through Bar Harbor, and thence around the islands in 
southwesterly course back to Clark Island, would embrace an area 
about 1,200 square miles, which would include the bulk of the 
-anite industry. 
