QUARRIES IN HANCOCK COUNTY. 89 
The product of these quarries is adapted to building purposes. 
In 1905, pending a reorganization of the company or an enlargement 
of its capital, the quarries had not yet resumed operations. 
The Westcott quarry is at Bucks Harbor, in the town of Brooks- 
ville, about three-fourths mile southeast of South Brooksville vil- 
lage. Owners, Maine Coast Granite Company, South Brooksville. 
The granite of this quarry is said to be like that of the more eastern 
quarry of the Bucks Harbor Granite Company, which is very near it, 
and to have been used for pillars in the bridge over the Mississippi 
at St. Louis. 
The Maine Lake Ire Company^ quarry lies 500 feet north of the 
company's dock. It is operated by Foster and Sargent, of Sargent- 
ville, for paving blocks, but is now idle. 
The granite (specimen -18, a) is a biotite granite of medium to 
light gray shade and coarse even-grained texture, with slightly 
bluish milk-white feldspars up to an inch in length. It consists of 
these minerals, in descending order of abundance: A potash feld- 
spar (microcline and orthoclase), rather dark smoky quartz, soda- 
lime feldspar (oligoclase) , black mica (biotite), and accessory zircon. 
The oligoclase is considerably altered to a white mica. The con- 
trasts in this granite are more marked than in that of specimen 47, a 
(p. 88) , for the quartz is darker. It was found to be hard in working. 
The quarry measures about ^00 by 30 feet and 10 feet in depth. The 
sheets are up to 5 feet thick and lie flat or dip 10° N. Vertical joints 
with headings strike N. 67° E. and N. 07° W. The rift is vertical, and 
its course is N. 00° AY. 
There is a track 500 feet long to the dock. 
HerricUs quarries, in the town of Brooksville, consisting of sev- 
eral small openings, about one-third mile northwest of " Herrick " 
post-office, worked by E. H. Herrick for paving blocks, curbing and 
rough stone, give employment to three men. The stone (specimen 
44, a) is a biotite granite of medium-gray color and medium even- 
grained texture. 
Sargent's quarry, in the town of Brooksville, is a small opening, 
less than one-fourth mile northeast of Herrick's, belonging to Henry 
W. Sargent, but not worked in 1905. The stone is a gray even- 
grained coarse-textured granite, resembling that of the Maine Lake 
Ice Company's quarry. In contact with it- is also one of slightly 
finer texture, but with poor contrasts (specimen 45, a). 
The Brown quarry is in the town of Dedham, 1^ miles east of 
Holden station (East Holden post-office) on the Maine Central Rail- 
road, on the northeast side of a hill reaching an altitude of 840 feet 
above sea level and having a northwest and southeast axis. Operator, 
David Brown, East Holden. 
