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pacity about 400 cubic feet of air per minute), 3 large steam drills, 
and 1 small one, 14 pneumatic plug drills, 6 sur facers, 23 pneumatic 
hand tools, and 2 steam pumps (5 inch and one-half inch). 
Transportation is effected by cartage 1,300 feet (and 120 feet down) 
from quarry to mill, then by cars 19 miles to wharf at Rockland. 
The distance from quarry to tidewater at Waldoboro is only 1J miles, 
but the water there is only 11 feet deep at high tide. 
The product is used for buildings and monuments, but not for 
polished work. The small sheets and waste are used for paving and 
mad ballast. About 250,000 paving blocks are shipped annually, 
mostly to Philadelphia. The chief markets for this stone are New 
York and Philadelphia. Specimen buildings: The Buffalo Savings 
Bank, the armory, boat house, and cadets' quarters at the United 
States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. ; the Crockett monument at 
Fig. SO. — General structure at Waldoboro quarry. 
Acorn Cemetery, Rockland, Me. Contracts in 1005: The Chemical 
National Bank in New York; " platforms " for sidewalk around 
pchwab Building, Seventy-fourth street and Riverside Drive, New 
York. In September, 1905, two fluted columns, 25 feet long, were 
peing cut for a block in New York, and some fine carving on key- 
tones, etc., for one of the buildings at the United States Naval 
cademy. 
Jewetfs black- granite quarry is in the town of Whitefield, H 
niles southeast of Whitefield village (Kings Mills). Operator, E. C. 
lewett, Whitefield, Me. 
The rock (specimen 113, a) is a quartz diorite of very dark gray 
>hade with a bluish tinge, and of fine to medium even-grained texture 
imd flow structure, with feldspars up to one-fourth inch in dimm- 
er. It consists, in descending order of abundance, of bluish milk- 
