QUARRIES IN OXFORD COUNTY, 
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The plant consists of 2 hand derricks. 
Transportation is by cartage two-fifths mile to Maine Central 
Railroad. 
The product is used for buildings ana for bases to monuments, and 
finds a market at widely scattered points in the West and South. 
Specimen building: The granite part of the Conway, N. H., public 
library. In 1905 the quarry was supplying bases to private monu- 
ments. 
The Hodsdon quarry is in the town of Fryeburg, at the northeast 
foot of Starks Hill, a little over 1J miles south of Fryeburg village. 
Operator, W. I. Hodsdon, Brownfield, Me. 
The granite (specimen 125, a) is a muscovite-biotite granite of gen- 
eral medium-gray shade and medium even-grained texture, identical 
with that of the Fagie Gray granite quarry described on page 144. 
FlG. 31. — Structure at Eagle Gray quarry, at Fryeburg. The black bands are basic dikes, 
and those with a pattern are pegmatite. 
The quarry, opened in 1905, measures 120 by 30 feet and averages 
8 feet in depth. The stripping is less than 2 feet. 
Rock structure: The sheets, from 1 to 4 feet thick, clip 10° NE. 
but taper, " growing on." There are no joints but 3 vertical basic 
Bikes, from 16 to 24 inches wide, with courses of N. 30° W., N. 30° E., 
land N. 70° E. The rift is horizontal and the grain is vertical, 
pending north-south. Sap is confined to a space of several feet 
bn each side of the dikes. Knots are infrequent. 
The plant consists of 3 derricks. 
Transportation involves a cartage of about one-half mile to Maine 
Central Railroad. 
The product is used for bases of monuments, curbing, and paving 
blocks, and finds a market mostly within the State. 
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