QUARRIES IN WASHINGTON COUNTY. 
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described on page 43. Knots occur up to 12 by 8 inches, but rarely. 
There are geodes and short veins, containing quartz, epidote, and 
calcite. (See p. 50.) The sheet surfaces are in places coated with 
epidote from the alteration of feldspar. Prof. John E. Wolff has 
referred to the Jonesboro " red granite " and some of its pecul- 
iarities. 
The plant consists of 4 derricks, 2 hoisting engines, 2 steam drills, 
and 1 steam pump. 
Transportation involves cartage of a mile to the wharf on English- 
mans Bay. The stone is shipped to Vinalhaven for finishing. 
The quarry was not in operation in 1905 for want of demand for 
" red granite." 
The product was used for buildings. Specimen buildings made of 
granite from this quarry: Custom-house and post-office at Buffalo, 
Fig. 37. — General plan and structure at the Bodwell quarry, Jonesboro. 
N. Y. ; Methodist Book Concern building and Havemeyer residence, 
Fifth avenue and Sixty-sixth street, New York; custom-house and 
post-office at Fall River, Mass.; town buildings at Peabody, Mass.; 
Western Savings Bank building, Philadelphia. 
The Booth Brothers Jonesboro quarry^ in the town of Jonesboro, 
is 1J miles east of Jonesboro village. Operator, Booth Brothers & 
Hurricane Isle Granite Company ; office, 207 Broadway, New York ; 
Maine office, Rockland, Me. 
The granite (specimen 85, b) is a biotite granite of general pinkish- 
gray color and coarse, inclining to medium, even-grained texture, 
with sparsely disseminated biotite up to one-twentieth inch in diam- 
eter. It consists, in descending order of abundance, of a pinkish 
potash feldspar (orthoclase), a little less pink than that of specimen 
"Tenth Census, vol. 10, 1888, p. 116. 
