QUARRIES IN YORK COUNTY. 181 
Transportation involves a cartage of one-fourth mile to railroad, 
but the present contract for dam on Saco River involves a cartage 
of 3 miles. 
The product is " w random stone." The quarry is now producing 
stone for the foundation of a pulp mill (Bar Mills) and for a dam 
on the Saco River. 
The Day quarry is in the town of Kennebunkport, 3 miles south- 
west of Biddeford. Operator, A. H. Day, Biddeford. 
The granite (specimen 131, a) is a biotite-muscovite granite of 
medium-gray shade with conspicuous black mica and of. coarse even- 
grained texture, with feldspars up to an inch across and biotite scales 
up to one- fifth inch. It consists, in descending order of abundance, 
of a gray (very slightly buff -pinkish in places) potash feldspar (mi- 
crocline and orthoclase), very smoky quartz, milk-white soda-lime 
feldspar (oligoclase), black mica (biotite), with a little white mica 
(muscovite). The contrasts in this granite are marked. 
The quarry, opened about 1899, is 50 feet square and 25 to 30 feet 
deep. The stripping consists of 3 feet of gravel. 
Rock structure : The sheets, from 4 to 11 feet thick, dip 10° E. ; 
joints, striking north and dipping 60° W., form a heading on the 
west, and recur at intervals of 30 feet or more. One striking north- 
west dips 80° SW.; another strikes N. 80° E., and still another 
strikes northeast and dips 40° SE. This is a bowlder quarry. The 
rift is horizontal and grain N. 70°-75° W., but they are not marked. 
Sap, from 2 to 3 inches thick, occurs along the joints. 
The plant consists of 6 derricks and 1 hoisting engine. 
Transportation involves cartage of 1 mile to a railroad siding. 
The product is used for bridge work, and some of it was used in the 
Kittery, Me., dry dock. In 1905 the quarry was doing bridge work 
for the Boston and Maine Railroad. 
The Boss quarry is in the town of Kennebunkport, 3J miles south- 
west of Biddeford. Operator, Ellis & Buswell; office at Woburn, 
'Mass. 
The granite (specimen 132, a) is a biotite granite of general light- 
gray shade with translucent milky-white feldspars, dark, smoky 
quartz and black mica, and of coarse, even-grained texture with feld- 
spars up to 1 inch across and biotite scales under one-fifth inch. It is 
similar to that of the Richer and Gowen Emmons quarries, described 
on pages 175, 176. 
The quarry, opened in 1887, is about 200 feet square and 35 feet in 
depth. Its drainage requires pumping after each rain and for a 
month in the spring before starting up. The stripping consists of 2 
to 3 feet of loam. 
Rock structure : This is a typical " bowlder quarry," with irregu- 
lar joints, shown in fi>. 39. The sheets, from 14 to 22 feet thick, 
