590 GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 
for the construction of bridge abutments and piers. It finds its principal 
markets along the line of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne, and Chicago 
railroad, from Crestline westward into northern Indiana. This quarry 
is locally more important from the lack of building stone suitable for 
heavy masonry along this portion of the railroad. Other quarries less 
favorably located are worked, some with considerable variation in 
quality, but furnishing material for local use. 
In Plymouth township, in the northwestern corner of Richland 
county, the Berea grit is quarried for the construction of foundations 
and bridge work in the vicinity of the quarries. Some flagging material 
is also obtained from the quarry of Mr. Bevier. The material developed 
in this locality is inferior in quality to the Leesville stone, and on 
exposure to the atmosphere it is more liable to suffer detrimental 
discolorations. 
| The Waverly conglomerate furnishes nearly all the stone for ordinary 
purposes of construction in the town of Mansfield. In one quarry 
about 60 feet of rock is exposed. It is considerably broken up; the 
upper 30 feet being in thin layers, and the lower 80 feet in layers from 
1 foot to 6 feet in thickness. Much of this material is beautifully 
colored in wavy bands of black, yellow, red, and gray,and would make 
a very ornamental stone if it were not so soft and easily worn by abrasion. 
It has been used to some extent for purposes of ornamentation in the 
town of Mansfield. In some of the colored material the red predomi- 
nates, and the stone is harder but less beautiful in appearance, but it 
does not exist in large quantities. In another quarry the material is less 
broken up, and is more uniform in quality, texture, and color. 
The Waverly conglomerate in this locality is a coarse-grained sand- 
stone, but rather finer than in most other localities where it is quarried. 
The light-red and gray-colored samples forwarded to the National Mu- 
seum were found to be very good and safe stones to work. ‘The dark- 
red colored specimen is rather coarse and loose in structure. 
A section of the quarry of Mr. D. W. Zent, at Belleview, exhibits 
the following arrangemert of strata: (a) 
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