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CRAWFORD COUNTY. 2A 
This quarry is one of the oldest in the county. The quarries at Lees- 
ville are about a mile north of the railroad station, and in the bluffs of 
the Sandusky. Those of Mr. John Bippus have been constantly worked 
for thirty or forty years. Others at Leesville are owned by John Haller 
and John Newman. Mr. J. W. Shumaker has also recently opened a 
quarry on his land. 
Mr. Bippus’s quarry, near the highway bridge at Leesville, is on the 
same horizon as that of Mr. James Morrow. The exposure is somewhat 
less, and as follows, in descending order : 
Section AT JoHN Brippus’s QUARRY, LEESVILLE. 
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Shght dip east. 
Mr. Haller’s has about twelve feet exposed. The upper six feet are in 
beds of six to eight inches. The rest is like the upper part of Bippus’s, 
and on the same horizon. 
Mr. Newman’s quarry is in stone about the same as Bippus’s, without 
exposing the heavy beds. 
In Polk township (8. HE. 4+ section 2) Mr. Thomas Park’s quarry is 
located just at the point where the river, the two railroads, and the high- 
way all cross each other. The exposed section here is as follows: 
SECTION AT THOMAS PARK’s QuARRY, IN PoLK TowNsHIP. 
NOP Rep EaAT ep AmMMlIatieeccesec. ccseesCcs\sresveiaceseosseceveesnescauss costes 12 to 15 feet. 
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SEMIN CaO CUStOIeSANOStOMELassssceace sass ca caeecdecoscsecsees costs Ata 
Ba ELSIE Gales SOOM er ses et ona keors elias soudeedslousede oss aee scienectGosees 10 inches. 
The quarry of Mr. Asa Hosford is situated N. W.+ section 1, in Polk 
township, and shows about twenty-five feet of sandstone on the same 
horizon as Mr. Park’s. Below the sandstone Mr. Park encounters, ac- 
cording to his description, a loose, sandy bed, of a few feet in thickness 
and blue color, before reaching the Bedford shale. 
None of the quarries in the Berea in Crawford county show a conglom- 
eratic or even a coarse-grained composition. The stone is rather a homo- 
geneous and moderately fine-grained sandstone. Its thickness seems to 
be no more than thirty-five or forty feet. It graduates upward into a 
shaly and thin-bedded sandstone, that probably belones to the Cuyahoga 
division of the Waverly. 
The Bedford Shale.—At Hlyria, anc further east, as in Cuyahoga coun- 
ty, the Berea grit is underlain by a copper-colored and bluish shale, the 
colors of which vary in their positions. At Elyria the copper-colored or 
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