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Crawford county is also well supplied with building stone and with 
limestone for quicklime. The quarries in the townships of Holmes and 
Todd not only furnish stone for building throughout a wide circuit of 
country, but also produce a large quantity of quicklime, which is ship- 
ped from Nevada, in Wyandot county, by the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne 
and Chicago Railroad. 
The following proximate statements of the annual product of these 
quarries in quicklime were obtained from the owners in 1871: 
Bushels. 
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HE isle Ta VIRION Stererrstivs/satbacsciuecscecselereessuivyccucisvie ousosvessivedeserenersernsse 15,750 
INitaravaSCIMIMAN C livemee cca ses eee teksseast hs sldcedsesca abs teadecesscscuscaseler toccoatocess 4,000 
Claman e hymn HINT SMart as caks sues colts cea ce cdiuicuelesiseusences FN CORSON COC BOONE 6,000 
Solara S CLINE liygrenet ee tees a che iss.cstocclavsassconedenwelborssecsclecs see snserosesisectee ses 20,000 
INC IMON ASHES OO Commentaries hoc oee sh aece Sous mala shoes als Gaede saswarbatlnee Ou delcaigawecchesamesicewes 10,000 
LTT Ay AAV VAlll SOREN eee OM. cle cnccu ca soa area eh enn eusboeeare cd oustit casocuesensnoneine 20,000 
The retail price on the ground is 20 cents per bushel. It is delivered 
in quantity (wholesale) at Nevada for 18-cents. If the aggregate pro- 
duction sells for 18 cents, the revenue amounts to about $18,000 per year. 
All the kilns used at Oceola are of the old style, requiring to be emptied 
entirely before second use. By this method there is a loss of wood and 
of labor. The following tabular view shows the amount of wood required 
per hundred bushels at some of the quarries, and the weight of the ime 
per bushel, as nearly as can be ascertained : 
. Hours of | Cords per | Pays for | Weight 
Neate MO nTanEN Om burning. |100 bushels.| wood. | per bu. 
Perry Wilson ...... Upper Corniferous ... 60 Nearly 3 ... 1.75 *65 
John Schnavely...| Lower Corniferous ... 60 Att le visiecrs 1.75 65 
Luther M. Myers..| Lower Corniferous ... 60 if Uezo00 LTD Me ies 
In the south-eastern part of the county the quarries in the Berea grit 
have been wrought for about forty years, and have become celebrated 
throughout a wide extent of country for the excellence of the building 
stone which they afford. Stone from Berea is, on close comparison, seen 
to be of a coarser grain and less firm than that taken from beds of the 
same horizon in the central counties of the State. The limestone sold 
at the quarries in the western part of the county brings about a dollar 
* Reaches 70 pounds when about half slacked. 
