MORROW COUNTY. 269 
MATERIAL RESOURCES. 
Quicklime, Building Stone, Brick.—The county 1s entirely destitute of 
stone for making lime. The quarries in the Corniferous limestone at 
Delhi, in Delaware county, have furnished most of the quicklime used in 
the county. Since the construction of the chartered roads, the operators 
of which are allowed to collect toll of travelers, many consumers have 
been diverted from Delaware county to lime-kilns in Marion, to which 
access from Morrow county is still free. The county is well supplied 
with building stone of the best quality. The openings in the Berea 
erit at Iberia, Mt. Gilead, and near Cardington are widely known, and 
supply a great extent of territory with stone of an excellent quality. It 
has already been remarked that the grain of the Berea grit becomes 
finer in the central parts of the State, while at the same time the heavy- 
bedded portion becomes much. reduced. This is noticeable in Morrow 
county, where it is considerably used for purposes for which it would not 
be well adapted in the northern portion of the State. There is no way 
of ascertaining the annual product of these quarries, owing to the fre- 
quent change of ownership and the lack of records of sales. The prices 
at Iberia, given by Mr. Brown, are as follows. They would not vary 
much from those at Mt. Gilead and Cardington, although Mr. Brown has 
unusual natural facilities for working his quarry : 
Small thin stone for common walls and foundations sells for $1.00 per 
perch of 25 cubic feet; spalls, 40 to 50 cents per wagon load; flagging, 
8 cents per square foot; stone, four to six inches thick, $1.50 to $2.00 
per perch; best heavy blue, even and fine-grained stone, for bases to 
monuments, 10 to 40 cents per cubic foot. 
Gravel and sand from the Drift are abundant in the eastern portion of 
the county. It is not usual to meet with these materials in the Drift in 
the shale and slate area. For brick, tile and common red pottery, the 
clays of the Drift, when sufficiently free from small stones, are well adapt- 
ed. Yet there are not many manufacturing establishments of this kind 
in the county; only three were met with in the survey of the county. 
This probably is due to the abundant supply of good building stone and 
the prevalence of a heavy forest in the settlement of the county. The 
material used by Messrs. Miller and Smith, at Mt. Gilead, is fine, entirely 
free from gravel, and somewhat indistinctly assorted, though not arranged 
in Jayers like that at Fremont, in Sandusky county. The bank presents 
a massive section of fifteen feet, appearing somewhat like the “ Bluff for- 
mation” of the Missouri river, though less arenaceous. It passes below 
into clean, gray quicksand. It makes a very fine brick, of even texture 
and perfect outline, the angles and corners being well filled. Near 
