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 * colspan=4 | Soil and loose rock on crest of ridge.
 * Good blue beds; one 5′ thick, but generally under a foot in thickness, weathering smooth, || | 25′ || rowspan=3 |  || 66′
 * Bastard shelly limestone, as in Winfield quarry, || | 6'
 * Good plaster lime beds, all worked out to level of kilns and not well seen, reported, || | 35′
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 * Good plaster lime beds, all worked out to level of kilns and not well seen, reported, || | 35′
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After the location of these kilns the lower division beds were taken out first as low down as they could be conveniently worked and wheeled to the top of the kiln, so that the lower beds exposed at the Winfield quarry have not apparently been reached here. Several of the quarries are pretty well worked out up to the line; but Mr. Buskeart has a good strip of the lower blue limestone left yet, carrying two handsome beds at the bottom of his quarry, 5′ and 6′ thick.

The whole section, however, contains beds of good quality, and the lime burned even in a desultory and sometimes careless manner maintains the high reputation acquired by the distribution of the Winfield stone throughout the country.

About 1½ miles further west from this string of quarries, the ridge again takes prominence and the following openings have been made in order westward:

1. Widow C. Seabold, abandoned.&emsp;2. J. Bucher, two kilns.&emsp;3. M. R. Gearhart, three kilns.

These together make one large quarry, about 150′ long, from which about 15,000 bushels are burned on an average each year.

The total thickness of the beds exposed here is about 40′, carrying two massive beds 11′ thick near the bottom; but made up of rather thin beds above, The dip is about 45° S. E.

The kilns have a capacity of about 225 bushels each.

The stone is about of the same character and quality as the openings further east; but the beds are evidently above the shelly impure stratum, the two blue beds corresponding to similar strata found above the central slaty layer in the Winfield quarry.

These quarries are about 4½ miles east of New Berlin, the public road to that place being largely upon the limestone