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164 F³. Between Meiser station and Kremer, along the north bank of Middle creek, and nearly opposite the Keller or Stuck blacksmith shop, there is another series of small quarries just at creek level, which are worked from time to time for local farm use. All of them were inactive during the summer of 1888 and display a fair section of the lower part of No. VI, 25′–30′ thick, containing some first-class stone, They are owned in order from west eastward-as follows:&emsp;1. E. Keeler;&emsp;2. A. D. & J. Kremer;&emsp;3. M. Ginney;&emsp;4. M. Dauberman;&emsp;5. W. Fryman;&emsp;6. C. Keck.

All these quarries are very narrow and develop in the aggregate about 200′ of the outcrop. A most excellent face of stone could be opened in conjunction with the beds there exposed by developing the steep hillside above them.

On the road leading north from Yoder’s store toward New Berlin, starting in the Marcellus slate, the Hamilton shales and sandstone are well exposed at the first cross-road on 40° N. W. dips succeeded northward at the next private lane to the right with Portage-Chemung rocks on a 50° dip; but neither exposure shows any very great thickness of these measures. Taking the right hand road at J. Bolig’s, Chemung rocks, largely shale, prevail to the summit of the ridge made by the Chemung-Catskill transition series with the red rocks of No. IX first showing on the north side of the summit on a dip of N. 10° W. 40°. The dip slackens to 30° at Neiman’s lane, where some olive and green bands occur with the red; and down Tuscarora creek the Catskill red shales can be seen to and beyond the Jackson township line.

A section along the eastern portion of the township shows similar characteristics. The Catskill red shale and sandstone extend about ½ a mile south of the Lutheran brick church into this township, without exposures; and there are no outcrops of the No. VIII rocks until in descending the ravine below H. Benfer’s house, there is a good exposure of the Genessee shales and slates, gray in color and weathering yellow on dips of 55°–60° north, the outcrop extending south to the forks of the road. The Hamilton