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Rh less importance are opened so as to form practically a continuous operation for several hundred yards from the outcrop. The principal ones, having kilns in any condition fit for burning, are as follows from east westward;&emsp;1. A. Gross.&emsp;2. Henry Manbeck.&emsp;3. Obergast.&emsp;4. Isaac Ulsh.&emsp;5. Win. Stuck and, 6. Emanual Snooks.

There are perhaps a score of additional quarries in which some little work has been done, the ridge being farmed out in small lots to individuals. The limestone crops conspicuously, without any sandstone cover, so that the stone is readily quarried in one long cut 1000′–1200′ in length to the gap of a small stream flowing north to Middle creek, which has brought about the erosion of the overlying Oriskany sandstone. In the first 400′ along the outcrop at the eastern end of the hill the quarries are deeper on account of the facillityfacility [sic] for reaching the limestone beds from their eastern end. In these quarries there is about 60′ of stone exposed on a dip of N. 18° W. 45°. Some of the beds are excellent, but the ridge is capped by some shaly limestone which is not directly quarried but which, in being undermined, is very apt to fall down and be burned with the better beds below. There are no special features further west, most of the quarries being very shallow and working principally upon some good blue beds from 10′—20′ thick, near the top of the massive portion of the exposure. The opportunity for developing here is exceptionally fine but has not been apparently taken advantage of, owing to the number of individual operators.

Amos Mitchell’s quarry is open over a mile further west and about half way up the southern flank of the ridge, a short distance east of the road crossing to Middle creek, It is a small opening worked only for a local supply of lime and presents about 30′ of fair stone on a dip of 30° N. W.

About 300 yards west of Mitchell's, and on the west side of the road crossing the ridge, there are three more quarries opened before reaching the West Beaver line, as follows:&emsp;1. A. Ulsh.&emsp;2. R. Felker and S. Sellers.&emsp;3. D. Pontius and H. Felker.

These quarries are all opened on the same beds, rather