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By rail-road it is about 10-11 miles from
Stonewall to Cherry Run and while here there is
no Cretany yet the entire Heldenbergian is
at the latter place
present all of which must have been present at
Stonewall for the sea came from the north and
yet all of it is absent at Stonewall. Of course
in different places there is probably once in less
of it preserved.
In the first quarry operated by the Pennsylv-
niania Glass sand Co which is high up on the
mountain side, at least 100 feet I'm probably
75 feet wide and 100 feet deep one is im-
pressed by the purity of the sand in spite of its
many faults, and the wicker-like nature of it.
This only the loose soft material that is used as
the hardened layers have too much iron. About
one third of the material is thrown away, the
remainder is crushed, screened and altered to
be used for glass sand. This also pulverized
and used in roof making and by potters for
glaze. About 120 tons of material is quarried
per day and the sand for glass making is sold
at about # 1.50 per ton.
The Cretany sandstone at this locality is
an unmitatable clearly worked hard sand.