according to st. roy, in "the woodwright's companion", the following  
comes from "the annual report of the geological survey of arkansas of  
1890," chapter 3, "whetstones and novaculites of arkansas".

forthwith:

ohio:  sandstones are found at berea in cuyahoga county, amherst in  
lorain county, hocking river in hocking county, manchester in summit  
county, and farmington and mesopotamia in trumbull county.

new hampshire:  a fine-grained stone from lisbon in grafton county  
was known as the "chocolate."  those from orford came from the shore  
of indian pond and were sold under the "indian pond" brand name.   
other grafton county stones are found at littleton, haverill, and  
piermont.  a silurian novaculite is found at tamworth in carroll county.

new york:  there is silurian and cambrian novaculite slate in  
columbia county at clermont, germantown, greenport, livingstone,  
rogers island, stockport, and stuyvesant.  there is sandstone at  
labrador lake in cortland county and beaver kill river and monticello  
in delaware county.  silurian whetslates are found in rensselaer county.

vermont:  there are oilstone quarries on an island in lake  
memphremagog.  the island is about seven miles west of stansted  
village.  one quarry is now entirely underwater and the other partly  
so.  these were large quarries with stones of good repute.  there is  
cambrian novaculite slate at thetford in orange county and at  
guilford and marlborough in windham county.  huronian mica schist is  
in windsor county at ludlow, plymouth, and stockbridge.  cambrian  
mica schist is found in newport, trasburg, and brownington.  there is  
huronian talcose schist at northfield in washington county and mica  
schist at berkshire and fairfield in franklin county.

at least it says where "chocolate" is from.  without knowing if the  
deerlick stones were of a fine-grained sandstone (silurian sandstone  
can be remarkably fine-grained) or of novaculite, it'd be harder to  
narrow it down further than this, i guess.

paul's slate could be novaculite slate, either cambrian or silurian.   
true arkansas novaculites are lower siluran, and are fairly thickly- 
bedded (hence their abundance).

i am a hard-arkansas/lily-white washita/medium india man, myself.

cool thread.

bill
felton, ca

On Sep 13, 2006, at 7:52 PM, Dennis Heyza wrote:
> When I first tried to track down this company I found references to  
> the following types of domestic honing stones: Deerlick, Seneca,  
> Niagara, Chocolate and Lake . States identified as sources were New  
> York, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Ohio.
>
> One reference implied these were all of "lesser quality" than the  
> Arkansas, although it sounds like the Deerlick Company was at least  
> moderately successful, with distribution across the 48 (or however  
> many states there were c1900) and overseas.
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Schobernd"  
> 
> Subject: Re: [OldTools] Re: Deerlick Oil Stone Co?
>> Dennis and Galoots, Does anybody know if the Deerlick Stones were  
>> Novaculite or another mineral?  I never thought about what other   
>> types of natural stone in the U.S. were sold other than the  
>> Arkansas  Novaculite. I do have a couple old stones that appear to  
>> be closer  to slate than anything else, but that is about it for  
>> diversity in my  stable.  I remain a diehard user of Arkansas  
>> stones, but I'd like to  hear what native stones others are  
>> using.  Paul in Normal
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