John, Sounds as if the federal government may not have known  
exactly where the sandstone was located or which county the town was  
in. Hard to tell how they collected the information in 1890.  Is the  
sandstone quarried at all or has it ever been?  I am beginning to get  
really fascinated with the possibility of gathering representative  
stones from some of these places.  Where we use mostly high carbon  
steel in old tools, these stones would still be viable alternatives!   
A rock is is a pretty cool old tool!  Paul in Normal

On Sep 14, 2006, at 8:31 AM, JTWad@a... wrote:

>
> One minor cavil with the research Bill  dug up--:
>
>  county>
>
> Nope.  Sullivan County.
>
> John Wadsworth,  in Delhi, Delaware County, NY
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