Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . Vol. XXX —7 (97) 98 Ohio Arch, and Hist. Society Publications. and found at the quarry where many more were in evidence areshown in Fig. 3. The farm upon which the quarry is located is owned by Fisher, who kindly presented to the museum a fine sampleof the partly shaped buhr-stone shown to the right in Fig. 3 aswell as a buhr-stone sent from France and used as a samplestone. The manufacture of these small buhr-stones during theearly settlement of the country was a very great convenience tothe people, as water mills for grinding grain coul
Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . Vol. XXX —7 (97) 98 Ohio Arch, and Hist. Society Publications. and found at the quarry where many more were in evidence areshown in Fig. 3. The farm upon which the quarry is located is owned by Fisher, who kindly presented to the museum a fine sampleof the partly shaped buhr-stone shown to the right in Fig. 3 aswell as a buhr-stone sent from France and used as a samplestone. The manufacture of these small buhr-stones during theearly settlement of the country was a very great convenience tothe people, as water mills for grinding grain could only be con-structed where proper conditions prevailed, and often long dis-. FiG. 3. Complete buhr-stone made by Mr. Samuel Drumm. To theleft in Fig. 3 is a partly shaped buhr-stone from the farm of Fisher. tances would be traveled to find such a mill; consequently thesmall hand mill made from Flint Ridge flint was very desirable,and the manufacture of the buhr-stones proved to be a verylucrative industry. The buhr-stones manufactured at the Drummsite were sent to a point on the Old National Road, three milesto the south, where they were transported by ox teams as farwest as the Mississippi River and as far east as Pittsburgh. The preliminary examination of numerous quarries uponFlint Ridge made it apparent that the solution of the problemof quarrying the flint was unsolved and, to arrive at any definiteconclusions, a systematic study of the entire area was necessary. Flint Ridge. 99 Consequently the field of investigation was extended to everypart of the ridge where primitive man attempted to quarry andmake use of the flint. GEOLOGY OF FLINT RIDGE.
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