. North Carolina and its resources. stone Companys quarry, about one-fourth mile west of Sanford. There are also other places nearSanford where brownstone of good quality has been discovered andopened up to a limited extent. Near Carthage, in Moore county, on the property of , McNeal & Bros., are several outcrops of brownstone whichpromise to be of excellent quality. Near Cumnock (Egypt) is a large exposure of a brownish red,compact sandstone, which is exposed along the banks of Deep riverfor a distance of half a mile. Also about one mile east of Guilfordalong the banks of Deep riv
. North Carolina and its resources. stone Companys quarry, about one-fourth mile west of Sanford. There are also other places nearSanford where brownstone of good quality has been discovered andopened up to a limited extent. Near Carthage, in Moore county, on the property of , McNeal & Bros., are several outcrops of brownstone whichpromise to be of excellent quality. Near Cumnock (Egypt) is a large exposure of a brownish red,compact sandstone, which is exposed along the banks of Deep riverfor a distance of half a mile. Also about one mile east of Guilfordalong the banks of Deep river, is a fine to medium grained sandstone;and in other places near by sandstones of color varying from olive togray and buff, have been found in considerable quantities, and arebeing quarried by the Gulf Buff Stone Company. Also along the line of the Raleigh and Western railroad, betweenCumnock and Colon, medium fine grained brownstone of good qualityhas been quarried to a limited extent. .m^^^$- r 41.: -^^??^. .•^ % \ ^#:*^-. STONE MOUNTAIN —WILKES COUNTY. Building Stones. 115 At several points in the western part of Wake count}-, as, nearBrassfield, and in Durnam county, sandstone of good quality has beenquarried to some extent. The Dukes quarry is located about onemile east of Durham, and the Rogers quarrj is located near thelatter. Concerning the granites, the following brief statement canmention only some of the more important quarries and places. InWake county there are near the city of Raleigh important beds ofgranitic gneiss which were worked at the Capitol Quarry in theeastern edge of the citj^ from which the material was obtained forthe construction of the Capitol. The penitentiary quarry, inside theenclosure of this institution, furnished the stone for the foundationand walls of the prison, and for a number of other purposes. On farm, two miles northwest of Raleigh, is a hard, tough, finegrained, gray gneiss, which has been worked at intervals for manyp
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