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66 The Granite Industry of Southwestern New Brunswick: A Historical Perspective granite with a slightly pinkish cast. Feldspar crystals average about a fifth of an inch long and can reach more than half an inch. Quartz crystals are smaller and less abundant than feldspar; black mica is present in minor amounts. At the Browns Mountain Quarry (Map 2, 54) on The Ledge, the sheeting in the granite is pronounced and conforms to the domal shape of the hill. The sheeting dips 15ºS, comprising an upper section with a thickness of 8 feet and a lower section with a thickness of 2 feet. The main joints are vertical and strike N40ºE with a spacing of 10 to 25 feet. Another set strikes N68ºW and is accompanied by minor fracturing. The small black granite quarry on the south shore of The Ledge was rarely worked. Parks (1914, p. 151) reported that its stone closely resembled black granite from the Townsend Quarry (Map 2, 52) and in 1910 provided the material for five monuments. Upper: O'Brien and Baldwin stoneyard, c. 1910, backed by the Epps, Dodds & Co. granite shed. Source unknown. Lower: Meating, Epps Co. stoneyard, c. 1920. Cropped from PANB, P18-245
Part One — The St. George District 67 2 1 3 1 1 Granite sheds in the Town of St. George, c. 1950s. Aerial view looking northwesterly, showing Brunswick Street and some of the St. George granite sheds along the Magaguadavic River: (1) the quadrangular shed of Milne, Coutts & Co., (2) the riverside shed of O’Brien and Baldwin (formerly, the St. George Granite Works), and (3) the two-storey shed of Meating, Epps Co. (formerly Epps, Dodds & Co.). Compare with Map 4 and the photograph on page 20. Town Office, St. George, copied by Bruce Jackson
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