on
kind. From this circumstance, it is fair to expect, that provided the
stone of Greenhow-hill can be delivered at Bolton-Percy for 6s. 6d. per
ton, and at Cawood, Selby, Booth-Ferry, and Howden for 8s. it will both
become an article of tonnage in a descending direction, and a great
acquisition to that district; but as that neighbourhood has never been in
the habit of paying such a high price for highway materials, it will
probably in the first instance meet with many objections, which may be
replied to in two ways--1st, that whatever is worth doing, is worth well
doing; and that the best materials are the cheapest;--and 2dly, if the
surveyors and overseers of Northallerton and Brompton have, by their
experience, established the above fact, and found this stone cheaper than
that at home, it is reasonable to conclude that the surveyors and
overseers of the highways in the neighbourhood of Cawood, Selby, and
Howden, may do the same; for the soil of that district is equally fertile
and rich as that of Northallerton; and the occupiers of it equally
opulent--hence their ability to do well whatever is worth doing.

The expense of this stone at the before-mentioned places we state
below:--

Pounds _s._ _d._
One ton of 0 1 3
stone delivered
at
Pateley-bridge
33 miles Rail 0 2 9
dues at 1d. per
ton per mile
33 miles waggon 0 2 9
dues, do.
Cost of stone 0 6 9
at Bolton-Percy
per ton
Removing do. 0 0 6
into the boat,
do.
Freight of do. 0 1 0
Selby, Cawood,
or Howden
0 8 3

It is probable the expense of delivering this stone at Pateley-bridge,
might be reduced by the application of a Railway from that place to the
quarry; by this estimate horses are expected to be used; it is also
possible to remove it from the waggon to the boat at less than is stated
above.

The neighbourhood of Pateley-bridge possessing many water-falls on which
more mills might be built, gave rise to an idea of cutting this
last-mentioned stone by water-sawing, into scantlings for fire-places,
hearths, and slabs; but upon an experiment being tried, it was found to
contain what is termed the dry heads, which cause a division of the parts
whe