BEDFORD WEEKLY MAIL BEDFORD, INDIANA FRIDAY, SEPT. 21, 1900 The statement is made by New York architects that three quarters of the great buildings erected in that city in 1897 were of the Indiana oolitic stone. The figures may be exaggerated, but the fact remains that from 5,000 to 7,000 car loads of stone are being shipped annually from the Indiana oolitic field to the city of New York, principally from Bedford. The Vanderbilt, Sloan and many other mansions along Fifth Avenue in New York are of the stone. These builders never asked the cost but demanded quality. The same applies to the skyscrapers, whose owners have come away out through and past the granite quarries at their very door, and have taken the easily worked and ornamented and stable Indiana oolitic.