1873.] 



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[Lesley. 



Nos. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14. These are small, shallow, long since aban- 

 doned pits from which ore was hauled to Old Holly or Augusta Fur- 

 naces ; or trial shafts sunk into solid ore. They lie at irregular distances 

 from each other, close up against the South Mountain, in a line extend- 

 ing from Papertown Gap west 7 miles. The pits are almost entirely 

 filled up and no estimates can be made from them. 



No. 15. Grove §■ Co.'s Batiks. — These banks lie close against the South 

 Mountain, 1 mile south of the Yellow Breeches Creek, 6i miles south, 

 30° east from Newville. Augusta and Cumberland Furnaces ran many 

 years mainly upon ores from these banks, which were extensively opened. 

 They are now so completely fallen shut as to prevent any reliable esti- 

 mates, but probably not less than 50,000 tons of ore have been taken 

 from them. A great quantity of rich wash ore is now lying on their 

 edges. The ore is reported to have worked well in the furnace, needing 

 however considerable admixture of limestone ores. 



No. 16. Big Pond Banks. — Lie 7 miles south of Newville, 5 miles east 

 of Shippensburg, and a-half mile northwest from Big Pond Furnace 

 The accompanying rough sketch, Fig. 13, shows the position of the dif- 

 ferent openings, washer, &c. 



Scale botjftstm 7 iticSi. 



© OLD ORE PIT. 



The banks exhibit a series of openings, beginning at the northeastern 

 end of the sketch, where the ore bottom is only a few feet above the level 

 of the stream at the washer, running to the southwestern end of the 

 sketch, where wash ore is struck in an old ore pit near the surface, 75 

 feet above the stream level. Only one bank is now worked (D), and the 



