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of soft schistose ore has been opened on the land of John 

 Parsons, on Little Grapevine creek. The opening is a 

 very narrow and shallow one. It shows not less than 3 

 feet of ore, but the bed is not fully exposed. 



Less than half a mile north-west from here, on Douglas 

 Blevin's land, an opening on the top of a high ridge 

 exposes another ore-bed at least 8 feet thick. The ore is 

 extremely hard, in a gangue of hornblende gneiss. The 

 dip is 45° S. E. 



About half a mile south-west from here, on Piney creek, 

 i^ miles above its mouth, at Ballou's mill, a large bed of 

 manganiferous magnetite has been uncovered. The ore is 

 very coarse-granular in a matrix of brownish-black manga- 

 nese oxide. It is exceptionally pure and practically free 

 from gangue throughout its entire extent. The upper part 

 of the bed shows Gyi feet of solid hard ore, beneath which is 

 about I foot of soft manganiferous ore. The bed is proba- 

 bly even thicker than this, as its full extent has not been 

 uncovered. Several analyses show it to contain: 



I. n. III. IV. 



Silica 3.20 0.800 10.64 0.614 



Metallic iron 65.40 65.65 39.35 65.090 



Metallic mauganese 2.58 3.83 9.63 3.98 



Sulphur. 0.0069 



Phosphorus o.oii 0.004 0.022 0,019 



I. by C. B. White. 



II. "Hard" ore by McCreath. 



III. " Soft" ore by McCreath. 



IV. "Hard" ore by C. Baskerville. 



Crossing Piney creek, the same bed has been uncovered 

 about half a mile S. W. from here, on the land of Rob- 

 ert Francis, where a slope, 20 feet deep, exposes 10 feet 

 of soft manganiferous ore on the outcrop, pinching out to 

 considerably less than this at the face of the slope. 

 Throughout this soft material are scattered grains of 

 hard magnetite. There is evidentlv a roll or fold in the 



