ELISHA MITCHELL SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY. 91 



bed at this point, the dip being abnormally 20° north of 

 east, and the strike N. 34° W. The foot-wall is a decom- 

 posed feldspathic material. The ore carries an excessive 

 amount of hydroscopic moisture. Analyses of the natural 

 and dried ore, by Mr. A. S. McCreath, show: 



Natural Ore. Dried at 212° F. 



Silica 3-49^ 6.090 



Metallic iron 27.236 47-450 



Metallic manganese 5.224 9.102 



Phosphorus 0.058 o. T02 



Moisture at 212° F. 42.600 



About half a mile due west from here, a bed of very hard, 

 compact, crystalline magnetite has been opened at two 

 points, differing 100 feet in elevation, on Jacob Stewart's 

 land near the summit of Turkey knob. The gangue is 

 hornblende and quartz. The openings were filled in, but 

 the ore was reported to be 5 feet thick. 



An analysis by Mr. White shows: 



Per Cent. 



Metallic iron 63.501 



Phosphorus 0.006 



Titanic acid-- trace. 



The ore has been traced half a mile north-east from here 

 to the William Hamm place. 



About three-quarters of a mile south-w^est from the 

 Francis opening, on the waters of Old Field creek, a tribu- 

 tary of Horse creek, a number of openings on the south- 

 w^estern spur of Turkey knob, on the land of Joseph Gray- 

 beal, have exposed a bed of magnetic ore, which was 

 w^orked a number of years ago for some of the old forges. 

 One of these old openings shows a great deal of soft, mixed 

 shot-ore disseminated in decomposed schist, with a streak 

 of manganiferous earth in the front part of the opening. 

 The main opening is a cut about 50 feet long, exposing 

 two beds of ore, respectively 4 and 18 feet thick, separated 

 by a horse of clay. The 4 feet of ore in the front part of 



