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Hill.” He also further conveyed “all the metal, mineral or iron 
ore usually known and designated by the name of Franklinite 
found or to be found” on the northern portion of the bed, the 
exact boundaries matter little for our purposes. From this 
rather obscure, badly worded and unfortunate reservation, it 
appears ev ident that Dr. Fowler regarded the franklinite as an 
ore of iron or at least not a profitable source of zinc, for in 
1850 he conveyed to other parties “all the reserved ore called 
franklinite and all other reserved ores and metals not granted 
or conveyed to the Sussex Co.” 
Undoubtedly the impression which prevailed at this time and 
before, that there were two distinct veins, one rich in zincite 
and willemite next the foot-wall, and the other in franklinite 
next the hanging, contributed to this result. Ultimately this 
latter reservation came into the possession of Moses Taylor. 
Meantime the New Jersey Zinc Company had become possessed 
of the first conveyance, and had set up the manufacture of zinc 
white and zinc. J.D. Whitney, writing in 1854,* speaks in 
high terms of their plant and calls it the only important metal- 
lurgical improvement that had up to that time been made in 
America. Naturally, in mining the zincite and silicate (wille- 
mite is generally called sillicate and zincite, oxide among the 
miners), much franklinite was also removed, and this led to 
a famous mining suit between Moses Taylor, plaintiff, and the 
New Jersey Zinc Company, defendant. A decision was finally 
rendered in favor of the former by the United States Circuit 
Court, sitting at Treuton in 1876. <A consolidation of the two 
interests followed, and they have since operated as one, under 
the name of the New Jersey Zine and Iron Company. The 
stimulating motive of the suit was, without doubt, the avail- 
abilty of franklinite as a source of spiegeleisen i in the Bessemer 
steel process. Moses Taylor was one of the chief owners in the 
Lackawanna Iron and Steel Company of Scranton, by which 
company the New Jersey Zine and Iron Company is practically 
owned. The northern central portion of the great bed is 
operated by the Lehigh Zinc Company, at the so- called Trotter 
Mine. The Lehigh Company have developed by borings, the 
continuation of the back vein, and are now sinking a shaft that 
will tap it at about 1,000 feet. A law suit is at present pend- 
ing between them and the New Jersey Company, the latter 
being the plaintiff. At Ogdensburgh the New Jersey Company 
owns the northern end, but the works are closed, and have been 
for some years. The southern end, the bend and the back vein 
are operated by the Passaic Zinc Company. 
* Metallic Wealth of the United States, p. 346. 
