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ee, MAGNETIC TRON ORS 
OF VICTORIA COUNTY, 
WITH NOTES ON CHARCOAL IRON SMELTING. 
BY W. HAMILTON MERRITT, F.G.8., Assoc. R. 8. M., &., &c. 
Mining Engineer and Metallurgist, Mail Building, Toronto. 
During the past summer | was called upon to make a general 
report of the iron occurrences in the vicinity of the Victoria Rail- 
road, and I now have much pleasure in bringing to your notice, in a 
condensed form, the result of my investigations. 
The Miles Location, or Old Snowdon Mine, has received notice at 
the hands of Prof. Chapman in a report published in 1874, therefore 
the general character of the ore will be known to some of you. 
The Victoria Railroad, as you know, runs from Lindsay to Hali- 
burton, some 55 miles. A short distance north of Lindsay a branch 
was built by Mr. Miles, which runs in a westwardly direction to his 
iron location, six miles from the main line. I shall now briefly refer 
to the GEoLoaicaL ouritNnes, which I do not think have been previ- 
ously recorded. 
Going north from Lindsay, several escapements of horizontal beds 
of Silurian Limestone are passed through. On crossing the Burnt 
River, after leaving Fenelon Falls, an outcrop of Granite appears on 
west side of the Railroad. Some compact limestone, approaching a 
marble in texture, which takes a good polish, and a bed of lithographic 
stone, are passed in cuttings near Feily’s Bridge. 
The crystalline rocks come in between Felly’s Bridge and Kin- 
mount (at which place they are well defined), but owing to the over- 
grown condition of the country, it was impossible to note their junc- 
tion. 
The crystalline rocks belong to the Laurentian Series, the strongest 
iron carrying rocks in our country. Their strike here, as is general, 
is about N. N. E. and 8. S. W. and dip about 40 ¥ E. 
They consist of alternating granite, gneiss, syenite and crystalline 
limestone, with occasional bands of dioritic rocks, which, however, are 
not so strongly developed in this as in the Madoc region. 
