48 GEOLOGY OF ILLINOIS. 



Britton & Wilkins, Cady Range, Roberts Range, Wm. Richards, Wil- 

 cox & Co. 



In addition to the above named ranges, Mr. WHITNEY, in the first 

 volume of the Geological Survey of Illinois, gives the names of some 

 others not included in that list. These are the Kloepfer range, Barrow 

 Lot, the Morrelli & Monti group- of east and west, the Binsemer Diggings, 

 the groups of small diggings on Furnace creek, the Beber Diggings, the 

 Gaffner and Sinister ranges, in the same group with the Gafther; the 

 Whitliam range ; the Brendel, Eberhart, Widmer & Xolt, Monti, and 

 Leonhardt, is another well known group of mines ; the Wallis, Leonhardt 

 and Klein crevices on the Morehead Lot, the Wallis Diggings, and the 

 Mannett & Bassett Diggings, the Tourlin Lot, the DeToya Lot, and the 

 Flege Diggings, the Lowe Diggings, and the Marfield Diggings. 



These ranges and diggings are situated within a circle of about three 

 miles in diameter, of which the city of Galena would be the center. 

 They are principally on the west half of section 21, the north-west 

 quarter of section 1C, the west half of section 9, the north-west quarter 

 of section 28, east fractional section 8 all in township 28, range 1 east, 

 4th P. M. ; and on the east half of section 12, the east half of section 

 23, the south half of section 14, the north half of section 2(5, and the 

 east part of section 27 all in township 28, range 1 west, 4th P. M. 



The Vinegar Hill Diggings are about five miles north and a little east 

 of Galena. The following ranges are known by the following designa- 

 tions: Baily, Gear, Meighen, H. Maun, Indian, Feehan, Blood, Camp- 

 bell & Reppy, Furlong & Fechen, Talbot, Kennedy, Rogers, Hogan, 

 Gray, Leekley, Beedle, Briggs, Manley, Myers, Bruno, Cottle, O'Mara, 

 K. Orwick, Whim Range, Hawkin, Hart, Trover, Dugan, Liddme, Hos- 

 kiu, Sidemer, Shattluck, Smelt, 15 Strike, Foley, H. II. Gear, Cooney & 

 Ryan, Cox, Wy Irani, and Richards. These are located principally on 

 fractional sections 14, 15 and 16, on fractional sections 20 and 29, on 

 sections 21, 22 and 23 all in township 29, range 1 east, 4th P. M. ; and 

 on the east part of sections 24 and 25, township 29, range 1 west, 4th 

 P. M. On the west part of the last section named, on the north-east 

 corner of section 35, and on the north half of section 23, in the township 

 and range last aforesaid, there are also groups of diggings not enumer- 

 ated in the foregoing ranges. The Vinegar Hill mines are among the 

 heaviest in the lead region, if we consider the amount of mineral they 

 have furnished, but they are not now worked to a very great extent. 

 These diggings extend in a somewhat north-east and south-west direc- 

 tion, over a tract of ground about three miles long, and not to exceed a 

 mile in width. The shafts are sunk from about 50 to 90 feet deep, and 

 penetrate in many instances the flint beds of the Galena limestone. 



