46 GEOLOGICAL REPORT. 



Mr. Broadhead reports the following from Maries county : 

 "In S.E. qr. of Sec. 20, T. 41, R. 11 W., fragments of lead 

 were found associated with Sulphate of Baryta. Only a few 

 pounds have been found here, and no mining has been done. 

 The rocks here are the lower beds of the 2d Magnesian Lime- 

 stone. 



"In N.W. qr. of Sec. 34, T. 40, R. 11, about 100 pounds of 

 lead have been taken out. It occurs in a vertical opening be- 

 tween the walls of 2d Magnesian Limestone. The walls are 

 about four feet apart and the course of the fissure nearly east 

 and west, a little N.E. and S.W. The lead occurs with iron 

 ore. I was told that there were too thin vertical sheets of iron 

 ore with lead between." 



Franklin County. There has been no opportunity for exam- 

 ining the mines in this county since 1845 ; but it is known that 

 many new and important localities of lead have been discover- 

 ed since that time ; and there can be no doubt that the long 

 cherished confidence in the richness and extent of its lead 

 deposits, will be fully sustained. When capitalists are pre- 

 pared to enter upon wise and systematic mining, many of the 

 localities can be worked with great profit. The most reliable 

 information respecting many of these mines may be derived 

 from the following 



ABSTRACT FROM DR. LITTON's REPORT OF 1854. 



" Golconda Mines, in Township 43, R. IE., Sec. 8. The first 

 digging was done here, probably, in 1830. The mineral was 

 found here at first in the clay, and for the first two years most 

 of the mining was limited to this. In sinking down, a fissure 

 was discovered ; the course of which is N. 10 or 15 E. The 

 greatest width of this fissure is three feet. At a point, south 

 from the shafts, and distant 400 yards, the fissure is visible, and 

 has at that point a width of two or three inches. Seven shafts 

 have been sunk on this fissure, the deepest of which is eighteen, 

 and the shallowest twelve feet. The fissure is filled with clay, 

 mineral and calc spar. 



" To the east of this fissure, and distant from it but a few feet, 

 is another, with nearly the same course, and having, in some 

 points, a width of four feet. From it, also, has been obtained 



