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which were coated with crystals of the carbonate of lead. At 

 the bottom of the shaft were found considerable quantities of 

 the yellow iron pyrites, intermixed with sulphuret of zinc. 



"Mr. Giles reports, that during the seven months he has been 

 working, with the assistance of seven hands more than half 

 the time, and during the remainder with that of only four 

 hands, he has obtained 3,000 pounds of mineral. The estima- 

 ted amounts of mineral, obtained from this mine, anterior to 

 Mr. Giles' lease, varies from 100,000 to 126,000 pounds of 

 mineral. 



" Elliott Mine, in Town. 41 N., R. 1 W., Sec. 6. This mine 

 lies on the south-western extremity of a ridge, the course of 

 which is a little west of north, and east of south. According 

 to Dr. Shumard, the top of the hill is sandstone, beneath which 

 is the third magnesian limestone. 



" The only mineral obtained here has been from the clay, on 

 the side of the hill, one acre of which is almost entirely cover- 

 ed with shallow shafts, the deepest I found open being twenty- 

 one feet. The mineral obtained has been principally from 

 three ranges, the general course of which was N.E. and S.W., 

 running parallel with one another, and distant fifteen to twenty 

 feet from each other. The exposure in the shafts was a red- 

 dish ferruginous clay, varying from twelve to twenty feet, be- 

 low chert, and beneath this the tumbling magnesian limestone. 

 The average depth of the shafts is not over twelve feet, and the 

 deepest ever sunk was forty feet. 



" The mineral is a very pure galena, accompanied by neither 

 calc spar nor heavy spar, and exhibits not the least intermixture 

 with either iron or zinc ores. As yet, it has been found only 

 in the clay and chert. Work was commenced here in June, 

 1853 ; and since then, with six hands, it is reported that 70,000 

 pounds of mineral has been obtained. 



" Besides the above, there are quite a number of points in 

 Franklin county at which galena has been obtained, and, at 

 some of them, in considerable quantities, but which were not 

 worked during the times of my visits to that county in 1853 

 and 1854. Most of them were not visited ; and I subjoin a list 

 of them, with the amounts of mineral which were reported to 

 me as having been obtained. 



" On the school section, in town. 42 N., R. 1 W., in 1827 and 



