1874.] 



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[Lesley. 



No. 1. The Old or East Pennington Bank, supplied Bald Eagle 

 Furnace with stock for many years. The ore was hauled about four miles 

 over the mountain. It was chiefly got from the large open-cut shown in 

 Local Map, fig. 8 ; but also from underground gangways following the 

 ore down the dip (N. W.) beneath a clay covering ; and from shafts sunk 

 on that side, tunnels or rooms being driven from the bottoms of the shafts 

 irregularly in every direction at the caprice of uneducated miners, who 

 groped always in the dark, without correct geological ideas to guide them, 

 following what they imagined to be the thickest beds and belts of the 



Fig. 9. 



PENNINGTON ORE BANK 

 1851 .1866^ 'bl . 



best ore, and leaving all the rest to stand and be covered up again by the 

 annual tumbling in of their shallow works. Most of these miners were 

 Irish laborers paid by the ton. Water invariably stopped them, and 

 limited the range of workings to a comparatively narrow belt down hill. 

 The great deposits of ore unquestionably lying to the deep (N. W.) are 

 Tinexplored. Neither maps nor notes of the old works exist. 



