Lesley.] 4:4: [Jan. 2 and Feb. 6, 



estimate of quantify is possible with such information. The visible area 

 measures about 67, 500 square yards.* 



A little pipe ore has been found higher up the hill north of the road. 



Regular and progressive stoping from the south-west, along the belt, 

 may produce large results in the future. But the oreless clay of great 

 thickness intervening between the surface wash and the deep hard ore 

 will make mining expensive. 



Wo. 6. Hambarger's Bank, (Local Map, fig. 14,) is an open cut in 

 the south bank of the east branch of Warrior's Run, the surface of the 

 ground only rising 6 feet above the bed of the stream. 



A cross-road separates the excavation into two ; that on the southwest, 

 40 X 40 X 10 yards deep ; that on the northeast, 30^ X 30 X 10 yards 

 deep ; 25,000 (ubic yards in all. These pits reached a depth of 40 feet, 

 wholly in wash-ores and clays, without striking solid limestone. The 

 rock ore left in the bottom when the work was drowned out, is reported 

 to be less abundant than that found above it. But as the ore streaks 

 "dipped fast to the southeast," and the limestone out-crops of the 

 neighborhood dip from 22° to 34° in that same direction, (see Large Map,) 

 good mining will probably yield well. Plenty of good ore has been won 

 here, and nothing but the lack of pumping machinery stopped the win- 

 ning. Thos. Funk worlced the Banks at one time for the Milesburg 

 Company. 



The ore belt passes on eastward under Is. Buck's (now Smith's) lands, 

 where Messrs. Green of Barree raised ore, but took no sufficient means 

 for establishing a mine. 



Thence it enters and underlies S. Hanna's farm, with its numerous 

 ponds and sink holes, full of promise for the future. 



'A mine for Bellefonte Iron Works has just been opened (August, 1873, ) 

 at a point 300 yards northeast of Rumbarger's Banks, (see Local Map, 

 fig 14,) where a very heavy outcrop exists. Every cubic yard is washed 

 profitably. The cut is yet only 4 or 5 feet deep. 



As a heavy surface show extends 150 yards beyond Hannah Bank, we 

 have here an area of 450 X 50 = 2250 yards of wash ore of undetei'mined 

 depth ; besides the rock ore undoubtedly existing further down. 



Mining and washing will here be cheap, and the railway runs along the 

 hillside at a distance of 200 yards, and at an elevation of 35 feet, (fig. 14). 



Further on, the surface show is slight, or wholly wanting,f until we 

 reach the next excavation. 



No. 8. Waite Banks, shown in Local Map, fig. 15, consist of two 

 pits, 100 X 20 X 7, and 90 X 20 X 7 = 26,000 cubic yards, in size, 



* Ore is found in the soil of PetersholTs farm on the south of the Town Banks. There 

 is an old digging on the Hyskel (B. M. Thompson) farm; and further west outcroppings 

 on Thom. G-ano's, whose trial pit on a small vein near his orchard was stopped by water; 

 lively outcroppings show in several fields up the slope of Dry Hollow ridge. 



f A shallow pit 14 mile from Hannah Bank yielded some ore. The Waite Bank is 

 400 yards northeast of this shaft. 



