Lesley.] 4:0 [Jan. 2 and Feb. 6, 



judicious trials of tlie deposit, and through the hollow leading to Patton's 

 (now Waite's) and the Lloyd Bank, above mentioned. 



No. 10. The Lovetown Banks, consist of numerous open-cuts 

 and shafts from which large quantities of ore have been extracted 

 and extensive preparations are in progress for regular mining of this 

 important part of the ore field. The principal outcrop occupies a 

 vale watered by a small branch of Half-moon. The old shafts of 

 Abram Love were stojjped by the influx of water. Pipe ore is visible near 

 Love's barn. Haifa mile west is an old "exhausted" Hannah Furnace 

 Bank. On the north slope of the ridge west of Love's, ponds and sink- 

 holes abound. Hannah Furnace had a Bank in David Berk's fields, and 

 abandoned a good deposit of ore in its floor, merely on account of water. 

 Surrounding shafts were also sunk, but no pumps were ever planted. A 

 few hundred yards west of the open-cut, some of these shafts went 

 through a pretty good "top vein " into a regular deposit 20 feet beneath 

 the surface. Southwest of this other shafts were sunk for the Milesburg 

 Company, in Abed. Stevens' fields, in good rich, sandy, black ore, close 

 under the sod, the poorer clay ores lying down on the limestone foot of 

 the hill. South of this, John Stine gathered much loose heavy ore from 

 his fields, and hauled it to Bald Eagle Furnace, many years ago ; but 

 no sinkings were done. The outcrop is noticeable in Jos. Bronstetter's 

 lane (leading to Wrye Bank) and in his fields on Cronister's line. 



The Lovetown Banks are shown on Local Map, fig. 20, occupying two 

 vales, descending eastward to the Half Moon Run, at the mill-dam. 



A rib of solid blue limestone strata, dipping S. 30° E. > 56° to 57°, 

 forms a low hill, up the south slope of woich the wash-ore rides on to the 

 flat summit. Natural ponds occupy, at points, the beds of the two vales. 



The north line of the Love property commences near the Beck Banks, 

 and runs down the northern vale to the corner of the mill-dam. The ore 

 has been open-cut at Station 37, 165 yards west of where this line crosses 

 the road. This once deeper old cut is now only ten feet deep, showing in its 

 walls liver-colored, somewhat lean, wash-ore. West of it is a series of 

 shafts for 450 yards, formerly sunk 60 or 80 feet (without timbering) until 

 water was reached, and after a little side-drifting, abandoned. Hannah 

 Funace ran for some time entirely on the ore got in this primitive fashion 

 from these holes. In one of them (St. 39) pipe-ore was found. Nothing 

 more is now known of them. They are evidently on a continuation of 

 the Beck Bank deposit, the result of decomposition of ore-bearing strata 

 underlying the rib of blue limestone at Station 56. 



The rest of the ore on the property belongs to the series of rocks above 

 the blue limestone, and to the southern vale. 



The first shafts are sunk near Love's house. Shaft A struck ore at 35 

 feet ; B, pipe-ore at 35 feet. Ore has recently been found southeast of A, 

 on the foot of the opposite hill. 



From Station 44 there extends east and southeast down across the 



