1874.] 



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B=80X40XlO-=32,000 cubic yards. A shows wash ore in the side, which 

 is 30 feet high above the water in the bottom. B shows about 30 feet 

 of reddish wash ore, with very little lump ore, from the water to the sur- 

 face of the hill. A neighbor who had worked in the pits, reports that 

 several feet of deep brown richer ore was found lying everywhere in 



Fig. 25. 



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both banks beneath the mass of reddish leaner ore. All this awaits the 

 time of improved mining with pumps and washers. 



Fig. 27 shows other old workings in the same deposit from 600 to 800 

 yards to the south-west of A and B. From two of these there have been 

 taken about 15,000 cubic yards of wash-ore, which still exhibits itself 20 

 feet deep in the walls ; the one furthest to the north-west in fig. 27, has 

 been deep, say 40 feet, but now, like all the larger cuts, has standing 

 water and mud in its bottom. Numerous shafts, all yielding ore, give 



