1874.] 



53 



[ Lesley. 



15,000 cubic yards, with 21 to 25 feet of wash and lump ore in the walls ; 

 abandoned 20 years ago. 



No. 17. California Bank, 200 yards west of the Red Bank, and on the 

 same slope and outcrop (see Local Map, fig. 25, (received its name from 

 Fig. 26. Fig. 27. 



J.f^Lesie^ 



Survei/''d /y ^ranl^:T'/aIt . 



the richness of its ore, before it was abandoned 20 or 25 years ago, on ac- 

 count of its distance from Pennsylvania furnace, the abundance of 

 water and lack of pumping apparatus, the refractory quality of its 

 mineral in the cold blast charcoal stack, and especially the abundance of 



