1874.] ^i [Lesley. 



surface ore, but ricli and good when washed, on the hill slope a few 

 hundred yards northeast of the Wrye Bank, showing the continuation of 

 the outcrop in the direction of Half Moon Run. 



In the other direction, the outcrop has been exploited at the old Pond 

 Bank of Bald Eagle Furnace, 500 yards southwest of Wrye Bank, and 

 nearly in the bottom of the vale, which deepens rapidly.* It lies close to 

 the foot of Hickory ridge ; ore light but good, not sandy, and easy to 

 smelt. A pond, dry in dry seasons, covers some of the old diggings. 

 Much sui'face ore covers the neighborhood, and it will hereafter be an im- 

 portant mining ground, with heavy clay cover to the ore, requiring hard 

 pumping. 



Top ore of large size abounds around a sink-hole in Isaac Gano's fields, 

 on the north slope of Hickory Ridge, a mile S. W. of the pond. The 

 pieces seemed rolled from an outcrop of good ore seen half-way up the 

 hill, in the Huntingdon Furnace woods. 



At Simpson's Bank (f mile further west) the wash-ore is good and 

 easy to smelt. Whereas at Andrew's Bank, adjoining, (the Warrior's 

 Mark and Pennsylvania Furnace Road separating them,) sandy ore only 

 has been taken from the open cuts, but no shafting done. 



Tos. Krider's fields are covered with very rich scattered pieces of ore, 

 some lumps weighing 400 pounds. Attempts to find a bed at a little gap 

 near by, have failed thus far. The shafts were tried in thick woods ; 

 others were too low on the hill slope, and encountered only wash ore. 

 There is undoubtedly a heavy rock-ore deposit somewhere. Similar 

 shows are again seen half a mile further on (west) opposite the old wash- 

 machine, and Huntingdon Furnace has picked off the surface much of 

 this loose block-ore. A small layer was found in two or three shafts, but 

 never followed up to see what would come of it. 



No. 22. Dixon's Banks are only a few small holes, fallen shut, with 

 a slight sandy ore surface show, 100 yards west of the road, where it 

 crosses the head of the middle branch of the Dry Hollow. Here "a 

 small inegular vein yielded good oi'e a little west of it, on a detached 

 knoll, a thicker vein of poorer, flinty ore was found, at the edge of a 

 pond, and was thought not to pay for pumping, to get for charcoal fur- 

 nace use.f 



* This and the following named Banks are not exhibited on the Large Map, because 

 not accurately located. Their descriptions I got from Mr. BOcking's notes. 



t Mr. Booking thinks he remembers that this vein had a decided northern pitch, 

 and distinguishes it thus fi-om all the other veins of this range. This must be either a 

 mistake or a mere local accident. Mr. Piatt's field notes also mark a doubtful 

 N. 30° W. ^ 34° dip of the limestones in the through-cut 240 yards northwest of Railroad 

 section stake 81-80. But 100 yards N. E. of the same stake, soft rotten limestone strata dip 

 S. 30° E. ^ 20°. Other Railroad exposures show that the S. E. dip dominates the struc- 

 ture. Thus at Railroad station 4145, is a thorough-cut in blue limestone, dipping S. 30° 

 E. ^ 34° with regular cleavage planes N. 60° W. ^ 70°; at 4151, a good exposure of 

 limestone gives S. 30° E. ^ 26°. In Railroad cut at 4164, sandy and blue limestones the 

 layers seem to dipS. 60° E. > 31°; in the cut 180 yards S.W. of Railroad 4180 hard, sandy 

 limestones dipS. 45° to 50° E. > 26°. 

 A. P. S. — VOL. XIV. H 



