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clay. The dip is southward (towards the great central synclinal) and 

 deep workings and powerful pumps are needed, in future, south of the 

 old shallow surface workings. 



From Dry Hollow Summit Cut for the Railroad to the first shafts, a dis- 

 tance of about 400 yards, there is a decided outcrop. The shafts extend 

 over 200 yards to the edge of the big open cut A, fig. 29. They seem to 

 have gone down* through wash and lump ore 60 feet to water, which in 

 all cases stopped the works. The lumps alone were carried to the fur- 

 nace. The wash-ore was not valued then ; now it is merchantable. The 

 sinking was done at random and ore was always got. 



Mr, Piatt's estimates on the ground are as follows : 



The main bank A, shows wash-ore of very variable richness from top 

 to bottom, 50 feet. The shafts at B are reported 60 to 70 feet deep, through 

 wash and lump ore. From shaft C, on the roadside, 60 feet deep, 1600 tons 

 of excellent lump ore alone was selected for use. 



About 800 yards north-east of the Banks, the railroad line has exposed 

 a mass of lump and wash ore of excellent (Juality. 



The Old Red Bank of Bald Eagle Furnace is on a continuation of the 

 Dry Hollow deposit south-west, but higher up the hillside. It is shown 

 in local map, fig. 19. Mining was confined to the surface ore which was 

 sandy and without ' regular veins ;' but no one knows how the deposit 

 of ore is to the deep. 



The surface show between the Dry Hollow Banks and the Red Bank is 

 not so heavy as where the old excavations were made ; but the deposit 

 underueath is really continuous and unbroken, as is shown by the cut- 

 tings through the ridge made by the railway between the two localities. 

 See fig. 19. 



Here wash ore has been exposed for 100 to 125 yards along the track ; 

 sometimes 10 feet thick resting on clay ; sometimes 20 to 25 feet of wash 

 ore holding larger lumps. The varying thickness of the red clay and ore 

 layers in this cut is an instructive example of what the miners found in 

 their shafts. Some of the lumps weigh 300 to 400 lbs. Very few pieces 

 of silex appear ; and on the whole, this deposit looks freer from silica 

 than any in the valley. Little or no soil covering exists. 



The Red Bank pits and shafts are very numerous, and all shallow. The 

 ore when smelted alone, at Bald Eagle Furnace, made first class iron. 



From the south-west end of the Red Bank to the north-east end of the 

 Dry Hollow Bank is about 1000 yards. The breadth is 200 (say 150) 

 *25 years ago, more or less. 



