Lesley.] ^^ [ Jan. 2 and Feb. 6, 



sent to Huntingdon Furnace ; as was done in other places along this 

 part of the range on the South Slope of Dry Hollow Ridge. No atten- 

 tion was paid to the great body of wash ore forming the deposit, and no 

 eifort to mine to the deep. A vast body of ore. ground awaits future ex- 

 ploration and excavation, within a mile of the railroad. Quartz occurs 

 in this ore bank. 



No. 26, Bressler Bank, (see fig. 16) is a collection of small holes, 

 on the north-west side of the ridge, in a ravine descending to the east 

 branch of Warrior's Run, and distant from the railway, half a mile. 

 About 2500 cubic yards of excavation seems to have been made in past 

 years. The pits are fallen in, showing sandy wash ore in their sides. 

 Eight feet of lump ore is reported as mined in this locality. No geo- 

 logical indications of the structure appear. 



This completes all I have to say here of the Dry Hollow outcrop. For, 

 although ore has been found further south-west along the south side of 

 the ridge towards Warrior's Run, no mining has been done ; and the Old 

 Seat Bank, (No. 37,) is so out of line with the Banks above described, 

 that it may be left for notice in connection with the ores west of Warrior's 

 Run. But I shall describe, further on, the continuation of this range 

 where it crosses Warrior's Mark Run and at the Huntingdon Furnace 

 and Dorsey Banks. 



I pass over, therefore, to the Gale Hollow (Kerr & Bredin, Hostler and 

 Pipe-ore) Banks further south-east. 



The Gale Hollow Range. 



Gale-Hollow is divided from Dry Hollow by Hickory Ridge, as shown 

 in the Large Map ; and its ores lie ia a deeper and narrower synclinal 

 than the ores in the gentle and wide synclinal of the Dry Hollow as shown 

 by section CD. They are, however, ores once carried by the same lime- 

 stone strata, and ought therefore to be of the same general character. It 

 is therefore remarkable that so little pipe ore has been found in Dry 

 Hollow, while an abundance of pipe ore characterises the Gale Hollow 

 Banks. 



No. 27. Kerr & Bredin Bank, (see local map, fig. 24, and wood 

 cuts 33, 34, 35,) is a small excavation of about 5000 cubic yards, show- 

 ing in its walls lump and wash ore, 25 feet deep. Much of the wash ore 

 seems leaner than in other Banks. A shaft has been sunk for explora- 

 tion in the bottom of the old cut, and the report of it is favorable to future 

 mining on a systematic scale. (See wood cut, fig. 35.) 



The ore from this bank won for itself a high reputation at the furnace. 

 It was called -'gun metal ore," and was said to bear a striking resem- 

 blance to the Bloomfield ore of Morrison's Cove, south of Holidaysburg in 



