1874.] 



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[Lesley. 



At the distance of 1,900 feet there are somewhat less than twenty old 

 shafts in one group, quite forgotten until recently discovered by Mr. 

 George Lyon. They were mostly shallow pits in the surface of the pipe- 

 ore bearing clays ; but some of them look as if they had been sunk to 

 a considerable depth ; and their number proves that the search for ore 

 was remunerative even at that day. 



This part of Cale Hollow is a wide, flat, slightly undulating, dry vale, 

 every part of which shows a top-dressing of fine ore. It is a virgin 

 district. Mr. Lyon sunk one trial-shaft in it, and struck an "ore- 



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Jb SectioTb al j(£m ^^^redim Ore ^rnih. 



vein," There was a similar accidental discovery of another group of 

 five or six pits from which some top-ore had been scraped. I have no 

 doubt that a continuous belt of mining ground runs the entire length of 

 Cale Hollow. 



The Red Bank, 1| miles from the Hostler, on the same slope of the 

 Spruce Creek Ridge, is old and disused, the ore in the top clays was 

 stripped, but no attempt at deep mining was made. Another old bank 

 in line with it, but across a little ravine issuing from the ridge, furnished 

 some pipe-ore \o Huntingdon Furnace. Still further west,* in a similarly 

 * ^/a, miles from Hostler Bank. 



