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here nearly 30 inches, ore rather soft, carrying perhaps 35 

 per cent, of iron Bed No. 2 not here A shaly stratum of 

 irony matter about one foot thick, seen only on the N. E. 

 side, evidently represents B3d No. 3 ; of no value. On the 

 western side of this ridge bed No. 1 again crops out; ore 

 about the same as at the branch not cut through, and thick- 

 ness unknown.* The trend of this ore is evidently towards 

 the fault in a S. W. direction and if it does not change 

 after leaving the ridge, it cannot possibly run far in that 

 direction. On the south side of the branch the rocks are 

 naked from the ore bed almost to the fault. Only one bed 

 of ore exists here the same one seen on the other side 

 It here measured 17 inches 35 per cent, of iron. 



Two hundred yards S. W. from this branch is a good ex- 

 posure of the Black Shale, and the strata beneath it for 

 twenty yards. B'ut very little of thesa strata could be 

 identified as Clinton. It was certainly the crumbled debris 

 that filled up the fault, where the Clinton had sunk. No 

 ore fragments even, could be found here, or in any part of 

 the low ground. For half a mile to the S. W. the line of 

 the fault is marked by a depression between the Cambrian 

 Limestone and the Lower Siliceous. It is not believed that 

 any iron ore or even Clinton strata will be found there. 

 On a higher point which juts down into this depression, an 

 opening had been made and some ore evidently of the 

 upper bed, had been taken out. It was evidently not thick. 

 In another pit dug on the same line but on lower ground it 

 was not found. No further indication of the existence of 

 iron ore, was found on this tract. It is therefore evident 

 that nearly all of the available ore, contained in this greatly 

 over-rated property, lies within a hundred yards, or less, of 

 the branch which cuts through it. That the average thick- 

 ness of its single bed is less than 2 feet of ore. 



In the S. E. i of S. 22 same Tp., the Clinton strata be- 

 came still thinner, surface distance across it 50 feet, and in 



*Since this was written several cuts have been made here ore 1 foot 

 thick, and much faulted. 



