DESCRIPTIVE NOTES 



I RON WL INES, 



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WARWICK MINE, TAYLOR MINE, FERRO HILL MINE, 

 Warwick, Orange County. — This cluster of .mines is near the New 

 Jersey line, and two miles south-east of Warwick. The Warwick 

 belongs to the Parrott Iron Company, and is the largest of the three 

 mines. It has not been in operation since 1880. The Taylor and 

 Ferro Hill are comparatively small ore bodies. They, also, have 

 been idle for the same time. 



SNYDER MINE, Warwick, Orange County. — One of the 

 Ringwood group of mines, and the property of Cooper & Hewitt, 

 of New York city. It has not been worked in many years. 



STERLING- IRON AND RAILWAY COMPANY'S MINES, 

 Warwick and Monroe, Orange County. — This company owns a 

 large tract of land in the towns of Warwick and Monroe, in Orange 

 county, and on it are opened the following : Crawford, Behring, 

 Moorhead, California, Sterling, Clarke, Lake, Reel Back (or Spruce 

 Swamp), Hard, Cook, Scott and Oregon, Mountain, Causeway, 

 Lono; and Augusta mines. The oldest and most famous of this 

 group is the Sterling mine, near Sterling Pond and at the terminus 

 of the Sterling Mountain Railroad. It was opened in 1750, and a 

 furnace was built in 1751, according to the report of Dr. William 

 Horton, in Mather's " Third Annual Report on the First Geological 

 District." No ore was raised from it last year, although the pumps 



