The Highlands of the Hudson — Magnetic Iron Ores. 17 



grained as that of Scott mine. None of these ores are suitable for 

 making Bessemer pig-iron. A narrow guage road connects the Scott 

 and Cooke with the Sterling Mountain railway at the Lake mine. 



The ore mined by the Sterling Iron and Railway Company goes to 

 its Sterling Furnace (on this tract), and to furnaces in Eastern Penn- 

 sylvania. The annual output is large and constitutes the greater part 

 of the total production of the magnetic iron-ore region of the High- 

 lands, — an example of efficient and economic administration. 



AUG-USTA MINE, Monroe, Orange County.— This mine, east of 

 Augusta, was opened in 1878-9 and worked a short time. On the 

 same (Lorillarcl) property, three-quarters of a mile west of Sloatsburg, 

 a mine was worked in 1877. They are idle. 



MOUNT BASHA MINE, FORSHEE MINE, O'NEIL MINE, 

 CLOVE MINE, Monroe, Orange County. — These mines are situated 

 between one and three miles south of the village of Monroe and west 

 of Arclen (Greenwood Iron Works formerly). They have not been 

 worked since 1880, and then for the supply, in part, of the Green- 

 wood furnaces. 



East of the N. Y., Lake Erie and Western railway are the follow- 

 ing-named mines, the property of the Parrott Iron Company: 



HOGENC AMP MINE, SURE-BRIDGE MINE, PINE SWAMP 

 MINE, GREENWOOD MINE, CUNNINGHAM MINE, Monroe, 

 Orange County. — Of these mines the Hogencamp is the only one 

 which has been in operation in the past decade. 



BULL MINE, Blooming Grove, Orange County. — The Bull mine 

 is named from Bull Hill, a narrow ridge of gneissic rocks, 870 feet 

 high, in which it is sunk. The Parrot Iron Company worked it 

 until the summer of 1880. 



All of these mines on the old Greenwood tract (Parrot Iron Com- 

 pany) are away from railroad lines, from one to three miles ; and the 

 cartage over hilly roads adds to the cost of mining. Since the fur- 

 naces at Greenwood (now Arden) were dismantled they have been 

 closed. Excepting the Hogencamp and Forshee they produced a 

 non-Bessemer ore. They were opened at an earl)' day. Dr. Beck 

 described them in his Mineralogy of New York in 1842.* 



* Natural History of New York, Mineralogy, pp. 7-9. 



