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the Iron Ore Tract. It was opened in 1842, and was worked to a 

 depth of 180 feet. The ore is said to be rich, Bessemer, carrying 

 67.7 per cent, of metallic iron and .018 per cent, of phosphorus. 

 There is an engine at the mine, but no work has been done lately. 



NOBLE MINE, NIG-G-ER HILL, Elizabethtown, Essex 

 County. — Another mine of the Champlain Iron Company on lot No. 

 136 of the North Riverhead Tract. The ore has been opened for 

 150 feet, on a side hill, on the out-crop. The vein is eleven feet wide. 

 The ore bed was first discovered in 1825. No mininsr has been done 

 in fifteen years. 



The distance of these mines from lines of public transportation, 

 low prices, and slack demand for iron ore, prevent their further 

 development at present. 



G-ATES MINE, Elizabethtown, Essex County. — Two iron mines 

 have been opened on lot No. 138, of Iron Ore Tract, south of New 

 Russia. One is owned by H. A. Putnam of Elizabethtown. The 

 ore has been opened a length of about twenty rods, and in one 

 shaft to a depth of 140 feet, and has been found to range from two to 

 sixteen feet in width. The strike is north-northeast, and the dip of 

 the ore bed 60° westerly. The ore is fine-crystalline, and averages 

 about 50 percent, of metallic iron. North-west of the above-described 

 opening, and iu the lower ground, the Vulcan Iron Company of 

 Boston, opened a vein of ore, which was 12 to 20 feet wide. The 

 ore was remarkably fine-grained. The greatest depth reached was 

 70 feet. The ores from these mines were used mostly in the forge 

 at New Russia. About 10,000 tons were obtained from the Gates 

 mine. No work has been done in them since 1882. 



Iron ore has been mined on the O'Donnell lot in this town by 

 L. H. Roe, of Mineville. 



On lot 209 of the Iron Ore Tract, and two miles south-east of 

 Elizabethtown a titaniferous-ore bed was opened years ago, but not 

 much ore was raised. 



West of the Bouquet river in this town magnetic iron ore in work- 

 able extent has been discovered on what is known as the Castaline 

 place, north of New Russia, and in the Wakefield, Post and Ross 

 veins. A titanic iron ore is reported on lots Nos. 115 and 116, one 

 mile south of Kingdom forge. Since the stopping of the forges these 

 mines have lain idle. The Castaline bed is one of the oldest open- 



