The Clinton or Fossil Ores. 49 



THE WELLS MINE, in the eastern part of Kirkland is idle. 



Thence the outcrop is traceable west and south-west to the open- 

 ings near Clinton village. 



ELLIOTT AND PADDON MINES, Kirkland, Oneida County.— 

 North-east of the mines of the Franklin Iron Manufacturing Company 

 and east of Clinton, James Paddon and Frank Elliott own ore banks. 

 They have lain idle for several years. The bed of ore is reported to 

 have been four feet thick at one point in the Paddon mine, but the 

 roof was poor, on account of the thin layers of shale and. heavy bear- 

 ing of earth. 



The MINES of the FRANKLIN IRON MANUFACTURING- 

 COMPANY are near Clinton, on the east of a small stream. The 

 ore beds descend about one foot in 100 feet, to the south-west. The 

 overlying material is dark-colored, shales and shalv sandstones, and is 

 from twenty to thirty feet thick. The upper ore bed is thirty inches 

 thick, and shale twelve to eighteen inches thick, separates the upper 

 and lower ore beds. The upper bed alone is now worked. The long- 

 wall S3^stem of mining is followed and drifts have a height of four 

 feet, being cut two feet up into the roof. Two main adit levels are cut 

 in the ore eastward and east-north-east, more than half a mile. The 

 working face has a length of 4,200 feet, and the ore has been removed 

 from an area of sixty-four and one-half acres. A part of the mine 

 has a natural drainage. The ore is loaded on cars of a capacity of 

 2,800 to 3,000 pounds, which are drawn by mules to the dump, 

 whence it is taken on a branch railway to the company's furnaces, two 

 miles south of the mine. 



The chemical composition of the average ore is shown in the follow- 

 ing analysis : * 



Oxide of iron.- _ 69.17 



Alumina 3.92 



Lime.. 5.80 



Magnesia 2.27 



Oxide of manganese — 0.19 



Phosphoric acid 1.726 



Silica 11.57 



Carbonic acid . 4.75 



Sulphur 0.28 



Metallic iron 48.42 



Phosphorus 0.754 



* Communicated by C. H. Smyth, Jr., Chemist of the Franklin Iron Works. 



