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The mining plant consists of two Ingersoll air compressors, twenty 

 power drills, two ventilating fans, two Knowles steam pumps, etc. 

 A large force of men is employed, and the annual output has aver- 

 aged over 50,000 tons since the mine was opened in 1880 ; the total 

 output to the end of 1888 amounting to 392,321 tons. The ore is 

 all smelted in the company's furnace and makes a good foundry iron. 

 A small fraction, about ten tons a day, is ground into paint by the 

 Clinton Metallic Paint Company. 



The old mine south of the road has not been in operation since the 

 opening on the present location. 



THE CLINTON MILLS or FERMAN MINE of the Kirkland 

 Iron Company was opened in May, 1888. When visited, the bank 

 section showed: 



Glacial drift, with imbedded boulders 18-30 feet 



Greenish-gray shale 20 inches 



Ore bed 24-30 inches 



Floor of ferruginous sandstone. 



The inclination of the ore bed is at the rate of three feet in 100 

 feet and to the south-west. The floor is uneven ; and offsets of six 

 inches occur. The ore is red and fine-oolitic, with scattering small 

 pebbles, in places. Pyrite is found occasionally, in thin laminse, as 

 shale and ore partings. The mine has thus far been worked as an 

 open pit, and an acre or more of the ore has been uncovered. The 

 ore is carted bjr teams to the company's furnace, one and a half miles 

 north of the mine. It is used with magnetic iron ore and Antwerp 

 red hematite. 



THE NORTON ORE BED, adjoining that of the Kirkland Iron 

 Company, on the north, is no longer worked. 



The Clinton ore bed is traced in a west-north-west direction from 

 Clinton Mills, through Westmoreland and Verona ; and there are 

 several mines on its outcrop, none of which have been in operation 

 since 1882. 



Ore was dug on the same outcrop in the town of Lenox, Madison 

 county, for the Lenox furnace when in operation many years ago. 



These localities were referred to by Vanuxem in his report in 

 1842.* They have been abandoned. 



*Geology of the Third Geological District, Albany, 1842, pp. 88-89. 



