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thinner and the fossil ore is broken by intercalations of lime- 

 stone and shale. The latter rock reaches its extreme thickness 

 here, the hole showing 22y feet without practical interruption from 

 the base of the limestone which is taken as the uppermost Clinton 

 to the first seam of ore. 



Verona, Oneida co. The site of this drill hole is loo yards 

 west of Verona Station, on the Davis farm, just south of the 

 highway where it is crossed by the creek. It is 2^ miles south- 

 west from the nearest outcrop of the Oneida conglomerate. The 

 Cagwin opening for ore is i mile and the Klein opening i^ miles 

 from this locality. 



SECTION AT VERONA STATION 



Strata 



From 





To 





Character 





Feet Inc 



has 



Feet Inches 





Sand and clay. . . 











18 









Shale 



18 







37 



2 



This is a light colored shale 

 with only a few thin bands of 





















limestone. 



Ore 



37 



38 



2 



38 

 74 



2 



Possil ore 



Shale 



2 







Shale quite unifoiiii as regards 

 texture. A few thin bands of 



















limestone, up to 2 inches thick. 



Sandstone and 













shale 



74 







84 



4 



These layers are quite variable. 

 Some are made up of light sand 

 in a dark shale matrix. The 

 upper 2 feet is a fine grained cal- 

 careous sandstone. A few of the 

 layers contain pebbles. 



The object of putting down a hole at this locality, which is 

 only a mile or so distant from old mine workings on the Clin- 

 ton, was to test for a possible oolitic bed below the fossil ore 

 which alone has been known. The presence of a lower ore 

 horizon would appear probable from comparison of the two 

 sections at Clinton and at Brew^erton, east and west respectively 

 of the present locality. In both sections two beds are shown, 

 the lower being oolitic. The fossil nature of the Verona ore 

 indicates relationship with the upper or red flux bed found to 

 the east. The oolitic bed, so far as it can be identified, thus dis- 

 appears in the interval. 



