58 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Fe 34.98 



P 351 



S ^ 044 



The shipments from the property during 1907 are reported to 

 have averaged between 36 and 38^ iron. 



A spur from the R. W. & O. Railroad extends into the pit from 

 the western end and the ore can be loaded directly on cars for 

 shipment. The rock is run out at the opposite end on a track and 

 dumped on the waste land north of the pit. The excavation has 

 been carried on by means of a 65-ton Marion steam shovel which 

 works down to the limestone capping. The limestone and ore are 

 then removed by drilling and blasting. 



Swartout opening. Just west of this property, across the rail- 

 road track, is the Swartout opening, which was worked about 35 

 years ago. The workings are small and the amount of ore taken 

 out could not have amounted to more than a few hundred tons. 



Furnaceville Iron Co. A short distance farther west, on the 

 Josiah Gailey farm, ore was mined during the years 1887 and 1888 

 by the Furnaceville Iron Co. The locality is referred to by Smock^ 

 who states that the ore occurs in two beds, each about 18 inches 

 thick. It would appear that the two beds are the same as the main 

 bed on the property of the Fair Haven Iron Co. which, as already 

 stated, is divided by a thin seam of limestone. From information 

 obtained locally, the thickness of the ore as mined ranged from 30 

 to 40 inches. The ore was uncovered by steam shovel. The prop- 

 erty is said to be still owned by the Furnaceville Iron Co. 



Oneida county 



The section of the Clinton belt extending through the towns of 

 New Hartford, Kirkland, Westmoreland and Verona, Oneida co., 

 has afiforded most of the ore obtained from the formation in the 

 eastern part of the State. Openings have been made in the ore at 

 intervals all the way from the Oneida-Herkimer county line on the 

 east to Verona Station on the west. Most of the work has been 

 done by open cutting along the outcrop, a method exclusively pur- 

 sued in the early days of mining, but now abandoned. For some 

 years past operations have been restricted to the properties just 



* First Report on the Iron Mines and Iron Ore Districts in the State of New York. 

 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 7. 1889. p. 51. 



