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and has a thickness of 22 inches as a maximum, diminishing grad- 

 ually as one proceeds in an easterly direction. At the upper reser- 

 voir on Starch Factory creek, across the county line, the bed is only 

 10 inches thick. The overlying rocks are shown here up to the red ' 

 flux bed which has a thickness of 40 inches and is exposed Over a 

 considerable area. The ore from the Davis mine was shipped to 

 Poughkeepsie and other points. An analysis given by Putnam shows 

 the following percentages : 



Iron 43 • 76 



Phosphorus 1. 116 



Wells and EUingwood openings. Continuing westward from 

 the Davis mine, the outcrop of the ore bed comes out into the 

 Sauquoit valley and then turns upstream or southward to a point 

 beyond Chadwicks where it crosses the Sauquoit and follov/s a 

 nearly northerly course to a point about a mile west of Washington 

 Mills. Some ore has been taken out in the valley near Chadwicks, 

 but there are no extensive excavations until the outcrop is encoun- 

 tered along the highway from Washington Mills to Clinton. In 

 this stretch of about 4 miles the surface is quite level, with only a 

 gradual rise to the south, and a large area of the ore bed can be ex- 

 ploited by shallow workings. The outcrop has already been stripped 

 for much of the distance, as there are many places where the only 

 covering is soil and glacial materials. 



The Wells, situated in the eastern part of the town of Kirkland 

 about half way between Washington Mills and Clinton, is an open 

 cut extending along the outcrop for several hundred feet. It wis 

 once operated by the Franklin Iron Co. It was idle at the time of 

 Smock's report. The property now belongs to C. A. Borst of Clin- 

 ton. According to the descriptions of Putnam the ore as worked 

 averaged about 21 inches and was covered by 12 to 15 feet of shale 

 and gravel. An analysis of a sample from 400 tons showed the fol- 

 lowing percentage of iron and phosphorus. 



Iron 46 . 79 



Phosphorus .64 



East of the Wells open cut, there is about i mile of the outcrop 

 that has not been exploited, while beyond this interval an opening has 

 been made by C. A. Borst over a small area. 



The EUingwood opening adjoins the Wells on the west. An analy- 



