IRON ORES OF THE CLINTON FORMATION 6/ 



Openings in the town of Verona. In the interval of about 6 

 miles from Hecla works to Verona village the oolitic bed disappears, 

 or at least i^ is nowhere seen in the exposures. The next openings 

 to the west lie just north of Verona village on the Klein farm. The 

 bed is about i foot thick and of fossil character, resembling in ap- 

 pearance the red flux bed around Clinton. It lies beneath 5 or 6 

 feet of earth. The iron content is low, as shown by the following 

 analysis : 



Iron 21.85 



Phosphorus . 248 



West of Verona village, across the New York Central Railroad, 

 is the Cagwin farm, which is mentioned by Putnam as operated 

 under lease by the Onondaga Iron Co. The ore is 15 to 17 inches 

 thick and richer in iron than the eastern part of the same bed. An 

 analysis showed : 



Iron 40 . 27 



Phosphorus . 328 



The farms owned by M. Stevens, W. E. Dann and Timothy 

 Smith, near by, have furnished a limited amount of ore in the past. 



There has been no production of ore in this section for some 

 time. The fossil bed seems to have been discovered at an early 

 date, and was worked in places before 1830. The ore was used 

 mainly in the furnaces at Taberg, Constantia and Lenox, while in 

 later years some ore was shipped to Geddes, near Syracuse. 



Wayne county 



The belt of Clinton rocks crosses northern Wayne county in an 

 east-west direction. The ore outcrop is encountered in the towns of 

 Wolcott, Huron, Sodus, Williamson and Ontario. The mine work- 

 ings are entirely of open-cut character, situated on the outcrop or 

 near by, where the maximum covering of soil and rock does not ex- 

 ceed 25 feet. The ore belt, so far as it has been located, is shown on 

 the maps facing pages 56 and 70. 



The discovery of the hematites in the county dates back to the 

 opening of the last century. Hall records that ore was dug in the 

 town of Ontario during the War of 181 2 and carried to Auburn for 

 grinding into paint. Spafford's Ga.'^etccr, published in tR2|. refers 



