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for pumping and the long haulage are all against the successful 

 operation of the 'deposit. The mill is in fairly good condition except 

 that the machinery for final concentration has been removed. 



The Betsy Cook Property 



Located in the township of Ticonderoga 2 miles southeast of 

 Ironville within the Paradox Lake quadrangle, at a fork in the road 

 from Ironville to Echo lake (Worcester pond on the map). 



The prospect holes consist of a long chain of shallow pits running 

 northwesterly in a curved line. The southeast end is marked by a 

 short drift, opened from a pit 8 feet wide, located behind an 

 abandoned house, in a pyroxene-scapolite contact rock zone where 

 a member of the sedimentary series has been affected by contact with 

 a white granite. The sedimentary rocks here strike north 25 ° 

 west, but the direction changes rapidly to north 6o° west, eventually 

 becoming north 8o° west at the far end of the chain of pits. The 

 bed is nearly on edge, dipping 83 ° north 46 ° east at the drift. 



Geology. The graphite flakes, some of which are from one- 

 fourth to three-eighths of an inch in diameter, occur in a dense 

 green contact rock, usually badly weathered and stained brown 

 due to the oxidation of the contained sulphides. The exact nature 

 of the ore rock is complicated. It is chiefly composed of pyroxenes, 

 hornblende, plagioclase feldspar, pyrite, biotite and titanite. 



From a structural standpoint, we are probably dealing with an 

 anticline that pitches very strongly northward cut to pieces by the 

 granite which is usually bleached white on the line of contact. 



The outlook for the property is certainly not bright. In the 

 first place, the contact nature of the ore is against it; the presence 

 of the biotite is another difficulty and the steep dip of the rocks is 

 a third. It is fortunate for those interested that no mill was 

 constructed. 



The Towne Property 



This abandoned property lies in the township of Ticonderoga, just 

 south of the Crown Point-Ticonderoga boundary and on the border 

 between the Ticonderoga and Paradox Lake quadrangles. 



Pittsburgh capital became interested in the property and sunk a 

 shaft in 1902, but gave up the enterprise the following year and 

 moved to Overshot pond, operating under the name of the Columbia 

 Graphite Company. 



The workings consist of two openings about 6 rods apart. The 

 eastern one is the shaft, about 108 feet deep, vertical and sunk 



