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Putnam creek and Bear pond outlet are rough and would require 

 considerable impiovement before being available. The property 

 is a long distance from any railroad, the nearest station being at 

 Ticonderoga, 9 miles away. 



' For success in operation it is essential that the property should 

 be worked on a large scale and the milling and refining problems be 

 solved by careful experimentation. The graphite product, also, 

 might well be converted into merchantable forms at the plant. 



MILLIMETER 

 13J PYRITES MlCROCLINEl?^ MUSCOVITE 

 GALENA IgglANDESlNEggl APATITE 

 ETlPPYRITEO QUARTZ ~Y^T\\ 



Fig. 14 Camera-lucida drawing of microscopic thin 

 section of Rock Pond " arkosite " from head of 

 pit, showing the two generations of pyrite and in- 

 troduced galena coating the pyrite. X 100. Speci- 

 men 681. H. L. Ailing, 1918. 



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" The plans for developing the property include erection of a 

 mill at the mine for rough concentrating and the erection of a finish- 

 ing mill at Crown Point village. Both of these mills can be run 

 by water power, and electric power can be generated for the cheap 

 operating of the mine machinery." 1 



The Rock pond property. All that remains of this enterprise 

 today is a big hole in the ground from which a trickle of brick-red 



Bastin, E. S., Mineral Resources, U. S. G. S., 1908, 2:728. 



