REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR AND STATE GEOLOGIST 1903 159 



yielded 1000 tons annually.i There is. also a deposit of garnet 

 near Chester Pa. In North Carolina large deposits of garnet 

 were worked in connection with the deposits of corundum. 

 These yielded the first American garnet, but were abandoned as 

 of inferior quality when the New York State material appeared 

 in the market. Other deposits, are said to occur in Georgia and 

 Alaska, but no definite information can be obtained about them. 

 Maine has supplied a very limited amount of inferior material, 

 and Connecticut for a time competed in the production of garnet 

 for sandpaper used in the shoe trade. In 1898 Connecticut 

 together with Pennsylvania furnished 1200 tons of garnet, but 

 New York garnet has gained great favor in the market owing to 

 its superior hardness.^ 



In New York, garnet is found, in Warren county, in the valley 

 of the upper Hudson river and in Essex county on the borders 

 of the Adirondack region. These deposits were described by Mr 

 Verplanck Colvin in his report on the New York State Land Sur- 

 vey for 1896 as follows .-s 



Garnet peak is the next summit northwesterly from the Black 

 Lagle, or northerly from Crow mountain, and its steep, gray 

 ledges are very noticeable on the easterly side of the Blue moun- 

 tain road at the summit, where the land begins to descend 

 northerly. In this vicinity are several mines of the mineral popu- 

 larly styled ''pocket garnet,'' the pockets being merelv large 

 crystals, sometimes quite regular in form, but often in lar^e 

 amorphous masses. In the adjacent part of the fourteenth town- 

 ship IS a mine, and a mill at which the mineral is separated. 



He describes the deposit on Gore mountain more particularly. 



These mines are, perhaps, the most remarkable of their kind 

 known; certainly the most notable in this Section of the oountrv 

 A zone perhaps 100 feet in thickness, richly charged with the 

 mineral, here extends along the northerly face of the mountain 

 at an elevation of about 2800 to 2900 feet above the sea The 



'N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 15. p. 553. 

 Min, Ind. 1896. v. 5. 

 'Min. Ind. 1897. 6:21. 

 ^Report of Superintendent of State Land Survey. 1896. p. 133-85. 



