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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  high 
  point 
  on 
  the 
  north. 
  At 
  the 
  southern 
  end 
  is 
  the 
  old 
  O'Neill 
  

   shaft, 
  now 
  used 
  for 
  pumping 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  fall 
  of 
  1907 
  tapped 
  by 
  the 
  

   northern 
  workings. 
  

  

  Two 
  hundred 
  feet 
  or 
  so 
  north 
  of 
  Cook 
  shaft, 
  is 
  the 
  Thompson, 
  

   long 
  abandoned, 
  and 
  beyond 
  this 
  an 
  interval 
  of 
  some 
  distance 
  with 
  

   no 
  workings. 
  Recently 
  diamond 
  drilling 
  has, 
  however, 
  revealed 
  

   ore, 
  which 
  may 
  in 
  time 
  be 
  worked. 
  The 
  hill 
  then 
  abruptly 
  drops 
  

   away 
  to 
  a 
  small 
  valley, 
  on 
  whose 
  northern 
  side 
  are 
  two 
  old 
  mines, 
  

   the 
  Hall 
  and 
  the 
  Sherman, 
  which 
  were 
  early 
  discovered 
  but 
  which 
  

   have 
  long 
  been 
  idle. 
  The 
  property 
  has 
  passed 
  to 
  Witherbee, 
  

   Sherman 
  & 
  Co., 
  and 
  has- 
  lately 
  been 
  drilled. 
  Ore 
  has 
  been 
  found 
  

   in 
  rocks 
  the 
  same 
  as 
  at 
  Mineville, 
  and 
  constitutes 
  a 
  reserve 
  for 
  

   the 
  future. 
  

  

  It 
  is 
  natural 
  to 
  consider 
  these 
  last 
  mentioned 
  beds 
  the 
  northern 
  

   extension 
  of 
  the 
  Smith 
  mine, 
  and 
  it 
  as 
  representing 
  the 
  Old 
  Bed 
  

   group, 
  farther 
  east 
  and 
  lower 
  down 
  than 
  the 
  Barton 
  hill-Fisher 
  

   hill-Burt 
  lot 
  series; 
  but 
  inasmuch 
  as 
  the 
  O'Neill 
  shaft 
  is 
  over 
  a 
  

   mile 
  from 
  the 
  last 
  exposure 
  of 
  the 
  Old 
  Bed 
  series 
  with 
  almost 
  no 
  

   outcrops 
  between, 
  and 
  in 
  rocks 
  that 
  are 
  practically 
  massive, 
  one 
  

   may 
  quite 
  as 
  well 
  regard 
  the 
  northern 
  ones 
  as 
  totally 
  distinct 
  ore 
  

   bodies. 
  Again 
  one's 
  train 
  of 
  thought 
  is 
  necessarily 
  influenced 
  by 
  

   the 
  sedimentary 
  or 
  igneous 
  views 
  of 
  origin. 
  The 
  axial 
  trend 
  of 
  

   the 
  Smith 
  mine 
  is 
  parallel 
  to 
  the 
  same 
  feature 
  in 
  all 
  the 
  others 
  

   to 
  the 
  south, 
  and 
  therefore 
  shows 
  the 
  same 
  great 
  structural 
  char- 
  

   acter, 
  presumably 
  due 
  to 
  folding 
  whose 
  compressive 
  strain 
  being 
  

   at 
  right 
  angles 
  to 
  these 
  axes, 
  operated 
  in 
  a 
  northwest, 
  southeast 
  

   direction. 
  

  

  Farther 
  on 
  to 
  the 
  north, 
  no 
  ore 
  is 
  known 
  for 
  2 
  or 
  3 
  miles, 
  and 
  

   then 
  the 
  beds 
  are 
  comparatively 
  thin 
  and 
  have 
  been 
  long 
  abandoned. 
  

  

  