﻿IRON 
  ORES 
  OF 
  THE 
  CLINTON 
  FORMATION 
  67 
  

  

  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 
  it 
  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> 
  g 
  5 
  

  

  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 
  1812 
  and 
  carried 
  to 
  Auburn 
  for 
  

   grinding 
  into 
  paint. 
  Spafford's 
  Gazeteer, 
  published 
  in 
  1824, 
  refers 
  

  

  