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Valley, and I adopt his numbering of the ores, as amended by Mr. 

 Nichols in his chart, both in this description and in the section given on 

 a previous page. 



Prof. Weethee made the shaft ore— the equivalent of the Moxahala 

 ore — his No. 1, and from thence carried his series to the top of the hill. 

 I find that Mr. Nichols, in his charts, has made the ore next below the 

 Great Vein, which has no outcrop on these lands. No. 1. So that his 

 iiumbers, minus one, represent Prof. "Weethee's numbers. In the shales 

 directly aboTe the Great Vein, and in the interval between it. and the 

 " Baird ore," there are important ores which are quite persistent and 

 deserving of a place in the series. This numbering is, however, pro- 

 visional, and can be only temporary. A revision of this report, or a new 

 report altogether, made under better auspices when all the ores are thor- 

 oughly opened and tested, will revise the system and give permanent 

 names and numbers to the ores. 



Ore No. 2 is the Moxahala ore. It is located from fifteen to twenty- 

 eight feet below the Bayley's Run coal, resting on a heavy body of lime- 

 stone, and has been pronounced by experienced iron manufacturers a 

 valuable ore. It is a calcareo-silicious ore, massive and at the Blonden 

 shaft measures four feet in thickness, according to the report of .those 

 who sunk the shaft. On Fraction 31, Section 15, Trimble township, on 

 H. Johnson's land, it is exposed in the bed of the stream two feet nine 

 inches in thickness, resting on four feet of lime rock ; the ore is ten feet 

 below the Bayley's Run coal, which is here four feet eleven inches thick, 

 but has the appearance of being below its proper horizon. Massive slips 

 upon the slopes of the hills are throughout this whole region so numer- 

 ous that there is great difficulty in securing accurate measurements of 

 the intervals between the pre and coal beds, and the measurements re- 

 ported can be verified only after the regular opening of the mineral 

 deposits. The ore at this place shows excellent characteristics, and is 

 apparently richer in iron than at the shaft, when analysis of a single 

 specimen showed twenty-five per cent. The ore can be mined with the 

 limestone which underlies it, both being above drainage in the deepest 

 valley. 



Ore No. 3 is from one to six feet below the Bayley's Run coal. Its out- 

 crops, where observed, show a maximum thickness of thirteen inches of 

 a clay-iron stone, in small nodules, well oxydized, and what is often 

 called in this neighborhood a siderite. Taking this term as a designa- 

 tion of the carbonate of the protoxide, nearly all the ores, when not sub- 

 jected to atmospheric influences, are siderites, a greater or less portion of 

 the base being replaced by lime, manganese, and magnesia, and mechan- 



