HOCKING VALLEY. 



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on the surface of which small fragments of rich ore are abundant, indi- 

 cating that thorough exploration will be rewarded by the discovery of 

 important ore deposits. Mr. Brooks reports a valuable ore on Section 19, 

 Ward township, at from one hundred and seventy-five to two hundred 

 feet above the Great Vein, and one on Section 29, York township, at an 

 elevation of from one hundred and forty to one hundred and fifty feet 

 above the Great Vein. The last is doubtless the same ore as the brown 

 oxide mentioned above, the other an ore in the ferruginous shales below 

 the upper ore of the section. 



On Section 16, Ward township, an ore is reported about one hundred 

 and eighty feet above the Great Vein, three to four feet thick, in large 

 bowlders, on the outside a rich sesquioxide. New deposits and new 

 openings are reported so often that it is impossible to personally inspect 

 them all without delaying indefinitely the publication of this report. 



The following analyses of the ores of this part of the field have been 

 made for this report by Spencer B. Newberry, of Cleveland. Other 

 analyses have been promised by the owners of diflferent mining proper- 

 ties, and it was hoped that they would be obtained in time for insertion 

 here: 



No. 1, Baird ore, Section 29, York township. 



No. 2, Baird ore, Section 29, York township, oxydized. 



No. 3, Limestone ore. Section 19, Ward township. 



No. 4, Limestone ore, Section 19, Ward township, ontcrop. 



No. 5, below Great Vein. Section 19, Ward township. 



No. 6, Orbiston, oxydized. 



No. 7, below Great Vein, Section 29, York township. 



LIMESTONES. 



The limestones of this field have been only incidentally mentioned in 

 the preceding pages, because a few lines of description will suffice for the 



