SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT— HOCKING VALLEY. 863 



Manganese 2.00 



Lime phosphate 0.54 



Lime carbonate 0.91 



Magnesia carbonate 0.83 



Sulphur 0.00 



Total 100.03 



Metallic iron 52.76 



Phosphoric acid 0.25 



This is one of the best ores to be found in the district. 



Several furnaces are expecting to draw their chief supply of ore from 

 the Baird seam — the Thomas, Winona, and Bessie Furnaces on the line 

 of the railroad from Logan to Staitsville, and Crafts Furnace at the 

 mouth of Little Monday. The ore is everywhere to be found in the high 

 grounds between the valley of Monday Creek and the Hocking River. 

 The Bessie Furnace, near Straitsville, will obtain ore chiefly from the 

 lands of the Company west of Monday Creek. Explorations for the Baird 

 ore on the hill n ,rth of the furnace revealed the ore in nodular form dis- 

 tributed in a three feet bed of fire-clay. I am indebted to Mr. Benjamin 

 Marshall, one of the proprietors of the furnace, for a carefully measured 

 section. 



FT. IH. 



1. Nelsonville or Great seam of coal. 



2. Fire-clay 6 



3. Kidney ore 1 



4. Shale 3 



5. Coal 6 



6. Shale 16 



7. Gray carbonate of iron, irregular.. 4tol0 



9. Sandstone. • 9 



10. Fire-clay, with nodules of ore ^ 3 



11. Sandstone 34 



12. Fossiliferous limestone 1 



13. Chiefly sandstone 2 



14. Coal 2 6 



15. Interval not exposed - 31 6 



16. Limestone, foBsiliferouB 1 2 



17. Coal - 4 



18. Interval to top of boriBg 10 to 15 



19. From top of well to ore 54 9 



20. Iron ore * 



21. Coal - • • S 



22. Interval • ^ ^ 



23. Ore • ^ ^ 



24. Sand-rock. 



No. 10 represents the horizon of the Baird ore. No. 12, a fossiliferous 

 limestone seventy-two f eet and ten inches below the Nelsonville seam, 



