SUPPLEMENTAL EEPOKT — HOCKING VALLEY, 



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Near Buckingham, on Upper Sunday Greek, are places where the Nel- 

 son villa coal is cut away, and the eroded channel filled with unstratified 

 blue clay. In this clay are masses of iron ore, some of them quite large. 

 The ore has never been analyzed, but much of it has a silicious appear- 

 ance. The smaller nodules seen in the bed of the stream, appear to be 

 richer in iron and less silicious. It should be stated that the cut-away 

 places above mentioned are distinct from the eroded channel through 

 the coal seam a little west, which is filled with a coar«e sand rock. 



At one or two points in the Upper Sunday Creek Valley, I have noticed 

 nodular ores in the stratified shales above the horizon of the Nelsonville 

 seam, but at no place could they be profitably mined. Near Millerstown, 

 a layer of ore five inches thick, and four feet below the Norris seam of 

 coal, was seen. The ore at that point was a blue carbonate. No analysis 

 has been made of it. 



In the Upper Sunday Creek region, and northward to New Lexington 

 we find an ore horizon a little above that of the Norris coal. This ore is 

 locally called the " sour apple " ore, from an apple tree near one of the 

 exposures of this ore, the apples of which were qi^ite disappointing to a 

 party of explorers. It is about fifteen feet above the Norris coal. On 

 the farm of Wesley Moore, in Pike township, Perry county, this ore is, 

 by barometer, sixty-three feet above the NelsonVille coal. Here the ore 

 is nodular and embedded in white clay. The nodules are scattered through 

 two feet eight inches of clay, and if in solid mass would form a layer of 

 from eight to ten inches in thickness. On the land of Mr. Harper, a lit- 

 tle south of New Lexington, the same ore is in good development. 



