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GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 



Analyses of "Sour Apple" Orb. 



No. 1, Wesley Moore's. 



No. 2, from Harper's farm. 



No. 3, ore reported seven feet above the Norris coal at Moxahala. 



No. 1 and No. 2 by Prof. Wormley; No. 3 by E. S. Gregory. 



A partial analysis of a sample of this ore from Sunday Creek gave 

 43 06 per cent, of iron. In placjs this ore will contain too much phos- 

 phorus, but it often appears promising. Where I have seen it, it is 

 nodular, but further explorations may reveal it in a regular layer. South 

 of New Lexington considerable quantities of it may be obtained by easy 

 stripping. 



The next ore of importance above the "sour apple '' ore is the Besse- 

 mer ore. This has its most marked development at Bessemer, Athens 

 county. At tJio Akron {urL.tvr- ■. ■-.,■, ncr, Ibe ore is, by instrumental 

 measurement, eighty-three feet a^ove the floor of the Nelsonville coal. 

 A little above the ore is seen at one point a seam of coal believed to be 

 the Bayley's Run seam. At the outcrop the ore is nodular, but a little 

 drifting reveals a layer of blue carbDnato, which, at one point, I found 

 to be two feet seven inches thick. Resting upion this layer are thickly 

 packed nodules of ore/ the mass averaging, according to Mr. Thomas 

 Black, one foot six inches in thickness. The ore is generally more or 

 less oxydized on the outcrop, but in the drifts becomes hard and blue. 

 At iirst it was supposed that the overlying nodules were chiefly com- 

 posed of carbonate of lime; indeed they were called ''lime bowlders," 

 and were to be used in the furnaces rather as a flux than an ore, but 

 it is reported that they have been found, by trial, to be a useful ore. I 

 have no analyses of the Bessemer ore at this place. The ore is silicious, 



