SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT — HOCKING VALLEY. 



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The Bessemer ore is reported by Mr. F. Baird on the lands of the Mon- 

 day Creek Irbn Company, but at tbetime of my visit the test pits, which 

 had revealed it, were not open. The same ore is reported at Carbon 

 H 11. On the coal lands of Peter Hayden, Esq., a somewhat remarkable 

 deposit of ore is found in the horizon of the Bessemer ore, eighty-seven feet 

 above the floor of the -Nelson ville coal. The usual limestone, three feet 

 thick, is seen twenty- two feet below the oje, and a little lower, is a 

 bituminous ehale with a thin band of coal representing the horizon of 

 the Norris coal. 



At several points the ore on the Bessemer level is well opened and ex- 

 posed. It is generally a dark red ore, well oxydized. In one hill the ore 

 ranges in thickness from one to four feet. Over it is a thin silicious 

 band four inches thick, and above this from two to twenty feet of clay, in 

 which are occasional nodules of ore — some quite large. In another hill 

 a pit revealed one foot eight inches of the same red chalky ore. 



In a third hill the ore is nodular, but still red. The nodules are im- 

 bedded in a fire-clay, and the clay sometimes forms a part of the nodules, 

 giving them a peculiar mottled appearance. Over these nodules is a layer 

 of light colored limestone, but this sometimes becomes nodular. There 

 is evidently a large quantity of the red ore on the estate. Two analyses 

 of the red ore have been made by Prof. Wormley with the following 

 results : 



Analyses of Pbtkk HAYDBys Red Orb. 



2. 



Specific gravity- 



Water combined 



SiUcions matter . 



Iron sesquioxide . . . . 



Alamina 



Oxide manganega 



Lime carbonate 



Lime phosptiate 



Magnesia carbonate 

 Sulphur 



2.558 



Total. 



Metallic iron — 

 Phosphoric acid 



Another sample partially analyzed in Pittsburgh gave thirty-five per 

 cent, of the lime and magnesia carbonates, with less silica and more iron. 



The phosphorus in one of the samples analyzed by Prof. Wormley is- 

 pretty large, but that in the other is quite small for an ore from our Ohio* 



