IRON ORE, LIMESTONE, AND COAL. F 3 . 95 



limestone ore by Mr. A. S. McCreath has given the follow- 

 ing results : 



Analysis of hard fossil limestone ore, one mile west of 

 rieer at Miller stown. 



Iron 5.640 



Phosphorus, 065 



Lime, 41.730=74.518 Carb. of Lime. 



Siliceous matter, 10.880 



Extent of these Beds. — As regards the extent of these 

 Milierstown ore beds over Perry county little that is defi- 

 nite can at present be said. The value of ore in the west, 

 far from a railway, is so small that there is little induce- 

 ment to search for it. These three beds certainly make no 

 conspicuous show anywhere except near Milierstown. 

 Traces of soft fossil ore were shown to me in the neighbor- 

 hood of Marysville by Mr. A. Seidel, and the hard ferrif- 

 erous limestone is reported on Bowers' mountain and per- 

 haps in one or two other places in the southwest. But in 

 others there are no indications of either the soft or hard 

 ore. and the section given in the report on Toboyne town- 

 ship is conclusive against their existence at that place. 

 There is, however, ample room for them in places not yet 

 examined where the ground is covered with wood or un- 

 cultivated, for there is little prospect of finding surface in- 

 dications of so soft an ore except through the plow. 



The Sand. Vein Ore Bed. — This bed, as may be seen from 

 the section at Milierstown already given, is the highest of 

 all those occurring there and is separated from the others 

 by the ore sand rock and shales. Like them it is thin, sel- 

 dom exceeding fourteen inches in thickness, but so far as 

 I have been able to examine the ground it is much more 

 persistent over the county. Its quality is good, as the fol- 

 lowing analysis by Mr. A. S. McCreath will show, the pro- 

 portion of phosphorus being, however, rather high. The 

 specimen came from the mine of Messrs. B. G. Mush k Co. 

 on the southeast side of Tuscarora mountain, one fourth of 

 a mile north of Milierstown : * 



♦See Report M 3 , 1881, page 37. 



