98 F 2 . REPORT OF PROGRESS. E. W. OLAYPOLE. 



(4.) Near Little Germany. 

 Sou tli west of Little Germany, in Bell's hill. 

 North of Little Germany. 



(5.) Pisgah hills. 

 Half a mile southwest of Oakgrove furnace. 



(6.) Above Adams' Glen school-house, near Landisbnrg. 



The above list does not include all the places where iron 

 ore has been taken from the Marcellus hematite bed, but 

 these are given to show its general distribution over the 

 county. In other places — as near Gibson's rock — there is 

 no sign of its presence in the usual place. Any one will be 

 able to discover by reference to the map accompanying this 

 report the place where its outcrop should be looked for 

 along the line which separates the Oriskany sandstone and 

 the Marcellus black shale. 



At the present time, 1883, owing to the low price of iron 

 ore (at the only furnaces now in blast in the county — Dun- 

 cannon and Newport — about $3 a ton,) this bed of ore is 

 mined at only the two most favorably situated places in the 

 county, the Clauser and Reeder works, from both of which 

 it is sent to Newport. The roads from these points are 

 short, and no ridges intervene. Where these advantages 

 are not present the mining is now attended with loss, con- 

 sequently all the other works have been abandoned. 



As in the case of- the soft Millerstown fossil, so also in 

 the case of this ore a great change takes place below the 

 access of surface water. Down to that level the ore is a 

 loose hematite — a wash ore — bedded in clay. Below that 

 it is a hard blue carbonate of iron, heavy and massive. As 

 this ore needs roasting at the furnace to expel the carbonic 

 acid before it can be smelted, it is of course less valuable, 

 and less is paid for it. It is therefore not worth following 

 to the d«'<'}>, and no attempt is usually made to take it 

 out in Perry count}'. 



The following analyses, by Mr. A. S. McCreath, of samples 

 from the Clauser works, two miles south of Newport, repre- 

 sent the value of this ore and its variation :* 



♦Sec Report M 3 , page 32, where other analyses will also be found. 



