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Jf. Greenwood township. 



This township lies on the north line of the county and 

 east of the Juniata river. It is bounded on the north by 

 Turkey ridge, on the west for the most part by the Juniata, 

 on the south by Buffalo mountain, and on the east by an 

 imaginary line which parts it from Liverpool. It contains 

 about 25 square miles. It is divided naturally into two 

 wide open valleys by the high and rugged Wild Cat ridge, 

 across which there is only one good road near the middle 

 of the toAvnship. 



Pfoutz's valley lies on the soft beds of the Clinton and 

 Onondaga shales and narrows to the eastward, where it ex- 

 tends into Liverpool township. 



It has no drainage system of its own. All its water- 

 courses that are large enough to require notice fall into Co- 

 calamus creek which enters the valley from Juniata county 

 through a gap in Turkey ridge, and leaves it to reach the 

 Juniata in Wild Cat valley. 



The eastern branch of the creek which drains the upper 

 end of the valley comes down from the high land on which 

 runs the line between Greenwood and Liverpool townships 

 and flows along the northern base of Wild Cat ridge until 

 it meets the larger branch coming down from Juniata county, 

 and both united skirt the range until they find a way 

 through it near Millerstown. Of this gap further mention 

 is made later. 



The soil of Pfoutz's valley is good, being for the most 

 part composed of the same shale that is so abundant in the 

 west of the county. Pfoutz's valley also contains part of 

 the most valuable stores of iron-ore now worked in Perry 

 county. Of good quality, yielding a high percentage of iron 

 lying in soft material, and at a convenient dip, these beds 

 of fossil ore can be profitably worked when no other vein 



