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dred yards wide. The ore is a dark brown with glossy black and yellow 

 partings, and lies in layers of from six to eight inches in thickness, the whole 

 body being about ten feet thick on the Hightower land. Across the Bowen 

 and on the western end of the Davis headrights, the quality remains the same, 

 but the thickness is not more than three or four feet, and on the Bowen it is 

 broken and fragmentary. This irregularity of thickness is apparently due to 

 the fact that a break occurs on the Hightower land and the Bowen and Davis 

 lands are considerably lower. It is possible the ore on these last two head- 

 rights belongs to the lower division of the Hightower ridge. 



Hightower. Bowen. Davis. 



a_ , c 



Fig. 1. 

 a, Yellow sand. b. Laminated ore. c, Fragmentary ore. 



Due south of the Robert Hightower headright lies the Peter Pinchum 

 headright. On this land, there is a ridge of siliceous ore or ferruginous sand- 

 stone, extending across the middle of the north half of the headright for 

 nearly a quarter of a mile and from one hundred to two hundred yards wide. 



This ridge has a face height of about fifty feet, which is covered with huge 

 blocks, some of which measure ten feet in length and from six to eight feet 

 in width and having an average thickness of three feet. It will probably be 

 found fit for mining to a depth of thirty feet for some distance into the hill. 

 This ore is too siliceous to be used alone for any iron work, but may be found 

 suitable for mixing with some of the less siliceous ores. 



Commencing on the south side of the John Decker headright, near the 

 southeast corner, and extending in a northwesterly direction for nearly a 

 mile and a half through the Decker and northern portion of the Seth Shel- 

 don headright as far as the south side of the B. M. D. Burrows headright, 

 there is a ridge of yellow sand covered with a heavy deposit of broken lami- 

 nated ore of the massive and crumbly varieties, mingled with broken ferrugi- 

 nous sandstones. These pieces rarely exceed a foot in length, lie closely 

 packed together, and form a solid iron covering for this ridge. The thick- 

 ness of this ore covering averages from five to six feet. 



On the hills around Hynson's Springs lies a covering of laminated ore of 

 the siliceous and crumbly characters. These ores appear to lie on either side 

 of the hill tops. Although not exclusively confined to any special location, 

 the crumbly ore is found in greater profusion on the western than on the top 

 or eastern side of the hills. The same peculiarity is noticed also on the 

 Barnes hill, on the west side of the Ephraim Tally headright about a mile 



