kick's creek irox ore regiox. 



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outcrop. The outcrop south of the Poud Mountain Saddle seems to run from the 

 western edge of the Thomas tract four miles and a quarter easterly ; then to return 

 westerly four miles ; making for the whole length of the Pond Mountain outcrop a 

 length of eight miles and a quarter. jSTorth of that the bed appears not to rise any- 

 where to the surface ; so that the whole length of its outcrop within the region is 

 twenty-two miles and a half. It may seem useless perhaps to reckon the outcrop so 

 long when the bed has not been opened nor even its outcrop observed through a great 

 part of it, especially at its eastern end ; but the measurement serves to show at least 

 through what space it is worth while to search for the outci'op, although it is possible 

 that the bed may have thinned out and disappeared in some parts. On the other 

 hand it may lia^^e become enough thicker in the other parts to make up for any such 

 thinning out. 



The amount of ore in tons above the lowest water level of the region has been 

 calculated for one foot of average thickness of pure ore in the same manner as for the 

 Old Mountain Ore bed, and gives : in the Brushy Mountain part of the bed, on the 

 south side 4,150,000 tons ; in all 5,710,000 tons. In the Pond Mountain part of the 

 bed is found in like manner 2,660,000 tons. The whole amount of both parts of the 

 bed is then 8,370,000 tons per foot of average thickness. 



The average thickness of the bed in feet (the multiplier of these numbers of tons 

 to get the full amount of ore in the bed in this region above water level) is quite un- 

 known; but from the appearance of the outcrop on the bridle path, as the southern 

 side of the Pond Mountain, the bed would seem to have at least a couple of feet in 

 thickness of good, rich ore. 



THOMAS ORE BED, 



The Thomas ore bed has apparently been opened at several points in the region. 

 The largest and best opening of all is the Thomas ore bank on the Thomas tract, on 

 the Ore Knob, a small spur of the north side of Pond Mountain, about a mile and a 

 quarter east of the northwestern corner of the tract and of the region. The opening- 

 is an o]3en cut some ten feet wide running southeasterly about thirt}^ yards, apparently 

 almost at right angles with the strike; and there is from the northern end of the 

 cutting a similar cutting about as long running a little west of south. The ore is 

 exposed in the sides of these cuttings some ten feet in thickness in two or three solid 

 layers, and lies nearly flat, with the appearance of being at the gently rounded top of 

 a saddle ; but it is probably only a small saddle or roll upon the northern side of the 

 great saddle of Pond Mountain. The ore is also said to extend below the bottom of 

 the cutting and to be covered up there Avith rubbish, but it looks in the centre of the 

 saddle as if the ten feet were the full thickness of the ore, and as if there were clay 



