ARTK^LE III. 



THE STALEY'S CREEK AND NICK'S CREEK IRON ORE REGION. 

 BY BENJAMIN SMITH LYMAN. 



AVITH A MAP. 



(Read before the American Philosophical Society, Oct. 4, 1872.) 



The Staley's Oreeh and Nick's Creeh Iron Region, near Marion, Smyth County, Vir- 

 ginia ; according to a Bough Survey made in 1866 hy Benjamin S7nith Lyman. 



Situation, 



Lay of the Land. 



Geology. 



Structure. 



Rocks. 



Old Mountain Ore Bed. 

 Corbet Ore Bed. 



Thomas Ore Bed. 



Cole Ore Bed. 



Mode of Occurrence. 



Yield. 



Wood. 



Iron Works. 



M-ap. 



JSITITATION. 



The Staley's (/reek and Xick's Creek Iron Region (counting in it the whole of 

 the Thomas 5,000 acre tract and the Camphell Main Tract, parts of which are strictly 

 not upon the waters of those creeks) lies in the form nearly of a parallelogram about 

 two miles and a-half wide from north-northwest to south-southeast and about nine 

 miles long from east-northeast to west-southwest, containing al^out twenty-two 

 square miles and a-half, or 14,300 acres; with the northwestera corner of tlie parallelo- 

 gram about two miles south of the village of Marion, Smyth County, southwestern 

 Yirginia. Marion is on the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, 160 miles from Lynch- 

 burg and 174 miles from Knoxville. The region contains, besides the Thomas tract 

 of 5,000 acres at the western end : east of that, the G. H. Williams (400 acre) tract 

 and a ninety acre tract claimed by A. II. Campbell to lie north of G. H. William's 

 tract between it and the eastern part of the Thomas tract; still east of these tracts 

 the Crochett 1141 acre tract on the north, the S. M. Williams 400 acre tract and the 



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