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Two other beds^occur in this vicinity; one is owned by Mr, 
Cook, the other by Messrs. Flack & Ransom. Both these will 
eventually yield large quantities of ore, but have not yet been ex- 
tensively worked. A forge in the vicinity of each bed is supplied 
with ore, and a considerable quantity sold to the proprietors of oth- 
er forges at a distance from them. From the latter bed ore is 
taken to supply a forge at Willsborough, more than 20 miles distant. 
At the distance of four or five miles N. E. of the Arnold ore 
beds, Messrs. McDonald & Tomlinson have opened a bed of ore 
of fine quality, which promises to be extensive; the character of 
the ore resembles that from the Arnold beds. The indications of 
ore, are not, however, confined to a single bed, but extend over a 
considerable surface. Further investigations will, probably, more 
fully develope the resources of this region. 
I visited a bed of ore a few miles from Plattsburgh, up the 
Saranac river. The ore is very similar to that at Clintonville, but 
the bed had not then been opened to any considerable extent; pre- 
parations for mining and working the ore, were, however, com- 
menced, and from its favorable location in regard to wood and 
water power, together with facilities for transportation and its 
proximity to the village of Plattsburgh, which is fast becoming an 
important manufacturing place, there can be no reason why iron 
may not be extensively and profitably manufactured at this place. 
The iron mines along the lake offer very great advantages for 
transportation, but have this disadvantage, that, as the land is 
more cleared, the wood will become sooner exhausted, than if far- 
ther from the lake, where the country is comparatively uninhabit- 
ed. These advantages and disadvantages can be readily estimat- 
ed by any one who is desirous of investing capital in what is, and> 
from the rapidly increasing demand for iron, will continue to be^ 
one of the most profiatble branches of manufacture in the country. 
This kind of ore is wrought in several places in Moriah; and 
the forges for several miles around are supplied with ore from this 
place. There are four beds of ore in this town which have been 
worked: besides these, there is an extensive one at Crown-Point. 
The most extensive beds of this kind of ore in the district, and 
perhaps in the world, are found at Newcomb, in the vicinity of 
Lake Sandford, but a few miles from the source of the Hudson 
