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Rutgers Vein. 
This vein is eight miles west from Chntonville, and like most of the 
veins in this vicinity, occupies a ridge of one of the primary ranges. It 
has not been explored to a great extent. Its appearance is loam at the 
surface, but no more so than many veins vi^hich by farther pursuit, have 
proved to furnish an abundance of ore. The gangue or mineral matter 
associated v^ith the ore, is very peculiar ; and so far as appearance and 
some of its physical characters may be relied upon, is a new mineral 
substance. Its characteristics have not been sufficiently tested to de- 
termine this point. 
The whole width of the Rutgers vein is about ten feet. It pursues 
a parallel course with the Cook and Arnold veins, and has been traced 
about one mile. It is probably an extensive vein. It has not furnish- 
ed an iron so valuable as most of the other ores ; it has therefore been 
abandoned. 
Winter Ore. 
This ore has generally been considered to be deposited in the form 
of a bed, in consequence of its appearing as thick plate overspreading 
several square rods of the rock with which it is associated ; or it appears 
as though it was deposited horizontally on the rock, like an overflowing 
melted mass of lava. The opinion that it is a bed is questionable, in- 
asmuch as it presents no phenomena really distinct from the ordinary 
veins of this section of country. The rich layer of ore was 2 or 3 feet 
thick. The ore does not disappear beneath, but it is underlaid by a 
very lean mass in which the particles of ore are disseminated. The 
whole amount of valuable ore extended forty feet in one direction, and 
one hundred in another. The whole of this -mass has been removed, 
and the surface now exposed presents an unequal distribution of ore, 
but in no place an amount worth the expense of raising. It presents, 
however, the same general airangement of ore as all the veins, that of 
parallel bands or stripes. In some portions the ore is in the proportion 
of one half, the other half being white flint. Considered as a vein, its 
strike or course is west of north, and its dip, west. Ten or fifteen feet 
beneath the solid plate of ore, a passage has been made in the solid 
rock for at least one hundred feet. It commences on the northern slope 
and runs nearly south. No ore was discovered by this procedure, and 
it could not have been reached, even if there is an abundance of ore, in 
consequence of the dip of the vein ; the entrance into the rock being 
made on the eastern side of the vein to which its course is parallel. 
