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small  amount  of  development  work  lias  been  done  1,000  feel  south 
of  the  main  line.  In  this  distance  the  ore  is  nearly  continuous  with 
apparently  hut  slight  interruption  by  faults. 
North  of  the  mine,  across  the  creek,  the  main  vein  has  been  opened 
lor-  several  hundred  feet  and  a  good  deal  of  ore  has  been  won  by  open- 
pit  mining.  In  the  northern  part  of  the  open-cut  work,  about  20(1 
paces  from  the  creek,  there  is  a  well-pronounced  fault,  with  a  nearly 
east-west  strike,  by  which  the  ore  is  thrown  to  the  west  a  slight  dis- 
tance. About  100  paces  still  farther  north  there  is  another  east- west 
fault,  by  which  the  ore  is  thrown  some  distance  to  the  east.  Beyond 
this  point  the  ore,  which  has  previously  appeared  on  the  west  side  of 
the  ridge,  is  found  only  on  the  east  side  of  the  ridge.  Other  open 
ings  Lave  been  made1  on  this  northward  extension  from  Kmauhee 
nearly  to  Sycamore.  The  last  place  where  the  ore  was  exposed  along 
this  nearly  continuous  line  was  just  west  of  the  group  of  houses  at 
Sycamore,  southwest  of  the  cotton  mill. 
These  pits  had  been  dug  for  a  long  time  and  had  caved,  so  that  the 
entire  thickness  of  the  ore  was  perhaps  not  visible 'in  all  of  them. 
There  were,  however,  few  if  any  places  north  of  the  open  cut  on  the 
north  side  of  Emauhee  Creek  where  a  greater  thickness  than  1  feel  of 
ore  was  observed.  The  ore  in  these  pits  was  much  redder  than  thai 
exposed  in  either  the  Mesaba  or  Emauhee  mines.  It  seems  evidentM 
however,  that  this  lead  is  the  same  as  the  main  lead  at  Kmauhee, 
which  is  also  correlated  with  the  eastern  vein  at  Mesaba. 
The  second  vein  at  the  Emauhee  has  not  been  worked  at  all.  It 
lies  west  of  the  main  vein  and  Is  of  much  poorer  quality.  This  ore  is 
an  impure  iron-bearing  sandstone.  The  vein  is  wider  than  the  first, ; 
averaging  about  7  feet.  This  measurement  is  approximate  only,  and 
can  not  be  made  exact  owing  to  the  lack  of  development  and  thej 
poorly  defined  contact  between  the  ore  and  the  country  rock.  Near 
Emauhee  this  vein  seldom  runs  more  than  30  to  34  per  cent  metallic 
iron. 
In  addition  to  the  Mesaba  and  Emauhee  mines  there  are  a  number 
of  other  places  where  gray  ore  lias  been  mined  on  a  small  scale  in  the 
past.  At  Columbiana  a  few  hundred  tons  were  shipped  a  long  time 
ago.  At  Andeluvia  Mountain,  according  to  McCalley/'  about  100 
tons  of  ore  were  mined  and  shipped.  In  the  Weewoka  Hills,  nearf 
Heacock  and  Riser  mountains,  also,  a  small  amount  of  ore  has  been 
mined  and  smelted. 
Active  prospecting  is  now  in  progress  only  in  the  Weewoka  Hills 
near  Heacock  and  Riser  mountains.     The  Heacock  property  has  been 
exploited  by  numerous  pits,  so  that  the  general  character  of  the  ore  I 
and  its  width,  length,  and  value  have  been  more  or  less  completely 
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