14 University Geological Survey of Kansas. 
‘In New York, Governor Crosby announced a discovery of 
lead ore in 1754. A vein of argentiferous galena was worked 
at Ancram, in Columbia county, before 1740, and quite ex- 
tensively afterward. A band of German miners opened a 
vein about the same time in Duchess county. In Ulster 
county the Ellenville mine was opened in 1820, and was 
worked during a number of years afterward, as well as other 
deposits in the same county. The Rossie mine of St. Law- 
rence county dates from 1825, and was worked during the 
immediately succeeding years, and again about 1852. In 
Sullivan county, the Shawangunk or Montgomery zinc mines 
started in 1857, but, after a few years of operation, were 
abandoned until 1852. During the past 40 years little lead 
mining has been done in the state. 
‘“The Connecticut lead deposits, near Middletown, were 
apparently known early in the seventeenth century, and were 
probably worked by John Winthrop about 1650." They had 
certainly been mined before the revolution. 
‘*In Massachusetts, the existence of lead ore was reported 
as early as 1632,” but the first notice of mining was in 1765, 
at Southampton, about ten years after the discovery of the 
deposits there. At Worcester, ore was dug about the same 
time. Operations at Southampton were resumed in 1809, 
and continued 20 years by one miner; in 1850 a little ad- 
ditional work was done. The Northampton vein was 
worked a little during 1854. The Newburyport deposit was 
not discovered until 1874, 
‘““The New Hampshire deposits at Eaton were discovered 
in 1826, and were worked at intervals during the next 30 
years. The Shelburn mines were operated between the years 
1846 and 1849. 
‘‘In Maine, the Lubec mines were opened in 1832, and 
small quantities of ore were produced. ‘These and other 
New England deposits have dropped out of notice during the 
last 50 years, with the development of the richer and much 
more extensive ore bodies of the Mississippi valley and of the 
11. Pulsifer, Wm. H.: See note 10. 
12. Bishop, J. L., M. D.: History of American Manufactures, vol. I, p. 493. 
