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liable. On Wheelabout Creek, in Madison township, it is also ex- 
tremely uncertain, but both of these stations are near the northern 
limit of the main sheet. In Brown township it has passed the limit, 
and beyond Hope Furnace neither limestone nor ore have been found 
to the eastward. Northward, the limestone is small and uncertain 
through Swan and Starr townships, but its ore is persistent and valu- 
able. This part of the field has been previously described. 
The following notes indicate the chief centers of past and present 
production : 
LAWRENCE County, 
Hamilton township, section 8—western outcrop. 
“ s near Newcastle—Ore irregular (near boundary of want 
already noticed.) 
Upper township, largely worked. 
Elizabeth township— 
Township 2, section 3, 4, 8, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21. 
Township 3, “ 31. 
Decatur township— Universal. 
Washington township— Universal. 
Symmes township, section 8—Present in small area, not mined. 
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Scioto CounrTy. 
Green township—l2 miles northeast of Haverhill, western outcrop. 
es ss Ohio Furnace lands, western outcrop. 
Vernon “ Sections 23, 24, 25, 26, 34, 
Bloom Section 30, western outcrop. 
JACKSON County. 
Jefferson township—Sections 15, 24, 36, ete.; occupies one-half of township, very 
largely worked. 
Madison township—Sections 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 15. 
Bloomfield ‘“ 11, 12, 13, 14, 29, ete. 
Lick Se is 23, 35, 36. 
Milton ng e 2, 4, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 28, 30, 35, 36. 
GALLIA Counry. 
Greenfield township—Sections 9, 11, 16, 20, 30. 
Raccoon township—Struck in boring in section 19, at Centerville. 
