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gained by stripping, none of which will be reached in drift mines. A 
tram-road connects the mine with the railroad, 3 mile distant. The 
underlying coal is 22 inches thick, and quite aisnaralls 
In sections 5 and 6, the Everhart hill has produced quite a large 
amount of ore for the Glasgow furnace. ‘The haul was a long one, how- 
ever, and the mine was thus at a great disadvantage. ‘The ore was 
approved in all respects. The Wiandt hill, in section 14, is nearly ex- 
hausted. Its ore was taken by the Glasgow furnace. 
The J. S. Dye ore hills were owned by the Glasgow Furnace Com- 
pany. There are two of them, and, as the map indicates, they are the 
only deposits of this kind within a radius of several miles. The ore is 
not at its best in these banks, but it holds well in thickness, ranging 
from 8 to 11 feet. The underlying coal is 2 feet thick and sulphurous. 
This locality has been rendered famous by the most expensive iron- 
making plant yet made in the State, with one or two exceptions. 
Scotch capital was brought in for the erection of two large blast-fur- 
naces, which were furnished with the most approved equipment in every 
respect. 
The furnaces were located between two railroads, but at such 
distances from each as to make a wagon haul impracticable. A branch 
was finally run from one of the railroads to the furnaces. 
The natural water supply of the furnace site was entirely inadequate, 
and the stock for the furnace was finally pumped from the Tuscarawas 
River, a mile distant, and 100 feet or so below. The furnace lands 
held no coal that could by any possibility furnish an iron-making fuel, 
and they had no limestone of any sort. Two small tracts of blackband 
were tributary to the furnace, but aside from these, no ore was within 
reach, except as it was brought by rail or by a long wagon haul. Not 
only was the supply thus restricted, but the ore of the furnace tract is 
said to have been inferior in quality to that of many of the banks of 
the county. 
7 The failure that was foreordained for a furnace without ore, or fuel, 
or flux, or water, or railroad facilities, was not long in coming, and 
there is scarcely one stone now left upon another to mark the site where 
more than a million dollars was so unwisely placed that it could not by 
any possibility return profit to its investors. 
The next deposit’ of blackband, and the last in the Tyanaee 
field, is found in the southeast corner of Oxford township, on the head 
