18 GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 
here is five feet in thickness, with three feet of mountain ore over it. 
On the farm of Hugh Kelley an outcrop of the blackband, thin and 
near the surface, is seen. 
The most important deposits of blackband ore in the county are in the 
townships of Auburn, Bucks, Salem, and Oxford. Of these, the first four 
lie on the highlands west of the Tuscarawas, and are drained by Sugar 
Creek, Stone Creek, and Oldtown and Buckhorn Creeks. Here the land 
in some places rises to the height of one hundred and twenty-five feet 
above the blackband horizon, and quite a number of more or less exten- 
sive basins, or patches of ore, are known to exist, some of which have 
been worked for twelve or fifteen years. The most important deposit 
seems to be that of Mr. A. Wilhelmi, in section 24, Auburn township, 
where the ore has been taken from seven or eight acres, and thirty or 
more acres still remain. This constitutes perhaps the largest continuous 
deposit yet known. The average thickness of the ore here is from five 
and one-half to six feet, though a maximum thickness of eleven feet of 
good ore has been met with in the workings. 
A section which I took at Wilhelmi’s bank, is as follows: 
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At another opening the section exposed is— 
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Qo MOUNTAIN MOPS ea b:S ek sel ete SU Re Rn Slr 1 ies ano 2-24 
356s La kam Ove bee 5, ses Ses eee Ne cea as mae es Ua da a 24 
Ar COB iS che eS a hal fo ok EER RL ES CG aes rl es vn aN cope AE gE ee ee 14 
Here the mountain ore is seen to run out to an edge. 
There are several limited deposits of blackband in the vicinity of Wil- 
helmi’s mine, and between that point and New Philadelphia, belonging 
to Gabriel Shull, U. Shaw, and others. <A large amount of ore has been 
taken from Wilhelmi’s mine, for the most part manufactured in Massillon, 
and has been proved to be of excellent quality. Its composition in the 
natural state is given in the tables below. Like all blackband ore, it is 
calcined with great facility, scarcely requiring any other fuel than that 
contained in itself. When so calcined, on an average two tons of ore 
will make a ton of iron which closely resembles Scotch pig, is used for 
the same purposes, and is equally esteemed. 
