TUSCARAWAS COUNTY. _ 79 
Three miles west of Phillipsburg a deposit of blackband is leased and 
mined by Mr. H. Andemann, and the ore is also found in some other hills 
in the vicinity. Farther south, on the farm of Jacob Rheinhart, I 
noticed the characteristic outcrop of the blackband in the road near Mr. 
R.’s house. No exploration has, however, been made in this vicinity to 
determine its thickness and extent. 
Still further south, in Salem township, west of Port Washington, are 
deposits of blackband ore, which have been already shown to be quite 
extensive, and some of them have been worked for a long time. The 
more important of these have been purchased by the Glasgow-Port 
Washington Iron and Coal Company, an organization of Scotch capital- 
ists, attracted by the resemblance of the ores of this region to those of 
their own country. 
They have erected two large and fine furnaces, and but for the depres- 
sion in the iron trade would now be producing a large quantity of first- 
class iron. The purchases made by this company are supposed to in- 
clude more than one hundred acres of blackband territory, and it is evi- 
dent that if suitable fuel can be prepared from Coal No. 6, which is here 
from five to seven feet in thickness, this will become the theater of an 
active and successful iron industry. | | 
The southern limits of the blackband area have, up to the present 
time, not been well defined, and it was until recently supposed that no 
important deposits of it existed south of the Tuscarawas. Extensive ex- 
plorations have, however, been lately made by Mr. A. Wilheimi, in 
Oxford township, which have resutted in the discovery of “ basins of ore,” 
which rival in extent and value any before known. These are all loca- 
ted within two or three miles of what is called Post Boy Station, on the 
Marietta, Pittsburgh and Cleveland Railroad. The several tracts con- 
trolled by Mr. Wilhelmi and his associates are supposed to include one 
hundred and fifty acres of productive ore ground, where the blackband 
varies in thickness from three to nine feet. All these tracts are within 
easy reach of the railroad, and it may be confidently expected that a 
large contribution will be made from this district to the wealth of the 
county. : 
Iam informed by Mr. Wilhelmi that in his explorations for blackband, 
in Oxford township, he discovered, by boring, an important body of ore 
unknown elsewhere, lying from forty to fifty feet below the blackband 
stratum. He reports it as a light-gray silicious ore, shown by analysis 
to contain thirty-nine per cent. of metallic iron, and consisting of closely 
approximating layers or plates, having an aggregate thickness of from 
three to nine feet. | 
