HOCKING VALLEY. ay 687 
Valley, and I adopt his numbering of the ores, as amended by Mr. 
Nichols in his chart, both in this description and in the section given on 
a previous page. 
Prof. Weethee made the shaft ore—the equivalent of the Moxahala 
ore—his No. 1, and from thence carried his series to the top of the hill. 
I find that Mr. Nichols, in his charts, has made the ore next below the 
Great Vein, which has no outcrop on these lands, No. 1. So that his 
numbers, minus one, represent Prof. Weethee’s numbers. In the shales 
directly above the Great Vein, and in the interval between it and the 
“Baird ore,” there are important ores which are quite persistent and 
deserving of a place in the series. This numbering is, however, pro- 
visional, and can be only temporary. A revision of this report, or a new 
report altogether, made under better auspices when all the ores are thor- 
‘oughly opened and tested, will revise the system and give permanent 
names and numbers to the ores. 
Ore No. 2 is the Moxahala ore. It is located from fifteen to twenty- 
eight feet below the Bayley’s Run coal, resting on a heavy body of lime- 
stone, and has been pronounced by experienced iron manufacturers a 
valuable ore. It is a calcareo-silicious ore, massive and at the Blonden 
shaft measures four feet in thickness, according to the report of those 
who sunk the shaft. On Fraction 31, Section 15, Trimble township, on 
H. Johnson’s land, it is exposed in the bed of the stream two feet nine 
inches in thickness, resting on four feet of lime rock ; the ore is ten feet 
below the Bayley’s Run coal, which is here four feet eleven inches thick, 
but has the appearance of being below its proper horizon. Massive slips 
upon the slopes of the hills are throughout this whole region so numer- 
ous that there is great difficulty in securing accurate measurements of 
the intervals between the ore and coal beds, and the measurements re- 
ported can be verified only after the regular opening of the mineral 
deposits. The ore at this place shows excellent characteristics, and is 
apparently richer in iron than at the shaft, when analysis of a single 
specimen showed twenty-five per cent. The ore can be mined with the 
limestone which underlies it, both being above drainage in the deepest 
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valley. 
Ore No. 8 is from one to six feet below the Bayley’s Run coal. Its out- 
crops, where observed, show a maximum thickness of thirteen inches of 
a clay-iron stone, in small nodules, well oxydized, and what is often 
called in this neighborhood a siderite. Taking this term as a designa- 
tion of the carbonate of the protoxide, nearly all the ores, when not sub- 
jected, to atmospheric influences, are siderites, a greater or less portion of 
the base being replaced by lime, manganese, and magnesia, and mechan- 
