SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT—-HOCKING VALEEY. _ 867 
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Near Buckingham, on Upper Sunday Creek, are places where the Nel- 
sonville coal is cut away, and the eroded channel filled with unstratified 
blue clay. In this clay are masses of iron ore, some of them quite large. 
The ore has never been analyzed, but much of it has a silicious appear- 
ance. The smaller nodules seen in the bed of the stream, appear to be 
richer in iron and less silicious. It should be stated that the cut-away 
places above mentioned are distinct from the eroded channel through 
. the coal seam a little west, which is filled with a coarse sand rock. 
At one or two points in the Upper Sunday Creek Valley, I have noticed 
nodular ores in the stratified shales above the horizon of the Nelsonville 
seam, but at no place could they be profitably mined. Near Millerstown, 
a layer of ore five inches thick, and four feet below the Norris seam of 
coal, was seen. The ore at that point wasa blue carbonate. No analysis 
has been made of 1t. 
In the Upper Sunday Creek region, and northward to New Lexington 
we find an ore horizon a little above that of the Norris coal. This ore is 
locally called the “‘sour apple” ore, from an apple tree near one of the 
exposures of this ore, the apples of which were quite disappointing toa 
party of explorers. It is about tifteen feet above the Norris coal. On 
the farm of Wesley Moore, in Pike township, Perry county, this ore is, 
by barometer, sixty-three feet above the Nelsonville coal. Here the ore 
is nodular and embedded in whiteclay. The nodules are scattered through 
two feet eight inches of clay, and if in solid mass would form a layer of 
from eight to ten inches in thickness. On the land of Mr. Harper, a lit- 
tle south of New Lexington, the same ore is in good development. 
