868 GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 
ANALYSES OF ‘‘SouUR APPLE” ORE. 
No. 1, Wesley Moore’s. 
No. 2, from Harper’s farm. 
No. 3, ore reported seven feet above the Norris coal at Moxahala. 
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No. 1 and No. 2 by Prof. Wormley; No. 3 by E. 8S. Gregory. 
A partial analysis of a sample of this ore from Sunday Creek gave 
43.06 per cent. of iron. In places this ore will contain too much phos- 
phorus, but it often appears promising. Where I have seen it, it is 
nodular, but further explorations may reveal it inaregular layer. South 
of New Lexington considerable quantities of it may be obtained by easy 
stripping. 
The next ore of importance above the “sour apple” ore is the Besse- 
mer ore. This has its most marked development at Bessemer, Athens 
county. At the Akron furnace, at Bessemer, the ore is, by instrumental — 
measurement, eighty-three feet above the floor of the Nelsonville coal. 
A little above the ore is seen at one point a seam of coal believed to be 
the Bayley’s Run seam. At the outcrop the ore is nodular, but a little 
drifting reveals a layer of blue carbonate, which, at one point, I found 
to be two feet seven inches thick. Resting upon this layer are thickly 
packed nodules of ore, the mass averaging, according to Mr. Thomas 
Black, one foot six inches in thickness. The ore is generally more or 
less oxydized on the outcrop, but in the drifts becomes hard and blue. 
At first it was supposed that the overlying nodules were chiefly com- 
posed of carbonate of lime; indeed they were called “lime bowlders,” 
and were to be used in the furnaces rather as a flux than an ore, but 
it is reported that they have been found, by trial, to be a useful ore. I 
have no analyses of the Bessemer ore at this place. The ore is silicious, 
