SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT—HOCKING VALLEY. 87 
Tine Bessemer ore is reported by Mr. F. Baird on the lands of the Mon- 
day Creek Iron Company, but at thetime of my visit the test pits, which 
had revealed it, were not open. The same ore is reported at Carbon 
H ll. On the coal lands of Peter Hayden, Esq., a somewhat remarkable 
deposit of ore is found in the horizon of the Bessemer ore, eighty-seven feet 
above the floor of the Nelsonville coal. The usual limestone, three feet 
thick, is seen twenty two feet below the ore, and a little lower, is a 
bituminous shale with a thin band of coal representing the horizon of 
the Norris coal. 
At several points the ore on the Bessemer level is well opened and ex- 
posed. It is generally a dark red ore, well oxydized. In one hill the ore 
ranges in thickness from one to four feet. Over it is a thin silicious 
band four inches thick, and above this from two to twenty feet of clay, in 
which are occasional nodules of ore—some quite large. In another hill 
a pit revealed one foot eight inches of the same red chalky ore. | 
In a third hill the ore is nodular, but still red. The nodules are im- 
bedded in a fire-clay, and the clay sometimes forms a part of the nodules, 
giving them a peculiar mottled appearance. Over these nodules is a layer 
of light colored limestone, but this sometimes becomes nodular. There 
is evidently a large quantity of the red ore on the estate. Two analyses 
of the red ore have been made by Prof. Wormley with the following 
results : 7 
ANALYSES OF PETER HAYDEN’S RED ORE. 
1 oF 
Specific gravity -.----..-- An aiee a elnel vote sae Le Uo SAY QSOS. lh aa nies 
Wiatercombinederre rrr e natin cco cyclen ins ln aincicfe ee lelsMepeicieveys ale aise 3.00 170 
Siliciouspumattenpesceeecewes a scl oe welt icin cicle Ho mtanis a dma sees 23.20 24 52 
PRO NGSESCUMTORd Ome emeoas tence) Necicitisitnaitnc tials We sony cibee Sounecion 43.51 44.29 
AMV THa ere eis Geren a cao. se hata e aislaa team aie ielcmiee aes oSte 2.00 1.80 
Oxidenmiam can esener tc ateieciscie ecclesia a ceir es cin eres cicalewic c cab erste 1.00 0.75 
BME CanbONalLOnoamecisas sciatscis cc's) s/c a\0'e/e Ba eihercicie staerarets weieihe se siaie 21.21 ALY 
TOMGENS. DAO CES Sooddo C665 648d Gb0d GO08 BOOS BOB b5 BECO DO Sead 4o550K 041 249 
Magnesia carbonate ........ 22 ....--2-----0- 5068 0005 005000 bONs 0.52 1.36 
SULMNGE .54566 bacdos caodno dabSObIOsOOR CUO daCodOOCObOb ao0Geb 6ob6 0.12 0.10 
AO tax lepers erential crmlol nlaia/aiaintol aie mislnwialcicielesiciejersiers 99.97 99 00 
Metallichine ner merseeincteiee eee miccin mialc ccicin ale) wicjnalninfnciele, sinimiefarsiain aie 30.56 31,00 
TBWOS Oni CLA COUPE emer EeE teria aa o/ciu\owicia cibisinicisioys ee slat oaielale ave cies 
Another sample partially analyzed in Pittsburgh gave thirty-five per 
cent. of the lime and magnesia carbonates, with less silica and more iron. 
The phosphorus in one of the samples analyzed by Prof. Wormley is 
pretty large, but that in the other is quite small for an ore from our Ohio 
