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Rh was opened some 10 years ago under lease to Messrs Simpson, Specht & Gift. The bed is scarcely 15″ thick, and adheres strongly to a fine-grained gray sandstone roof, slightly calcareous which is removed partially in the gangways and breasts. The ore bed has a sandstone floor dipping conformably 25° S. E. The drift is about 40 yards long going westward from Breininger’s run with three levels. The ore is soft fossil of fair quality, but too far from market to justify its operation at the present time. It is evidently in the Danville bed group, underlying the Ore sandstone which is here 25–30′ thick.

The ore ridge, locally known as Gold Hill here, is not high and the ore-breasts cannot be over 30 or 40 yards in length.

On Henry Hartman’s property, one mile west from Troxelville, a shaft on the Sand Vein developed a bed from 16″–18″ thick, which however contains a considerable amount of siliceous matter which seems to characterize this bed all along the Jack’s mountain side of the valley.

The upper Salina No. Vc′, owing to their low dip in this township, creates a fertile strip between the Bloomsburg red shale and Kline’s ridge.

The Lower Helderberg limestone in this latter hill shows a small synclinal loop along Moyer’s Mill run, which makes its outcrop somewhat irregular.

Just west of Troxelville a good exposure of the limestone shows on the west side of the Beavertown road dipping 35° S. E.; but the limestone itself is not of very good quality. On the east side of the creek in this gap a quarry is opened, exposing about 40′ of medium quality stone, which is worked from time to time as required for local fertilizing use. This quarry is owned jointly by Messrs. W. Baum, N. Fetterolf, Jacob Nerhood and James E. Kline, who purchase ¼ acre lots here and burn jointly for private use. The stone is not well developed, but is said to furnish a very satisfactory lime and is open for a couple of hundred yards east.