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238 F³. , and from the very nature of the deposit it is not of course possible to say what amount of ore still remains at this point. But in the absence of any railroad communication and the expense of hauling the ore across the mountain to Greenwood, it is hardly probable that this deposit would receive any more attention in the immediate future than it has in the past.

Prof. Rogers in his first report, makes mention of a number of localities in the Kishacoquillas valley where, in former times, a very fair quality of limonite ore was mined; but, with the exception of the Greenwood bank, none of them seem to have furnished any quantity of ore, and in most cases all signs of the old workings are obliterated.

Along the road from Belleville to the Union Mills on the Kishacoquillas creek most excellent exposures of limestone occur, dipping S. 55° E., 68° and 65°. North of Belleville the limestone dips towards the northwest about 15°, and in a small bluff on the north side of the creek on the Yoder farm, it has been quarried somewhat for farm use on a dip of N. 55° W., 10°. It has a blue-gray color, is hard and yet shows a slaty structure, looking more like a baked calcareous slate than good limestone. Only about 15′ of rocks is exposed here in thin ribs from 6″ to 8″ thick. In Hartzler’s quarry, still further north, the softer blue Trenton limestone comes in a 25° dip, well exposed, where some excellent fluxing stone has been quarried and conveyed to Greenwood Furnace.

A short distance north of this the Utica slates show along the road, but only one satisfactory outcrop was noted about 500 yards from the mountain, dipping 60° to the northwest. The same slates are seen on the road leading across the mountain from Barr’s P. O., and outcrop well up the mountain road. In the valley they are so much decomposed and broken down that no satisfactory dip was observed, but as the road ascends higher into the Hudson River slates and thin sandstone about 100′ of measures are exposed, dipping N. 22° W., 70°, not far from the junction of No. IVa.