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Rh just above the Hackenberry place with a dip of N. 60° W. 30°. Several years ago a small shaft was put down on the James Wallace place about 1½ miles west of the gap and several wagon loads of ore were raised, The shaft was only 10′ deep and is now entirely tilled up. The Sand Vein ore was the one found here.

Mr. Spanogle has done some slight work on the same bed just back of Hackenberry’s house, by means of a drift at creek level. This opening was likewise fallen shut, but some good soft fossil ore was seen loose at the mouth of the opening and the bed mined here is reported to have been 18″ thick.

West towards Waterloo, the outcrop of the fossil ore bed can be traced with more or less persistency gradually approaching the mountain as the little synclinal basin south of Waterford expires. The Ore ridge is very knobby here and frequently cut by small ravines, in one of which, south of Titzel’s place, some little ore has been found.

The Limestone Ridge, to the north of the Waterford and Waterloo pike is considerably eroded by Tuscarora creek. Indeed, from the Waterford gap, for over 3 miles west to the school house the ridge is almost entirely eroded; but north of the school house the creek runs through the upper Salina shales and permits the limestone and sandstone ridge to take form again.

There is another short strip of ridge land east of Clark’s S. M. From the school house west, except where it is cut out at Neeley’s and Gallagher's by small streams, the ridge is fairly persistent to Waterloo, and everywhere presents the Oriskany No. VII as a flint deposit on its north flank, with the Lewistown limestone No. VI, really making the crest and south flanks on an average dip of about 50° N. W.

The upper Salina rocks present very few outcrops and the Bloomsburg? red shale shows a thin interrupted streak of red land running just south of, and parallel with, the pike.

Going up George’s creek, about 1½ miles east of Waterloo, both Nos. VI and VII are cut out. A grey sandstone some-