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This bed has been proved to exist along the west side of Will's mountain, from the Maryland line to beyond the Juniata river, and mining has been done in Londonderry, Harrison and Napier townships. The bed is single in Lon- donderry, and its thickness varies from six to twenty-three inches, with an average of fifteen to eighteen inches, but in Harrison the bed is double, showing two. layers, eighteen and two inches, separated by two feet of sandstone. When thus double, the lower bed is usually known as the Twin seam. The ore is fine- grained, with some specular ore. The following analyses, by Mr. McCreath, show the character of the ore :
1. Fossil ore, Adam Wolford's farm, Londonderry.
2. Fossil ore, Jacob Hardman's farm, Harrrison :
Metallic iron.
45.225 49.875
Sulphur
0.025 0.013
Phosphorus 0.454
0.422
Insoluble 'residue. 21.620 13.890
In each case the samples had been exposed for a long time to the weather.
In considering these, as well as the other analyses of iron ore given in this chapter, one should remember that they represent the dried ore ; but as the material comes from the mine it will contain no inconsiderable percentage of water, whereby the relative percentage of iron will necessarily be less than that shown by the analysis.
The bed becomes more complex in structure in Napier township, the following being the section :
Ft. In.
In.
Ore
0
10
Shale
0
6
Sandstone
2
0
Ore
1
6
to 10
Shale
1
3
Ore
0
10
The ore from the lowest bed is said to be the best.
All of these mines have been idle for several years, little work having been done on any of them since 1873. No other mining operations have been carried on along this side of the Wills-Dunning anticlinal, except in the neigh- borhood of Dutch Corner, where the features are the same with those observed on the east side of that anticlinal in Dutch Corner.
Many openings have been made between the Maryland line and the Juniata river along the east side of Wills-Dunning anticlinal, and sys- tematic mining has been carried on by the Kemble Coal and Iron Company northward from the Juniata river. No exposures now re- main south from the river. According to the best information attainable, the thickness of the bed does not average more than fourteen to sixteen inches in Cumberland Valley town- ship, although it is said to be twenty-three inches at one locality and three feet at another. In Bedford township near the southern line it is said to be but fourteen inches. Only pros- pecting pits have been digged south from the Pittsburgh pike, and in these the structure of the bed appears to have been found simple in all cases. But further north, opposite Wolfs-
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burg, the structure is complex as in Napier, the following being given as the section :
Ft. In.
Ft. In.
Ore
0
8
to
1
2
Shale
0
6
to
1
0
Blue Sandstone.
2
0 to
2
6
Ore
0
8
to
1 6
Shale
1
6
Ore
0
4
The main source of supply is the upper bed, which averages about ten inches, while the middle bed is very uncertain, sometimes being wholly cut out by variation of the sandstone. The mines in Dutch Corner, the northwestern part of Bedford township, have been operated for a number of years by the Kemble Coal and Iron Company. Two sections taken half a mile apart show these variations :
Ore
2
3
0
Shale
4
0
3
0
Ore
0
9
0
4 to 2
Shale
0
4
1
0
Sandstone
11 1
6
Ore
1
2 0
7
Only the upper bed is mined. Near the out- crop, where the ore was stripped, soft ore was found, but after solid cover was reached the ore became hard almost at once. The available ore varies little from two feet.
The following analyses have been made by Mr. A. S. McCreath :
1. County Farm, Bedford township.
2. Kemble Co's Mine, Wolfsburg.
3. Kemble Co's mine, Dutch Corner, hard ore.
Metallic iron
44.400
46.450 25.725
Sulphur. 0.017
0.011 0.034
Phosphorus 0.161 0.344 0.251
Insoluble residue 22.270 12.770 9.020
Carbonate of lime.
11.607
46.339
Carbonate of magnesia 1.136 2.648
Prospecting pits have been sunk at several places along the west side of Evitt's mountain, to prove the presence of the fossil ore-bed, and mining operations were carried on extensively by the Kemble Company at the Juniata gap. But the mines have been abandoned and the prospecting pits have become full of rubbish, so that no sections can be obtained now. Mr. Franklin Platt's section in the Kemble Company's tunnel is as follows :
Ft. In.
Ore
1
0
to
1
Sandstone
1
1
to
2
6
Ore
0
4
to
1
4
Ore
3
0
1
6
0
6 to 0 8
Sandstone
2
0 to
2 4 Shale 0
6
3
2
0
Ore
0 6 to
1 8 Ore
3
0
1
2
1
3 5 to 1 8
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The ore obtained here is very good, but the shales cannot be separated easily, and the temp- tation to mix shale with ore appears too great to be resisted by the diggers. So the mines were abandoned.
The most important area of this fossil bed is Black valley, which lies between Tussey moun- tain and Warrior ridge. The ore has been proved by J. B. Williams from the Maryland line to West Providence ; by Scott & Russell in West Providence south from the Juniata ; by Lowry, Eichelberger & Co., the Kemble Coal and Iron Company and Robert Hare Powel from the Juniata river to the line of Huntingdon county.
Ordinarily the bed is double in this area, the upper division being known as Fossil and the lower as the Twin. The upper is usually the more important.
No mining has been done south from the Juniata, but the extensive prospecting pits be- longing to J. B. Williams and Scott & Russell show the character very well. The exposures in Southampton township give :
Ft. In. Ft. In. Ft. In.
Ore
3
0
1 6 1 1
Clay
0
4
0
2 0
1
Ore
1
3
0 10 2
3
and at all of these the ore is very good. The lower bed is softer than the upper, the latter usually containing not a little of brown hematite.
The exposures in southern Monroe are not wholly satisfactory and the surface ore is some- what inferior, showing many small amygdules of quartz, which, however, may disappear at an inconsiderable depth below the surface. Further north in this township numerous pits have been sunk on the farm of John Pennel, Sr., on that of B. B. Steckman, as well as on several other farms. None of these show the structure in detail. The ore changes in some of them from ordinary fossil to brown hematite. The thick- ness in some pits is almost six feet, but the ore is not compact and the pits probably have not passed beyond the broken outcrop. The ore is of very fair quality at all of these pits, as appears from the analyses.
The Scott & Russell pits begin north from the Monroe line and show some variation in structure. Three measurements give :
Ft. In. Ft. In. Ft.
In. Ft. In
Ft. In. 5
Ft. In. In.
Ft. In. 4
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A fourth measurement shows four divisions of the ore. Some brown hematite always occurs in the upper division, which, however, is often sandy. The following analyses, by Mr. A. S. McCreath, show the variations of the ore south from the Juniata river :
1. Isaac Wilson's farm, Southampton township.
2. William Barkilow's farm, Southampton town- ship.
3. John Pennel's farm, Monroe township (brown hematite).
4. B. B. Steckman's farm, Monroe township. 5 and 6. Scott & Russell openings, West Provi- dence township.
1. 2. 5. 6. .48.150 54.150 58.850 3. 4. 45.225 17.125 54.950
Metallic iron
Sulphur
0.022
0.022
0.025
0.022
0.017
0.019
Phosphorus
0.298
0.282
0.728
0.175 0 161
0.818
Insoluble residue.
.. 18.810
7.790 8.770 22.610 69.130
9.600
Water
12,584
With the exception of No. 6 these analyses are of specimens which had been exposed to the air for from two to five years. But the sample for No. 6 was a section of the bed taken from a pit newly digged. The sample of No. 5 was probably not a fair one, but the pit contained so much water that the samples had to be taken from such material as lay on the surface.
The extensive mines of the Kemble Coal and Iron Company in West Providence and southern Hopewell extend for upward of three miles along the bed, and the tunnel reaches the ore at three hundred and twenty-five feet below the outcrop. The bed shows the following section :
Ft. In.
Ft. In.
Fossil
2
to
8
Interval
0
to
6
Twin .
2 to
6
Brown hematite and fossil ores occur together in the upper division, but the former is said to disappear gradually beyond fifty feet from the outcrop. A nest of calcareous ore was found at three hundred and twenty-five feet below the outcrop, which led to the fear that the ore had changed its character, but the variation proved to be merely local and the ore now obtained, though somewhat silicious, is of very fair qual- ity. The bed shows noteworthy variations in thickness, occasionally becoming very thin or almost disappearing, but again thickening to far beyond the average, there being one stretch of more than one thousand feet in which the com- bined thickness of the two divisions is nearly twelve feet, while the parting has diminished to a mere knife edge.
A long prospecting tunnel was driven to reach the ore, at somewhat more than a mile south from Yellow Creek gap, in Hopewell township. It is supposed to have reached the horizon of this bed, but instead of ore only ocherous clay was found. Exploration was made along the line of this clay, but no ore was obtained and the enter- prise was abandoned. This failure has given rise to the belief that the ore is wanting for some distance on the south side of the great gaps, or that when not wanting, it is of decid- edly inferior quality. This theory may be true or it may not be true ; but one thing is very certain, the present state of knowledge affords no basis of facts for any such theory, so that the proposition is wholly gratuitous. Had the Tatesville tunnel been driven further south so as to reach the ore-line in one of the "wants," a similar generalization might have been made respecting the north side of the great gaps. Failure to discover the ore within a mile and a half south from the Juniata, in West Provi- dence township, seemed to give the necessary basis for the theory ; but the failure to discover ore there has proved to be due to circumstances other than the absence of ore ; for ore is pres- ent in abundance and in good quality where its absence was asserted as proved by actual and thorough investigation.
In the Cambria mine the ore runs from two to five feet, and from two to four feet in the Powel mines. Mr. Powel has reached the ore in his Cove tunnel at two hundred and forty feet below the outcrop. The following analyses show the variations north from the Juniata river :
1. Kemble Co's mine at Tatesville. McCreath.
2. Cambria mine in Hopewell township. McCreath.
3. Stoler farm, Liberty township, brown hematite. Britton.
4. Cove tunnel, Liberty township. F. A. Genth.
1
2
8
4
Metallic iron
38.600 55.425 58.12 41.80
Sulphur
0.018
0.018 0.00 0.00
Phosphorus
0.213
0.229 0.27 Trace
Insoluble residue.
30.990
5.740 4.11 35.57
Water
11.20 4.24
Another sample from No. 4 showed 44.36 of me- tallic iron and 0.023 of phosphorus.
The Frankstown Bed.
This is about three hundred and eighty feet below the " fossil" bed, but it does not ap- pear so persistently as the. other. It cer- tainly exists on the west side of Dunning's
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mountain in East St. Clair township, on the east slope of Will's mountain in Cumberland Valley township, but it was not seen on the west side of Will's mountain, nor does it appear to have been discovered anywhere in the Black valley. It has been prospected in St. Clair township for Robert Hare Powel, where its thickness is from ten to twelve inches ; and pits were found at two places in Cumberland Valley township, where, however, its thickness could not be ascertained. Two analyses of this ore have been made by Mr. A. S. McCreath :
1. L. Geisler's farm, East St. Clair township.
2. M. S. Bortz's farm, Cumberland Valley township. Metallic iron 49.550 43.825
Sulphur 0.017 0.018
Phosphorus 0.137 0.544
Insoluble residue. 20.530 17.410
It seems to be altogether probable that this bed does not attain economic importance within Bedford county.
The Block Ore.
This lies at the very bottom of the Clinton at approximately two hundred and eighty feet below the Frankstown bed. Proofs of its existence were found on the west side of Dunning's mountain in East St. Clair township ; on the east side of Will's and Dunning mountains in Bedford and Cumber- land Valley townships; on the west side of Evitt's mountain in Bedford township, and on the east side of Tussey mountain in West Providence township. It contains some fossil ore in East St. Clair, but elsewhere only lumps of brown hematite were seen at its horizon. This bed has not been opened at any locality within the district, except in West Providence on the Scott & Russell tract, where the thick- ness is said to be two feet. The quantity of ore appears to be considerable at the head of the Juniata gap through Evitt's mountain.
Ores of the Calciferous.
These occur in Colerain, Snake Spring, South Woodberry, Woodberry and Bloomfield town- ships.
Within Bedford county these ores do not occur in place, but are found in loose sand, mingled with fragments of chert and sand- stone, the latter coming from the Lower Me- dina and the Hudson. Fragments of white Medina are common, but those from the other
groups predominate. The detrital deposits ap- pear to follow definite lines, forking again and again like water-courses, so as to suggest the possibility of their marking the old drainage lines of the area. These sandy deposits form ridges, known in Morrison's cove as " barrens." A single ridge only is found in the narrow Friend's cove, where it is known as Middle ridge.
No development of these ores has been made to any extent within Colerain township, and the only one of any importance in Snake Spring is that made by the Kemble Company on John G. Hartley's property, between the Chambersburg pike and the Juniata river. The quantity of ore is considerable, but the greater part of it is in small fragments. The existence of ore at many places along this Middle ridge is undoubted, as may be seen by reference to the chapter describ- ing the area between Evitt's and Tussey moun- tains ; but no conclusions respecting its quan- tity would be judicious unless based on actual development far beyond that which has been made.
The most marked line of ore-bearing sands is in South Woodberry and Bloomfield town- ships. It has been broken badly by erosion, which renders direct tracing not always easy. A sandy ridge can be followed from Beaver creek northward to the line between South Woodberry and Bloomfield, not following the strike of the rocks, but bearing almost north and south. Its width is not far from one mile, and its eastern edge passes at somewhat more than a mile and a half west from New Enterprise. There it is narrow, owing to erosion by Beaver creek, but it widens northward so as to come very near the road leading through Lafayette- ville. As this ridge approaches the northern edge of South Woodberry township it is joined by a similar but narrower ridge, which begins at about a mile west-northwest from New En- terprise, and continues to its junction with the other at the township line, where the width of the combined ridges is nearly a mile and a half. Thence northward for some distance it becomes narrower, owing to erosion by Yellow creek, but beyond that stream it widens again and is readily traced to Blair county.
The existence of ore along this ridge has been fully proved by prospecting pits and ex- tensive mining operations made by Dr. Shoen- berger, the Cambria Iron Company and
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others at comparatively short intervals. In South Woodberry the ore has been opened on the Ripley and Ebersole properties ; in Bloom- field, on the Bender, Stuckey and Longenecker properties south from Yellow creek ; while north from that stream it has been prospected on the Bailey and Long farms, and mined at Baker's Summit and on the Bloomfield prop- erty.
Another strip begins in Woodberry near the southern edge of the township, between the forks of Yellow creek, and goes northward for certainly four miles. The ore is shown on the Hoffman, Fox, Hoover and other farms, and many years ago mining was done on some of them. The width of this strip was not deter- mined. It is less important than the other.
As these ores are loose they must be sepa- rated from the clay and sand either by screening or washing. Where fragments of chert are not abundant the ore can be cleaned without diffi- culty by washing. The process is a simple one. The machinery consists essentially of a trough, eighteen inches wide and less than a foot deep ; in this revolves a wooden shaft fitted with iron flanges, so arranged as to push the material forward, while they agitate it. Water flows through the trough, and the finer particles are removed. A more primitive method is to use a hollow wooden cylinder, four or five feet in diameter, fitted with a rim of six inches at each end, while small spaces are left between the slats covering the frame. The sand and ore are thrown into the revolving cylinder, the finer particles are washed out through the spaces, while the coarser lumps remain in the box.
The mode in which these ores occur has been described in detail by Mr. Franklin Platt in Report T of the survey. For further descrip- tion, the reader is referred to that report. An- alyses for this report were made as follows by Mr. A. S. McCreath :
1. John G. Hartley's ore, Snake Spring township. 2. Jacob Ripley's ore, South Woodberry township.
1.
2.
Metallic iron
57.400 52.750
Sulphur 0.025 0.026
Phosphorus 0.119
0.096
Insoluble residue 4.040 9.910
Unfortunately, these analyses do not repre- sent the shipping ore. They were made from samples obtained by taking chips from piles of ore thrown out from pits and therefore freed as far as possible from foreign matter. Despite 13
the utmost precaution, more or less silicious matter is retained after the washing, so that the ore as shipped shows material variations in quality. Analyses made by Mr. A. S. McCreath, for the Pennsylvania Steel Company, are repre- duced here to show the general character of the ore as shipped :
Metallic iron.
phorus.
July, 1873
32.25
0.053
March, 1874
39.06
0.041
April, 1874
33.50
0.039
April, 1874
35.00
0.059
May, 1874
36.60
0.053
Quality of the Iron Produced.
At present [this was written before the com- pletion of Powel's furnace at Saxton] only the furnaces at Hopewell and Riddlesburg are in blast. That at Hopewell uses charcoal and a mixture of Lower Helderberg and fossil ores. The iron is mostly mill, very little foundry be- ing made. The following analyses are by Mr. McCreath, No. 1 being that of the mill and No. 2 that of the foundry :
1. 1.960
2
Silicon
1.708
Sulphur. Trace 0.026
Phosphorus 0.507 0.429
The Riddleburg furnaces use coke as fuel and have no ores aside from those of the Clinton. For some time they have been producing only foundry iron. But formerly mill iron of excel- lent quality was made. Five tons of it were tested by Messrs. Marshall, Phillips & Co., of Philadelphia and manufactured by them into bar and sheet iron. Their report was as fol- lows :
The bar iron, when bent hot or cold, showed no indications whatever of a fracture in the fiber; in fact, the best judges could have been deceived as to the hot and cold ends of the bar.
The hematites of the Lower Silurian are no longer reduced within this district, and the whole product of the Bloomfield mines is shipped else- where. The Rodman furnaces on the Bloom- field estate used these ores exclusively, with Connellsville coke as the fuel and Trenton lime- stone as the flux. The metal was used by the Pennsylvania Steel Works, where Mr. McCreath made the following analyses, which are repro- duced from Mr. Platt's Report T :
1.
2
8.
Silicon
4.004
3.184 2.713
Sulphur
0.035 0.082 0.123
Phosphorus 0.195 0.195 0.192
Manganese.
0.144 0.864 ..
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No. 1 was made in 1872, No. 2 in March, 1874, and No. 3 in May, 1874. This metal was used with other brands in the manufacture of Bessemer steel.
The charcoal irons made at the old Bloomfield furnace from these ores were so superior "that after a long and complete series of tests, the Bloomfield pig metal was chosen by Capt. Rod- man for use in making the heavy ordnance for the United States government, and he strongly urged that the government should purchase the whole Bloomfield ore deposit and thus procure a permanent supply of this valuable ore."
LIMESTONE.
Limestone of an excellent quality abounds in many parts of the county. The lime produced from it is strong, but is almost wholly used for agricultural purposes.
BUILDING MATERIALS.
Timber is so plentiful that few houses are constructed of stone. The Lower Silurian lime- stones are used somewhat in the localities where they occur, and they answer admirably, being durable and of good color. Excellent sandstone can be obtained from the Pocono, Portage and Medina, but the Medina is very hard to dress. The Portage flags break out nicely and are easily trimmed, but they, like the Lower Medina, though very durable, have a somber tint, which is not altogether agreeable. The Oriskany is used occasionally, but care must be used in selecting the stone, as many parts of the group do not re- sist the weather.
Clay for the manufacture of ordinary brick can be obtained from the subsoil everywhere.
No good plastic fire clay was seen in the Broad Top region, there being a considerable amount of oxide of iron in all the beds. Nor does the hard clay appear to be present there, no frag- ments of it having been seen at any locality, though its horizon in the Pottsville is exposed at many localities.
The Savage Mountain fire-clay reaches the southwest corner of Bedford county in London- derry township. No exposures of it were found within the district, but an extensive mine has been opened on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad in Somerset county just beyond the line of Bed- ford county. There the clay is mined for the Savage Fire-Brick Company, which has works at Hyndman, in Bedford county, and at Keystone junction in Somerset county. The thickness of
the deposit varies from nothing to twenty-one feet, a room with the latter thickness having been reached since the examination was made. Much of the clay makes only bricks of the second grade, but fully one-half of the ordinary run and the whole of the mass in the present workings makes bricks of the first quality.
The capacity of the works at Hyndman is 4,000,000 of bricks per annum, and their product has been continually sold ahead. The Savage Mountain bricks are believed to be equal to any made in the country, and they are widely used in the construction of coke-ovens and in lining furnace-stacks. It is possible that the high re- putation is due quite as much to care in select- ing the clay as to the general character of the clay itself.
TIMBER.
Much of the district is uncleared, but over a great part of the area the choicer trees have been culled, so that the original forest has prac- tically disappeared. Oaks, chestnut, pine and spruce are shown on the mountain ridges, on the lower hills and in swales are found maples and poplars, while still lower are walnut, hickory and ash, with here and there some gum, cucumber and butternut.
Oaks grow luxuriantly on Medina, Oriskany and Portage; pines and spruces grow with equal luxuriance on Catskill and Mauch Chunk ; while both oaks and pines thrive well on the Pocono soils. Eastern Bedford and western Fulton still contain much excellent pine tim- ber, many trees of nearly two feet in diameter having been seen. But the many sawmills are fast utilizing the larger trees, so that within a very few years prime lumber will be an insig- nificant item in the list of products. Oaks are rapidly disappearing to supply ties to the rail- roads and bark to the tanneries, while, in much of the district, forest fires effectually destroy the young trees.
Chestnut, maple and poplar are still in suffi- cient quantity to be important. Chestnut abounds on the limestone ridges. The other woods previously mentioned are found only in small quantities. The supply of black-walnut timber has become insufficient everywhere in our country, and farmers would do well to plant walnut-trees. There are extended strips of rich bottomland, which are too stony for cultiva- tion, but which would answer admirably for walnut, hickory and ash.
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Chestnut oak is abundant in the region lying west from Wills-Dunning mountain, and it is present in the Catskill swales along the foot of the Allegheny mountain. A great quantity remains on both sides of Evitt's and Tussey mountains, and much remains untouched along Ray's hill.
The abundance of this timber led to the es- tablishment of tanneries at many places in both
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