Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1842-09-24


ton county,. Should II rurn out, however, as Dr..
Locke thinks It may, shall be quite as well
saiisfed:
Juniata Iron in Ohio.
Mr. EDIT. r.:
Several specimens Of iron had been
brought Ia me from nanr Wilmington. in Clinton
county, Ono. having granular structure, like
the spawn OF fishes, (,pI,''c) In IT, recognized
a fossilIfefons n, small excitement a
rose the neIghbor hood, with regard To ths ore,
from tho circumstance that some persons, from
awkward attempt to reduce II, had procured
mallcablc IRON, thing unusual IN such efforts
and gave out word that i, contained soft,
white metal probably silver. In a late visit to
Professor Vanuxen, Of Bristol, Pa, of the
New York Geol"gtsts, on comparing fossil speci
mems, found those from Clinton county, Ohio
10 be Identical with those from tho Juniata iron
ore, and from Clinton, and point south OF Uti-
ca, N. Y. On returning to Cincinnai made a
Journey 10 Clinton county, o, and IN company
with Mr.. Timherlake. OF GAINESVILLE, examined
the IN the place The identity with the New
York and Pennsy vanIa ores, wa. fully establish
ed; but the bed, so far as saw if,-was too thin
for prof table working StlIl, IL may be found
thicker in the ne'ghborhooh. and eye should be
kept TO II; bu, all idea Of finding silver tin,
should be at once aba ndoned.
This ore ID found, IN what the New York &C.
olog,s,s have called the Clinton Group which
well characi erlzed by peculiar fossil, button
mould like stone, say to an inch IN diameter,
thick in the middle, and thinued at the edges, like
a lens either circular, indented, rose shaped, or
star shaped; generally, all these forms occurring
together. ! found at the locality In Clinton conn
", these fossils lying IN the greatest nbund nee
in the soil. They species Of Enchrini'y,
md for tho prescott. have ventured 10 call then
lenficularis Bat the Clinton Group, marked bv
these fossils, PES always contain iron ore. II
is extensive in The State of OHIO, forming the
ba of the clitI series Of Limestone, and ii course
lying Immediately above The blue, or Cincinnati
limestone. II is finely developed ~ Adams coun
", where ! had denomlna,ed It the 'nIntv lime
stone (Sne OHIO Geology, reportsO l have
seen it al the falls of Louisville, and /, found
about Dayton, where IL is tInged with iron, of a
reddish, yelIowish color, and Mr.. Van Cleve
has called IL Professionally, the yellow limestone.
Mr.. Buchanan has lately shown me some very
fine Isntmnlar fossils, nbove described. "btnined
BY Mr.. Van Ceve, and himself, about 4 miles
west of Dayton.
. A, the locality Of the Clinton non ore, about
3 miles northwest Of Wilmington, IN Clinton
county, Ohio, there are some points Of hnttqra-
rian interest, which served 10 increase The delo>
sion with regard to silver ore, aud Impelled the
inhabitants actually employ small labor
explora lion, by digging till the woods there loci,
&C the Upper Mississippi 'praspeciers for lead,
had been work. 1t had evidently been re.
SCR, Of the aborIgines: small mounds, fl led with
mes, heaps of stones. "rrnw-hends, and stone
axes were tount; and. above all, hncieht marks
Of fires for roasting tho ores. and Goals aud elm
ders Of the semi. fused ore, were evident. When
first heard of these log heap tnrnAces. doubted
It's being fac', aud supposed The people had he,
misled by some recent operations. But when
onvinced, the GROUND. Of the truIh OF the CIR
cutnstances | was at loss TO account for them.
Certainly the Indians did not Manufacture iron.
One thing however, better suited IT, their genius. !
they did manufacture. and that was Rouoe Tins T.
sois the fingers on handIng. with beautiful /
red, difficult 10 be removed. even bv soap and
ter-And, after burning or roasting ~, rich We I
nian red IS the result Undpahtejiv. red paint. /
an article so inurh prlzrd by tho Indian, aud not
neglected bv the mlre refined, was mtnufactur.
ed al this incal'v.
Yours &c, JOHN LOCKE.