New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-11-15
pfss. OF course there were fe~ inducements to work
mists, ard kss to oi,coyfr Tbose oaly eI-
tied attention which creppsd body Of the ground

wet TO both those mines, snd wi hoa, LET ndor-
| snee, CT price, ok What be chose TIE ate Col
Jackson rtmsnbered when the ere at both these
PLACES tbs, be could back An oI-cst up to the
zine itself and get load, and when people would as
'oor bave thous b. OF paying for stones as Tor 'he ore
The late Gov. ID ckeIson once gave NE history Of
biz sper did me passing from one owner to smother
IS sn uDprodre'ive property Of but ne vaae. At
bis ceeth si00 600 in cash could have bought II.
The same true of the Mount Hope mir &C. and ye.
few yea's ago they brought from their present
owre,s SO, 600 in cash, p,id In hand.
When this country was relieved of the narrow pol
icy of England the iron business became an import
ant branch of industry in New-Jer.ey, and furnace
st Pomp'On Rhgwood, Hibernis, HouSt Hope &c,
eD5 forges on mcst of tie mount in streams, were
built. Tbs save value TO mines already dscOverei,
ard adceo Stimulus 10 those who bad the taste 70 ID
for rev ones The noted iron master of Mou5t Hope,
John Jsc FaIscho, used TO give IRE P'uHds to tue
dls'oVere, # mine on his trac, of some G,O0O
seTes. And We; the mines al to st region were mis-
eraoly woke0 according 10 cbaIce, ard with bu, T.
lie sch ntf, knO sedge OF the busiaess. slch a
ihiIg az preparing mine so in the long run -
mai mining easy ard profitable hsrdly dresmed
of. As an illustration of thus | rene uber one
Il Ire shicb bs been worked in this loose way many
ystrs Vhch as so,d for 81. 600, and ut under the
mans zen Mt Of experienced liner from Cornw all.
Ens land sro took cut enough oft-ha- had been let
behiDc, in be walls, pillars, &c. by the former
osDeI-s lno-t to pay for the property. He forhwi
Tut TIE mre q condition for raising al van
tal G. src amost i ere dirle emOuurs b sve al esdy
ben taken from what seems al intXl ausGols bed.
TIE Hlteuio mu.es in Ro kawsy township we're not
esiimstec highly; and in going that hi ycl viii
So hobs and Girchts, irdc ting the kmd OF plaes
which bsd ben allowed 10 former days But ~ith!a
q few y.oIs, science ana e1peTesce nave converted
that H. ,rLis Inor niain no property gest value
ttnfold the vase it bore twenty sears age. One is
surprised 10 the vast pies of which are blasted
here and carres TO market
One year ago the legs allure passed a law sppropri-
srg money for the tsO,osgs geo"si al suIvey Of the
State; ap5 DR.. William Ktch-Il Of syark was sp-
pointed " State GeolOg,t ard Superintendent" Dr.
Kcbel was assisted by Prof George II. Cook Of Rat
GER, rege. Henry Mortz cbaais, and E.bert l..
NieIe. t.pogrsp hcal ecgieer The reports OF these
cen,l.men are ale and Va aabe. Dr.. Ktcasl tx
amiha,ions have been condsed principally to Sussex
cssn,; su, i, addition to this he ha. made thor ugh
exploration of the Mount Hope nil - in Mons coun
ty The reconnaissance Of SuseS proves the existence
irss ore The L. die shows the presence Of iron ia
many place. which have not yet been touched. fhe
FrapbiIte ore in tbs region ef Hsmbursh ia tbe
rspee Of mountains the west Size of tae Waikiki
valley, as WEI as the zinc ore, is abundant. The
larees, OF inn miuts is the 4ndOver which was
worked as esly as 1850, but Bever very vigorously
until it came into p"s-essios OF Cooper d Hewitt OF
Trenton IN lsi7. From the revolutionary war Till
lsl7, but little ole comparatively was taken out.
This wealthy and enterpIisDg finn constructed
track fran the mine, which is in Newton township,
some fs g miles nom the town. t. Waterloo on the
Morris csua. Tins rough track is supersedet 10y
the Newton raj road which is usei for transporting
the ore as Ell II more general purposes In seven
Yeas Cooper d Hewitt took from the Andover
nipes than ooo tuns OF ORE TIE ore Is said
TO be "peculsr, acspfed to the manufacture Of
steel" The iron mace from this ore is described
of the first quality tor making wrought-iron of great
"steSgth toughpess in the chs. % ourlargest
" class steamer. "At the wre mills the blooms
"w, rkeC aid orswp do to the finest wire uosur-
"pasted H. quality rbe Trenton Icon company
"tCcsper & Hewitt have tbr.e furnaces IN opetaroJ
"requriI to suppl them 60 OOO tuos OF ore per year
large p oporti OF his ia ken rom tue An1o-
yer mnes, yet notwithstanding this heavy denend
"to Gene ar ABUNDANT supply" rhe ere in the
"Andover mines i'll tbs form Of large irregu-
"lar degosit from sizty 10 rightly fret IN pdth, snd
"foms the sontf -sesten eide of hlll Ring Upward
"of one buDdred snd fifty feet above water level
This ole does not compare 10 i'hness with many Of
h. Morris county ores, bat it makes the largest show
Of ally mine in the State
It's hoped ard expected that DR.. Kitcbe!l aud his
corps of assistants will be able to prosecute this geo
logical survey to its completion. The report just
published prof sses only to sketch in brief way
wi at has teen done IeseIvig the details, with maps
enc dawings for the insl report. The doctor links
thai with So, coo The topography be extended
lover the greater part OF the state, toe geological re-
searches 10 .6e in detail far as the topography eX
"tpds, together with general eIsmios;ion Of the
"Ien Ting por;ion-lssying the survey in such
"e sdt that the entire field work Of toe State
abe completed in 1886" EXI erienoe shows that it
will be wise e1 pei diture since the neral districts
Of this STATE ara low com nding unusual attention
fou capitalists abroad. The Glendor company Of
Bos'on ha ssed several mines in Morris coaoty;
Boston man has b ught The Teabo mine New York
firm the Mount Hope tract Pennsylvania ron-mts-
te,s have bought esseo several mines in the same
county. The same thing is true of Sussex; aud all
that the State Dc in giving definite scientific In
fornstion 70 the public cOcce ming the minerals con-
ceaIed in our me uDtains wir come back with ten
fold increase of actual capital here invested
New Jersey wants two things Just no~-to gain
which she might richly afford TO sacrifice the pltta1ce
p., into her treasury BY the lords Of toe monopoly
viz. lac GsniAaat'ng The liquor trafic, and a
great coal road following Dstura and easy route 40
the Psssaic and Newfoundland rivers, crossing the
Morris county iron beds at Chsrlorenburgh, and the
Sussex bees somewhere in the region OF Hamburgh,
ard 80 reaching the Pennsylvania cnal beds Such