Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-01-19

CT~ BLACK BAND lion ORE.-The Pottsville
Journal says that tho interest in the discovery of this
ore in Schuykill county sincreasng. SO far, it has
been discovered at several points in that county and
very recently traces of it found Pottsville
AS all railroads must, in of time the
OF economy, adopt steel rails, and this ore will
make fine article BY the Dessemer process, this dis
covery is of the greatest value. This will pro.
badly be found in the Shamokip coal region.
We have received from Joseph S. Patterson, Esq {,
of Pottsvic, the following letter in relation to tho
valuable discovery of this ore in the Schuylkil re-
gion:
PoTrsvILLE, Pa, Dec. Goth, 1866.
desire to call your attention to the Importance Of
the late discovery at st. Clair, of vein Of Black
Band Iron Orc. The ore is now being mined by E.
W. McGinncs, Esq, in his shaft, fifty feet from the
surface, and supposed to lie seventyfve feet under
the Diamond Vein ii this vein Of ore should ex-
tend over Red Ash Region, and there is every
to suppose that IL does there is telling its
value to Schuylkill County. We can erect Iron and
Steel works here, and consume large part of our
coal product. The contains 80 per cent of metal
lie iron, and 35 per cent of caibonaceous matter
that it will require less coal to mako ton of iron
than any other ore outside OF the coal region. twill
make an iron equal or superior to the Scotch pig,
aud drive that metal which we now import in large
quantities, out Of the market At Massillon, Ohio,
they make iron from Black Band ore, and the owner
the furnace t0d II had the place OF tho
Scotch pig in all that section of country. Mixed
with the rich magnetic lately found in large
veins in Derks County, it could not fail to make
Bessemer other steel of good quality. There are
six inches of mining over the vein, and over that
twenty seven feet of conglomerate rock, under il
blue hard slate. have before me samples of Welsh
and Scotch Black Band ores ours assays richer than
either Al Schuylkil Haven and along that valley,
there is a vein of limestone fifty feet thick. Mr.. B.
Pott says his father used this limestone excusiyey
at his charcoal furnace in this Borough. 1t is moi
used at present in the Anthracite furnaces but take
ii that nature would not have placed it 80 the
coal and iron if not meant to be combined
with them 10 make iron.
In Wales the Limestone used is found in proximity
to the coal Mr.. Griffith who visited Eng.
land, Scotland und Wales, to examine the iron and
steel works, SAYS in district of twenty miles in
South Wales lin coal regiont from Hermine u
Ponty Pool they tdrpei cut 25 900 tons of msnufsc
tured iron and steel per week, and consume yearl
more coal than We produced in Schuyikili county
this year This iron and steel is all manufactured
from coal region ores. They have no magnetics o
any account in England or Wales. How much NOR,
favorable then, is position II the furnace, th'
steel works and the rolling mills were erected here
VIC could combine all the profits and make iron and
steel cheaper than at other points. Before lonl
steel rails will be wanted in large quantities, as rail
roads will not use iron rails when they can get al
article that will last twenty times as long. Sehuyl
kill county is tho place to make them, where w
have the coal, iron ore and limestone. There are
number of other veins Of ore in the county. Ih'
southern Coal Field. from Sharp Mountain TO Mini
Hill will probably be found to contsin the bulk o
the black Band. 1t may, however, exist In some o.
the other Anthracite Coal Fields.
sIles writing iLe above, Gen. Egfried has dis
covered two veins Of iron in The tunnels OF Pott
% 90. = at Mnersyile. in the white ash measures
each sir feet thiok and one To the red ssh msesures
Lhrse feet thick