Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-05-27

IRON MOUNTAIN, No, May Is

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Mountain. This name is applied to a
small village, near which are several
"knobs," or, as they are called, mountains,
principally composed of iron ore. On
one Of these hills, or knobs, are half
dozen openings, where men are quarrying
out iron ore in manner similar to that
practiced in Rutland when a marble quar-
ry is being opened
The mining or quarrying is usually
commenced in the side of the hill and
worked toward the center. In several
instances the work has been pushed sol
that perpendicular face of the ore,
twenty to thirty feet high and several
rods in length, is formed in the openings.
A tramway runs from these openings
down to the foot of the hill, and is so ar
ranged that the car that goes down draws
the empty car up the inclined plane.
There are two large blast furnaces in
the village, but they consume but very
small proportion of the one that Is quar-
ried at these mines. Most of it is shipped
io4s . -
Mountain r. r. and thence distributed to
ether markets. Iron Mountain is covered
with a thin soil capable of sustaining only
a stinted growth of timber. principally
scrub oak. The surface abounds with
fragments Of iron ore some in the form
of small pebbles, and others in large
boulders. On removing these, the ore
below i, found about as solid as the over
Iv;ng rock .f a valuable quarry. To drill
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L. ,r,nor1v ,oar,oo1 immense masses
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There Is no rock associated win 'he ore
OF this mountain except an occasional
mass OF porPt'yry 'l''' ms NOT '.''',f as
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The ore forming Iron Mountain yields
by analysis 695 per cent, but la th" fur
mace the yield 's about tn par cent I'ss,
say about sixty. The loose Ie1hle- found
near the surface m the rcd clay which j.
~onetlne~ as bright a- red paint are
richer in met Il than tho ore blasted from
the solid mass. Good ere Is often found
di~~cmin led in the 1eearnro-i parrhyry
that entirely rkjrt~-thr mount in, all at
Times overlirs the solid mass ii ure
A. surveyed this mountain Of ore
could but think Of the folly OF try ing ia
compete with 1t IN manufacturing iron
from th,, small deposits scattered through
Vermont. There l. a great difference in
quarrying ore at the surface and mining
it i'll galleries deep in the earth.
1t cost, eight and one-half cents per
hundred to transport THIS ore 10 y Louis
During the month ~ AIHl there were
transported over the Iron Mountain Ran
road, 6I9o,ooo tons ot pig iron, and 20
10000 tons Of iron ore from this mine and
Pilot kuoh, which i six miles further
west A bout the average yieti Per month
OF Pilot Knob Will >peae6 IN another let
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