Box 1, Folder 10: Notebooks

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[pencil sketch with text]

Section across [pit] crossed out Trench No 3 - The drift being removed Drift with angular & rounded blocks of Potsdam Sandstone &c [text above written vertically]

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[pencil sketch - map] Map of Breens Mine [written vertically]

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[left column] Ascent 6 ft 6 6 6 8 [line drawn] 32 feet

[right column] Dist 23 19 13 23 50 [line drawn] 128

[right bracket next to right column] From Spring to House 128 ft House to pit 63 [line drawn]

Pit No ! From Road (at edge of Marsh *) 40 ft dist 10 ft elev to beginning of pit No 1 36 ft to 3 1/2 rise to end of drift & beginning of Rotten Ore then 20 ft dist - 5 ft rise to End of rotten ore & beginning of Rock Ore (Hardened slate) then 12 ft & 1 foot to * bordering Hamilton Creek

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July 5th

2d bed of Rotten Ore Then 7 Dist & 1 ft rise to end of rotten ore & beginning of layer Jaspery? Ore - 2 ft Dist level of Jaspery ore to Rotten Ore again Then 22 ft to End of pitall rotten ore; rise 2 ft-

From pit 1 to bridge along road 342 feet- Bridge about 100 feet - in the swamp [line drawn]

From Pit 1 to pit 2 = 442 ft Pit 2 is capped with Potsdam Sandstone

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[pencil sketch with text] Pit No 2

[left column] 20 6 35 6 40 6 25 2 [last numbers underlined] 120 20 [right bracket to the right of the column] [right column] 120 feet back of Pit 2 to top of ridge - Rise 20 feet-

Sandstone with evidence of drift-wearing no striae [line drawn]

200 feet from Pit 2 to pit 2 —

[left column] 25 12 20 6 35 6 13 — 6 10 — 2 [last numbers underlined] 100 32 [right bracket to the right of the column] From Marsh to beginning of Pit No 3 100 ft Rise 32

This pit has the quartz layers with specular ore

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July 5th

From Pit 3 to Pits 4 — in Red Sandstone 335 feet [line drawn]

Pit No 3 [pencil sketch with text]

Drift [box drawn aroubd "Drift"] 131 ft of slaty ore of various quantity to End of pit over the sides

From Mouth of pit-to rock 6 feet_Hard Iron Slate_ Then 30 feet-of the-rise to Quartzy[?] layer about 3 feet-thick Then Iron Slate

Drift 2 to 3 feet Large boulders

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Pits No 4 — A ["A" underlined] [left bracket] Nearest // the // hill Highly ferruginous rocks, porous -

All the pits along a ridge running nearly E & W.

3 pits about 60 feet apart

Pit 4 B - Siliceous Slate Iron Ore

Pit 4 C — Nob[?] through the drift - lies over the ridge

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July 5th

This [illegible] magnesium limestone is not formed in place here there is an abundance of it in the drift soil - one of the causes of the rich arboreal growth - [line drawn]

The bordering rocks on the north & south are not seen at the Breen Mine, hence we know not the breadth of the Iron Range - —May be as wide as in T. 40 ["T. 40" crossed out] (700 feet) as in 31-42-29 (Dr Credley)[?] & Sec 11-39-29- (same range) & 9-39-29 as

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July 6

Line of strike from pit 3 - runs 80 ft back of end of pit 2 and 100 feet back pit No 1 [line drawn]

Thomas Breen & others arrived in camp at night [line drawn]

Iron about 25 ft wide at Little Sturgeon falls west side opposite Lower Pier // Lunch point; [?] between Bromite [?] & Chlorite // Saxton

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Roofing slate on Muskos [?] river at the falls. west part of range [line drawn]

Beaver within 5 or 8 years Dam Cut down in 1868

Got samples of their work cutting trees at this dam July 7- 1872 much decayed. [line drawn]

Middle line of Sec 22 105 West of Pits No 4 & about 150 from N. Line to north bib [?] of Pap [?] No 4 [line drawn]