Excerpt from A Report on the Geological Survey of Connecticut, 1837 A bed of excellent ore (5386) has long been known to exist in the southeastern part of Sharon on Buck's mountain, which is situa ted directly on the Housatonic river. The ore is half a mile dis tant from the river, and at least two hundred feet above the surface of the stream. It is said to have been traced in an uniform dirce tion for the distance of a mile. Where the excavations have been made, it has frequently shown a width of eighteen inches or two feet, though it appears often to contract within much narrower limits. The ore is entirely free from iron-pyrites, and even from earthy substances. Fifty tons of it were raised half a century ago, and successfully employed in forges; and a much larger quantity from the same mine only eight years since, commanded the price of five dollars per ton. Still the working of the bed is for the present abandoned as unprofitable, although the want of success in the last attempt is attributed by some to the fact that an injudicious part of the bed was selected for the experiment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.