shallow depths to utilize the oxidized surface-ore, it may be presumed that many of these old openings will be found to contain, at varying depths beneath the surface, a considerable body of carbonate ore.
32. Oliver.33. Bratton.Mifflin county.
These two townships, lying immediately west of Granville and having Wayne township for their western boundary, may be appropriately treated together, inasmuch as they are bounded north and south by the same two mountain ranges which enclose the valley townships to the east and west of them.
The Juniata river divides them from one another; Oliver on the north and Bratton on the south. The Jack’s mountain line on the north is about 8 miles long, and cuts diagonally across the mountain from the Medina crest at the Granville line to the summit of the Oneida terrace where it passes into Huntingdon county.
The southern line of Bratton township deflects from the southeast corner at Minehart’s Gap from the south crest of the Blue Ridge or Licking Creek mountain, and passes southwestward for about 2 miles across Licking Creek valley and the Medina crest of the West Shade mountain, finally cornering on the high Oneida spur of the Black Log mountain anticlinal. From this point it follows the Black Log mountain in a straight line for a little over 7 miles to the southwest corner of the township, from which point the western township line strikes at right angles for 7 miles across the Lewistown valley to the crest of Jack’s mountain.
It will thus be seen that the combined area of these two townships approximates 55 square miles, Oliver township being slightly the larger. The Juniata river flows through both townships from Manayunk or Ryde Station on the west to Lockport on the east, pursuing a sinuous course through the Clinton and Salina rocks, which are present through a large part of Bratton township, and the southern side of Oliver.
Mc Veytown, situated on the north bank of the river, about 7 miles by railroad west of Lewistown, is the only
