AREA HISTORY:  Mining Interest, Springfield Township, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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MINING INTEREST – Page 719

Springfield contains valuable deposits of iron ore.

The Feigley Bank, one and a half miles east of Loganville, has been very productive.  It was 
opened by Mr. Musselman in 1867.  Messrs. Denny, Nes & Kauffman, succeeded as lessees.  The 
ore, generally, is a limonite, finely disseminated through a mass of clay.  It occurs in 
irregular segregations through the clay, and is more than ninety per cent wash ore.  A dark 
blue compact and heavy argillaceous ore occurs here.  Under the proprietors named, 70,000 tons 
of ore were taken out in 1883 and 1884 by the Chiques Iron Company.

The Springfield Bank, adjoining the one described, is on the Brillhart farm.  It was opened by 
C. S. Kauffman, of Columbia, about 1870.  The Chiques Iron Company operated it since 1880, and 
have taken out 17,000 tons of ore, which was hauled to Glatfelter’s Station, Northern Central 
Railway, and shipped from that point by rail.  An interesting feature of these two banks 
described, is the occurrence in them of a fine bluish laminated limestone, containing white 
crystals scattered through it.

There are a number of other banks in the township.