Mine Hill in Franklin and Sterling Hill in Ogdensburg, Sussex County, New Jersey

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Mine Hill in Franklin and Sterling Hill in Ogdensburg, Sussex County, New Jersey: Mining History, 1765-1900
By Pete J. Dunn. Published (2002-2003) by Dr. Pete J. Dunn
Softcover 8.5 X 11 inches, 1102 pages, seven volumes plus a Prospectuses volume, softcover 8.5 X 11 inches, 108 pages.
Weight in kilograms and pounds: 4.6kg - 10lbs.
Here we have a stupendous reference work of historical information about the famous Franklin and Sterling Hill mining district and the immediate vicinity. There is nary any complied, inclusive, historical literature about the very long mining history of the district and Pete Dunn had labored to assemble such information into 1102 pages with citations, references and illustrations. A review can be found here, muse.jhu.edu/article/192293.
This is only sold as a COMPLETE SET and the price is .00 for the entire set.
Pete J. Dunn was a museum specialist and mineralogist in the Smithsonian’s Department of Mineral Sciences from 1972 until he retired in January, 2008. Prior to his arrival at the Museum of Natural History, he was a curator in the Geology Department at Boston University. He completed his Master’s degree in mineralogy at Boston University and his Ph.D. in mineralogy/geology from the University of Delaware. During his time at the Smithsonian, Pete was internationally recognized for his research on the mineral collection that resulted in descriptions of 134 new minerals. He had a particular passion for the complicated and fascinating geology and mineralogy of the Franklin-Sterling Hill mining district in New Jersey, publishing more than 70 scientific papers and a nine-volume monograph that are among the definitive scientific works for that locality for researchers, collectors and the public. Pete retired in January 2008 and immediately returned to the Museum as an Information Desk volunteer and served as scientist and volunteer in the Museum of Natural History for 45 years. Pete Dunn passed away on November 8, 2017.
Vol. 1
Introduction
Local iron mining and processing: general overview of the early years
Local charcoal—fueled iron forges and furnaces
Magnetite deposits and iron mines in the Franklin-Sterling Hill area
Regional iron ore deposits: their geology and mining
The Franklin furnace: its life and death
The Franklin Furnace Company
The Franklin Manufacturing Company
Dr. Samuel Fowler’s mineral rights
The Ames family and the Franklin furnace
The zinc deposits at Franklin and Sterling Hill
General introduction to the deposits
Early scientific observations from the literature
Testimony of scientists on the separations of beds
The Franklin and Sterling Hill zinc deposits: discovery, early history, and early workings
The Stirling Tract and the Ogden Divisions
Dr. Samuel Fowler
Transactions of the Ogden and Fowler families
Colonel Samuel Fowler and his acquisitions
The Standards of Weights and Measures
Mineral exploitation: status report at mid-century
Retrospective and prospective views
The 1850s: the period of greatest change at Franklin and Sterling Hill
The rise of communities
Vol. 2
Oakes Ames, Cyrus Alger, and Colonel Samuel Fowler
Colonel Fowler’s acquisition of critical mineral-rights
The Sussex Zinc and Copper Mining and Manufacturing Company
The New Jersey Exploring and Mining Company
The Sterling Hill Mine Tract and the Sterling Mine Tract
Prospecting for zinc ore
The New Jersey Zinc Company from the early years to 1862: incorporation, acquisitions, prospectus, and mining at Franklin and Sterling Hill
Using the ores of Franklin and Sterling Hill
Experimental smelting and new furnaces
Experimentation with franklinite and anthracite: a new blast furnace
"Franklinite iron" and other manufactured products
Joint stock associations
Small companies on zinc-barren lands
Miscellaneous small companies
The Passaic Mining and Manufacturing Company and the Passaic Zinc Company: mining at Sterling Hill and Mine Hill, and smelting in Jersey City
Vol. 3
Mid-century zinc-mining companies on lots #10, #11, #12, and #13 at Sterling Hill: 1833 to 1854
Cleveland and Van Hosen at Sterling Hill
The New Jersey Zinc and Copper Mining and Manufacturing Company at Sterling Hill
The National Paint Company at Sterling Hill
Brooks and Stilwell at Sterling Hill
The Sussex Iron Company at Sterling Hill
The manipulators: Oakes Ames, Colonel Samuel Fowler, and James L. Curtis
The Franklinite Mining Company in Franklin: its deceptive status and its most important acquisitions
The East-West Line
The New Jersey Franklinite Company in Franklin
The new 1854-1855 anthracite-based Franklin furnace
Alexander Farrington: making zillc oxide in Franklin
Oakes Ames’s foreclosure of the New Jersey Franklinite Company in Franklin
The Boston Franklinite Company in Franklin and the involvement of Oakes Ames
Mineral-rights litigation: the curse of Franklin and Sterling Hill
The New Jersey Franklinite Company and the New Jersey Zinc Company
Seeds of conflict: two firms mining in the same hole
The Southwest Opening at Franklin
The first great lawsuit: the Great Franklinite Case
The New Jersey Zinc Company from 1862 to 1880
Mining at Sterling Hill and Franklin
The economic use of willemite
A contract between the New Jersey Zinc Company and the Lehigh Zinc Company
Iron interests in Franklin and vicinity: from dynamic growth to the last breath
The Boston Franklinite Company: its foreclosure and continuation
Oakes Ames, Edmund Miller, and Abram Hewitt
Moses Taylor and his personal holdings on Mine Hill Farm
A consortium: Moses Taylor, William E. Dodge, Joseph H. Scranton, and John I. Blair
The Taylor-led consortium’s acquisition and control of the Boston Franklinite Company
The critical entry of the railroads: the iron-horse comes to Franklin
The Franklin Iron Company and its great furnace
The end of Franklin’s iron industry
Vol. 4
Emerging complexities: 1853-1863
The Sterling Zinc Company
The Franklinite Steel Company at Sterling Hill
The Fowler Franklinite Company at Franklin
The Consolidated Franklinite Company (of New York)
The Consolidated Franklinite Company (of New Jersey)
The first sale of the National Paint Company’s mineral rights at Sterling Hill
Sterling Hill revisited: 1863-1871
A lawsuit for non-compliance with lease
The court-ordered liquidation of the
Consolidated Franklinite Company (of New Jersey)
The Franklinite Steel Company
The Consolidated Exploring and Mining Company
The Trenton Zinc Company and the Mercer Zinc Works
John S. Noble and the Noble Mine
Lawsuit concerning lot #10 at Sterling Hill
Lot #10 at Sterling Hill: 1871-1878
The Franklinite Steel and Zinc Company: its acquisitions and leasings
Charles W. Trotter and James L. Curtis: intricate deeds
John Silsby and James L. Curtis: Trotter’s betrayal
The Trotter Tumlel on lot #10 at Sterling Hill
Lot #10 at Sterling Hill 1877-1887
A lawsuit at Sterling Hill
The Manganese Iron Ore Company
Additional lawsuits at Sterling Hill 7
Settlement: Charles W. Trotter and the Manganese Iron Ore Company
William A. Leavitt, Arthur F. Allen, Edward Cooper, and Abram Hewitt
The south half of Mine Hill Farm in Franklin
Moses Taylor’s iron and franklinite interests
Moses Taylor’s pivotal lawsuit against the New Jersey Zinc Company
Moses Taylor’s contract with the Passaic Zinc Company
The New Jersey Zinc Company’s lawsuit directed against Moses Taylor
An agreement between Moses Taylor and the New Jersey Zinc Company
The creation of the New Jersey Zinc and Iron Company
Vol. 5
The New Jersey Zinc Company after 1880: receivership and liquidation
The New Jersey Zinc and Iron Company after 1880: growth and acquisitions
Mining operations at Franklin and Sterling Hill after 1880
The rich Taylor Mine: the greatest Franklin lode
The Manufacturers’ Railroad and the Mine Hill Railroad
The north half of Mine Hill Farm in Franklin
The Franklinite Mining Company
The Fowler Franklillite Company
The Bristol Franklinite Company
Minor litigation on the north half of Mine Hill Farm
Charles W. Trotter and the very valuable Trotter leases
Edwin Wilson, Jacob Casselbury, and William Leavitt
Major litigation on the north half of Mine Hill Farm
Pennsylvanian interests in Franklin and Sterling Hill
The Pennsylvania and Lehigh Zinc Company
Samuel Wetherill, Joseph Wharton, and the Wetherill Zinc Company
The Lehigh Zinc Company of Pennsylvania
Charles August Heckscher and John Price Wetherill
The Lehigh Zinc and Iron Company, Limited, of 1881
The critical contract: Heckscher and Trotter, June 2, 1881
The north half of Mine Hill Farm in Franklin
The Trotter-Wetherill-Heckscher correspondence and the seeds of unrest
from cooperation to conflict
The entry of the Lehigh Zinc and Iron Company
The threat to seize the Trotter Mine
The north half of Mine Hill Farm in Franklin
Continuing conflict: the Lehigh Company and Trotter
Charles W. Trotter and the Trotter Mine
Charles W. Trotter and the Passaic Zinc Company
The Lehigh Company seizes the Trotter Mine
A great battle: the Great Possession Lawsuit begins
Vol. 6
The north half of Mine Hill Farm in Franklin
The Franklinite Steel and Zinc Company’s 1882 lawsuit
Charles August Heckscher’s dealings with the Franklinite Steel and Zinc Company
The New Jersey Zinc Company’s reformation lawsuit
A Final settlement: Charles W. Trotter, the New Jersey Zinc Company, and the New Jersey Zinc and Iron Company
The north half of Mine Hill Farm in Franklin
Charles W. Trotter, August Heckscher, and the
Lehigh Zinc and Iron Company
The Trotter Mine possession case: the fmal acts
A critique of the Trotter Mine
The intensive and conclusive period of litigation
The great settlement between Charles W. Trotter, August Heckscher, and the Lehigh Zinc and Iron Company
The Lehigh Zinc and Iron Company
The Lehigh Zinc and Iron Company ’s Bethlehem smelter
The Lehigh Mine on Mine Hill Farm in Franklin
Richard Wayne Parker, Charlotte Rutherford, and the northern part of the east limb at Mine Hill
Joseph A. Van Mater and the drilling program
Samuel Price Wetherill and his acquisitions
The Sterling Iron and Zinc Company
The Parker Shaft, Parker Mine, and Parker Mill
The Wetherill magnetic separator
The Florence Zinc Company in Pennsylvania
The critical and final 19th-century mining litigations on Mine Hill Farm
The seeds of Palmerton’s creation
The earlier consolidations
The Great Consolidation of 1897
I: The corporate mergers
II: The shareholders’ lawsuits
III: The “new” New Jersey Zinc Company, its exports to Europe, and the New Jersey Zinc Company (of Pa.)
IV: The situation on the ground: many mines unconnected, and great needs for linkages
George Rowe and social renewal at Franklin
Company mining towns: Franklin and Ogdensburg
Palmerton, Pennsylvania - “Zinc City”
Vol. 7
Post-consolidation activities: loose ends and messy matters
The settlement of the Richard W. Parker matters
Residual mineral-rights and their disposition
The Franklin Zinc Company, the National Zinc Corporation, the New Jersey Mineral Company, the Sussex Calcite Company, and the Franklin Mineral Company
The greatest scoundrel at Franklin and Sterling Hill. James L. Curtis: the archetypical machinator
Sacred places and hallowed grounds: mining, men, and mineral collecting
Addenda
Appendixes
Index
Prospectuses volume contents
Introduction
The New Jersey Zinc Company (1852)
The National Paint Company (1855)
The New Jersey Franklinite Company (1855)
The Consolidated Franklinite Company (of New York) (1859)
Franklinite and a national foundry (1862)
The Jersey Franklinite Company (1876)
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