Iron mine (Chapel Hill)

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1. by December 10, 1896 The Greensboro Steel and Iron Company leases the iron mine at Chapel Hill The Greensboro Steel and Iron Company leased the iron mine at Chapel Hill, whose high-grade ore it meant to use in its furnaces. Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), December 10, 1896, p. 2
2. by late November 1899 New machinery is installed at the Chapel Hill iron mine Machinery ordered for the iron mine at Chapel Hill arrived and was being installed, with the main shaft nearly 100 feet deep. A Captain Ewing said the ore would average 50 per cent pure iron. Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), November 30, 1899, p. 3
3. by February 8, 1900 Miners strike a vein of ore 120 feet thick at the Chapel Hill iron mine Miners at the iron mine at Chapel Hill, leased by the Empire Iron and Steel Works of Greensboro, struck a vein of ore 120 feet thick. A shaft was being sunk to 200 feet with tunnels every 40 feet, and the mine was expected to turn out 200 tons a day once it was done. Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), February 8, 1900, p. 2

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