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Pilot Knob Missouri iron is famous. Equally remarkable is
the Pilot Knob in Madison County of that State. Pilot Knob is 700 feet
high, and from the elevation of 500 feet to the summit is naked
body of ore, free of earth and stone, singularly traversed and
intersected by cracks or veins, as if in a freak of nature to facilitate the
quarrying and removing the treasure. The property is owned and
worked by a joint stock company, whose possessions extend to 15,000 acres of land. Boston Evening Transcript -
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