The manuscript begins with 26 single sided typed pages of a gray buckram tabbed Index alphabetized A through Z. Within each alphabetic designation the items are sorted by the following topics: Iron Ores, Cinders, Scale, Slags, etc.; Limestone and Cement Rocks; Pig Iron, Steel, Castings etc. Each entry lists a page number where information can be found about the entry. Many of the entries are of iron mines and limestone quarries where assays of mineral content have been made and recorded on the numbered pages. Especially interesting are the names of locations no longer on maps as viable mines or quarries. There seems to be the same handwriting throughout and the black ink used is rather consistently used throughout indicating possibly that the book was compiled approximately at the same time although there is a great expanse of time with entries representing from 1856 to 1941.

Following the index are two blank pages.

Next are eight green edged pages beginning with the title “Analysis Note Book, prepared for the use of Chemists, Metallurgists and Mining Engineers, by B. F. Fackenthal, Jr., Durham Iron Works, Riegelsville, PA.” Philadelphia: William Mann, Printer and Lithographer, 529 Market Street. 1886. The subsequent green edged pages are headed: Table of Atomic Weights., Useful Multipliers., Fuel, Iron Ores, Limestone, Etc., Slag., Iron, Steel, Etc., Fire Clay, Bricks, Etc. – each of these pages have purple lines separating the page into sections.

Following these green edge pages is a single page with a typed list titled “Copies of Reports on Richard Mine” which is addressed to Mr. B. F. Fachenthal, Jr. President, Thomas Iron Company, First Report, December 26, 1896 by Sheldon Norton, James Arthur, L. C. Bierworth; Second Report, Wharton N.J. April 15, 1905 to Mr. D. H. Thomas, Gen. Supt. Hokendauqua, Pa. from James Arthur, Supt., Fred A. Canfield. These two reports typed on a single sheet denote the tons removed from several slopes of the mine.

The next section is composed of 428 numbered red ink ledger type pages filled with handwritten notation – the first page begins with the title “Richard Mine Rockaway Township, Morris County N.J. (1856-1912) and toward the end on page 425 is an insert glued into the signature concerning the John Fritz Mine – Province of Puerto Principe, Cuba sampled by B. F. Fackenthal, Jr. November 1905 with the mineral content found and a topographic map of the mine made by Miller A. Smith and W. H. Coverdale. The last page has an insert titled “Comparative Statement” containing analyses of steel, pig iron, iron ore; Bessemer and open hearth steel, from census of 1880; Pig iron, including Charcoal Pig and the costs involved to produce the product. Interspersed throughout are glued-in newspaper articles, printed photographs and typed notes and letterhead letters.