STARK COUNTY. 331 



FEET. IN. 



1. Limestone 6 to 12 



2. Clay shale, not accurately measured, but supposed to be somewhere from. . . 5 " 10 



3. Limestone 4 



4. Clay 4 6 



5. Clay shale 8 4 



6. Limestone 2 4 



7. Clay shale 9 10 



8. Coal 2 



9. Clay shale 12 



10. Limestone 3 



11. Clay shale 8 



12. Limestone 2 



13. Clayshale : 4 5 



14. Coal No. 7? 2 7 



The limestone, No. 1 of this section, is reported to make, when properly 

 burned, an excellent lime for building purposes, being nearly equal to cement. 

 For plastering it is not so good, being too dark colored. For this and other in- 

 formation, I am indebted to A. B. Abbott, Esq., of Bradford. 



Of sandstone, there are a number of outcrops that have been worked in 

 this county. In section 16, township 14, range 6, there is a bed of this mate- 

 rial which lies some ten or fifteen feet above coal No. 6. The stone is light 

 colored and quite soft. In section 14, township 13, range 6, there is a stra- 

 tum of sandstone that lies a few feet below coal No. 6, and had furnished some 

 building stone of fair quality. In township 12, range 6, section 14, a quarry 

 has been opened whicn affords a harder stone, and is thought to be one of the 

 best sandstone quarries in the county. West of this, in section 17, there is 

 also a quarry which furnishes a fair article of building stone, and a dwelling 

 house in this vicinity which was erected quite a number of years ago, the ma- 

 terial being taken from this quarry, is still uninjured. Another sandstone 

 quarry was reported to have been opened on Walnut creek in section 20, 

 township 12, range 5. 



Coal. Stark county has an abundant supply of coal, which is at present de- 

 rived mainly from coal No. 6. It crops out along West Fork, in Elmira town- 

 ship, and Spoon river, in Toulon, at intervals for about twenty miles, and can, 

 probably, be found and worked along these streams and their tributaries, for 

 the whole distance. This coal varies in thickness from two and a-half to six 

 feet, seldom reaching either extreme, but averaging from three and a-half to 

 five feet. Immense quantities of coal have been taken from this seam at its 

 outcrops along the different streams. In Osceola township, one shaft has been 

 sunk near East Fork, and several others are partially completed. Shafts have 

 also been sunk at Medina, and near Wyoming, in Toulon, and at Cox's mill, 

 in Essex township. 



