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be four and a half feet thick, the upper part cannel, and all containing 

 much ash and sulphur. The enterprise was, therefore, abandoned. 



I am informed by Mr. Watson, Secretary of the Glasgow-Port Wash- 

 ington Iron and Coal Company, that several holes will be bored on the 

 property of this company, to determine the question of the presence or 

 absence of the lower seam. Although the lower coal, along its western 

 line of outcrop is decidedly inferior to what it is in the Tuscarawas and 

 Mahoning valleys, and borings give but little encouragement that it 

 will be found of workable thickness, still the breadth of unexplored ter- 

 ritory surrounding Port Washington is so great that explorations there 

 would be almost in a new field, and they may be attended with success. 

 It should be said, however, that the facts before us seem to indicate that 

 Coal No. 1 was deposited only along the margin of the basin, as in no 

 case, up to the present time, has it been found of workable thickness far 

 from its line of outcrop. 



Coal No. 3. 



There is little doubt that, if the base of the Coal Measures was fully 

 exposed in Tuscarawas county, there would be found here, as in Stark 

 and Holmes, a thin seam of coal, lying from fifty to one hundred feet 

 above Coal No. 1. It is, however, rarely of workable thickness, and as 

 almost nothing is known of its presence or importance in the county, it 

 requires here no further notice- 



The rocks associated with this coal are shales and sandstones, which 

 vary much in their relative development, and in their mineral charac- 

 ters. There is frequently, however, a heavy bed of sandstone above the 

 lower coal, and separated from it by a greater or less thickness of shale. 

 This sandstone is best shown in the valley of the Tuscarawas, about 

 Massillon, and we have, therefore, named it the Massillon sandstone. In 

 Tuscarawas county, this everywhere lies below the surface, unless it may 

 be on Sugar Creek, near Deardoff 's mill. 



At a distance of about one hundred and fifty feet above Coal No. 1, we 

 find Coal No. 3, beneath the first of the two limestones which run almost 

 continuously around the margin of the coal basin, from the Pennsyl- 

 vania line to the Ohio. The distance between these limestones varies 

 from thirtV to one hundred feet. In Tuscarawas county, they are usually 

 from fifty to eighty feet apart, and a bed of coal is generally found 

 beneath each — sometimes immediately under it, sometimes separated 

 from it by a few inches or feet of shale. 



It is only in the northern part of the county that Coal No. 3, and the 

 Zoar limestone, which overlies it, are exposed. In the valley of Sugar 



