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Coal No. 4 is the seam that was formerly worked by Mr. J. A. Saxton, 

 near Sandyville, and this, with the overlying limestone, is traceable 

 from that point northward up the valley of the Nimishillin to Canton 

 and Greentown, and up the vallt y of the Sandj', as far as Oneida. Going 

 south from Sandyville the limestone and Coal No. 4 are seen at Zoar, 

 about fifty feet above the river, the coal thin, the limestone, as usual, 

 from three to four feet thick. 



At Mineral Point, Coal No. 4 lies below the railroad, and at Zoar Sta- 

 tion about fifty feet above. At Canal Dover the limestone crops out on 

 the hillside, between the Sugar Creek Fait well and the mouth of the 

 mine in Coal No. 5, which supplies the fuel for the salt works. 



At New Philadelphia the limestone may be seen all along the base of 

 the hills east of the valley, but the coal is either thin or absent. In the 

 road from New Philadelphia to the Goshen salt well, it exhibits the 

 phase which is seen at Newcastle, Coshocton countyf and at Flint Ridge, 

 Licking county — that is, it becomes much thicker than usual, and more 

 shal}', breaking up into thin plates, which, by exposure, lose their blue 

 color, and become brown or yellow. Here, as elsewhere, it contains many 

 fossil shells, among which may be mentioned Chonetes mefoloba, Spirifer 

 cavieratus, Productvs semireticulalus, Athyris suhtilita, Spirifer lineatus, etc. 



In the valley of the Conotton, Coal No. 4 is found outcropping at the 

 base of the hills, all the way from Scott's Mills to New Cumberland 



At Trenton it lies some twenty feet above the railroad, and at Patter- 

 son's ore-shoot, three miles below Port Washington, twenty feet above 

 the canal. In tracing it further south, it is found continuously through 

 Coshocton and Licking counties, overlying the cannel, near Warsaw, in 

 Coshocton, and at Flint Ridge, in Licking. This is also the Putnam 

 Hill limestone of Zanesville, and it reaches thence southward to the Ohio. 



The coal beneath this limestone is exceedingly variable in thickness 

 and quality. At Greentown, on the north line of Stark county, it is 

 four to five feet thick, bituminous and good; at Canton four feet thick, 

 of fair quality, but rather slaty, and contains considerable sulphur. 



At Browning's Mills, six miles below, on the Nimishillen, it is six feet 

 in thickness, very slaty, containing much sulphur, and is pa-rtly an im- 

 pure cannel. At Sandyville, where mined by Mr. Saxton, it varies in 

 thickness from two to four feet, and is of medium quality. 



At Kelley's Point, on the Tuscarawas Branch Railroad, it is two and a 

 half feet thick, a good cannel ; ne^r Mineral Point, one and a half to two 

 feet thick, bituminous ; in the valley of the Conotton, three miles above 

 its mouth, five feet thick, slaty and worthless; at Lock 17, one foot in 

 thickness. In the Dennison well it is reported to be five and a half feet 

 thick ; in the Urichsyille well, seven feet. In the valley of the Killbuck 



