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the coal mines of Leggett, on the east, and Page, on the west side of the 

 same hill, are opened in this seam. In Leggett's mine the coal is from 

 four feet ten inches to five and a half feet thick, free from slate and 

 pyrites, and remarkably sound, so that it may be extracted in cubical 

 blocks of large size. Coal No. 6 is also met with at the school-house two 

 and a half miles south-west of Rockford, three and a half feet thick, and 

 at Raynsberger's, on the Leesburg road, near the county line, four feet 

 thick. 



South of Newcomerstown this is the only coal bed of importance met 

 with to the county line. It is first seen at the red school-house, just 

 south of the river, at one hundred and thirty- five feet above the railroad, 

 and is only two and a half feet thick. 



At the Berth settlement, in Oxford township, and along the valley of 

 Bird's Run, there are numerous openings on this seam, which ranges 

 from three and a half to three feet ten inches in thickness. 



In the valley of the Stillwater, south of Uhrichsville, as the strata dip 

 toward the south-east. Coal No. 6 soon passes beneath the surface and 

 disappears. 



At Newport it lies just above the water level, and was worked many 

 years ago, but contained so much sulphur as to be almost valueless as a 

 fuel, and copperas was made from the superabundant pyrites found in it. 



Going still further south, it is last heard of at Freeport, where it was 

 struck in a boring forty feet below the bottom lands of the Stillwater. 



At UhrichsTille, Coal No. 6 has been mined quite extensively for sev- 

 eral years by Mr. S. W. Andreas. The coal at his mine, which is on the 

 west side of town, lies forty-five feet above the railroad. It is similar in 

 character to that of Dennison, being four feet thick, with a parting 

 eighteen inches above the bottom. Mr. Andreas has also several ovens, 

 in which he cokes the small coal from his mine, supplying a fairly good 

 article to manufacturers and for shipment westward. 



At Lock 17, Coal No. 6 lies one hundred feet above the railroad, and is 

 the only bed worked here ; it is three and a half to four feet thick. At 

 a bluff on the canal, about a mile east of the town, a fine section is ex- 

 posed of the strata, from forty feet above Coal No. 6 down to twelve feet 

 below the Putnam Hill limestone. Twenty feet below No. 6 is a coal 

 seam two feet in thickness (No. 5), and seventy feet lower is the upper 

 limestone, one and a half feet thick, underlain by one foot of coal. The 

 Zoar limestone is said to be found in the bed of the river, and to have a 

 thin stratum of cannel under it. 



At Trenton and Newcastle, Coal No. 6 has been worked for many years, 

 and the product sent by canal to Cleveland. It has there established the 



