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aEOLOGY OF OHIO. 



Coal Measures, at one or another locality in Tuscarawas county, furnish 

 good building stone, and it may be said that no part of the State is better 

 supplied with building materials of all kinds. The white sandstone, to 

 which reference is made in a preceding paragraph, would makfe a very 

 beautiful and durable building stone; perhaps the handsomest of any 

 yet known in the county. At Mineral Point, a sandstone which liesf 

 between Coals No. 4 and No. 5, has been quarried to some extent, and 

 shows well. About Urichsville the Mahoning sandstone, which overlies 

 Coal No. 6, has also been shown to be well adapted to building purposes. 

 Indeed, there is no considerable area within the county limits where a. 

 buffer brown sandstone, similar to those last mentioned, cannot be easily 

 and cheaply obtained. 



Salt. — In a review of the mineral resources of Tuscarawas county, salt 

 should not be omitted. It is now produced in considerable]quantity frona 

 brine raised at several wells in the vicinity of Canal Dover. These wells 

 begin at nearly the same horizon— about two hundred feet above the base 

 of the Coal Measures— and are sunk to nearly the same depth (about 

 nine hundred feet). The salt-water is derived apparently from the same 

 strata in the Waverly group. In the Sugar Creek well, which has a 

 depth of eight hundred and ninety-four feet, the salt rock, a porous sand- 

 stone, was reached at eight hundred and eighty-six feet ; while in the 

 Goshen well, which is nine hundred and fourteen feet deep, the salt-water 

 was obtained at the depth of eight hundred and sixty-five feet. 



The strength of the brine is 10° Beaum^, 40° of the salometer, and it 

 is estimated that seven barrels of water produced one barrel of salt == 280 

 pounds := 5J bushels of 53 pounds each — the bushel being fifty pounds, 

 but three more are packed to allow for drying. 



The daily production at the Sugar Creek well is said to be from sixty- 

 five to seventy barrels; that of the G-oshen well was about forty-five bar- 

 rels at the time of my visit. The flow of water is strong in both, and 

 the production might be increased. From the former well, considerable 

 gas escapes which is used for heating and lighting, and contributes 

 toward the pumping. The daily comsumption of coal in addition ie 

 about eighteen tons. 



The Sugar Creek well is owned and operated by Mr. J. 8. Deardoff; the 

 ■Goshen well by Messrs. Scott and Kennedy. 



Bromine. — In the process of manufacturing salt, a considerable quantity 

 of bromine is produced. After the crystallization of the salt, the bitter 

 water is drawn off, and evaporated to 45° Beaum^ ; it is then distilled in 

 a special apparatus. The product from one hundred and eighty gallons 

 of the bitter water (the capacity of the still) is said to be fourteen or fif- 



