104 COLUMBIANA COUNTY. 



Hanover and Vicinity. — The north-western portion of Columbiana county, 

 including the townships of Knox, Butler, West, and Hanover, is all high 

 land, and, as has been mentioned, this forms a portion of the divide be- 

 tween the waters of the Ohio and those of Lake Erie. The altitude of 

 the valley is generally more than five hundred feet above the Lake, while 

 the hills rise from one hundred to two hundred feet above this level. 

 Notwithstanding its general elevation, this is the only portion of the 

 county in which any deposits of Drift occur. At and north of Hanover* 

 the surface is in many places strewn with bowlders of northern origin, 

 and heavy beds of sand and gravel, and sometimes of clay, cover the unr 

 derlying rocks. The Drift coating is, however, generally thin and irregu- 

 lar, and the materials which compose it are coarse. 



Coal No. 6 is the seam which is generally mined in this part of the 

 county. This may be traced through from Paris and Mapleton, in Stark 

 county, to New Franklin, near which place it is well shown at Courtney's 

 mine. Here the coal is five feet ten inches in thickness, soft, and black, 

 -with considerable sulphur. It has a slate parting eighteen inches above 

 the bottom, and lies at an altitude of five hundred and seventy-five feet 

 above Lake Erie. 



Crossing the railroad at Moultrie, Coal No. 6 is first opened in Colum- 

 biana county at New Chambersburg, in the mine of Jacob Milburn. 

 Here it lies at about the same level as at New Franklin, namely, seventy- 

 five feet above the railroad at Moultrie. The coal is six feet thick, rather 

 soft, but bright, black, and handsome, containing a moderate amount of 

 sulphur. A thin parting of shale lies from twelve to eighteen inches 

 above the bottom. The roof is gray shale, containing a great number of 

 impressions of fossil plants. Below it is fire-clay and an impure lime- 

 stone. 



From the examination which I have had made of the Chambersburg 

 eoal, I infer that it would make excellent coke; and from its proximity 

 to the railroad, if this should prove true, it would have great value as a 

 source of supply of fuel to the Cleveland furnaces. 



In the interval between New Chambersburg and Rochester, the hills 

 rise to the height of from six hundred and seventy-five to six hundred 

 and ninety feet above the Lake, and the surface is generally covered with 

 Drift. Large bowlders of cherty limestone were seen on the hillsides at 

 a higher level than Coal No. 6, but were not traced to their source. Coal 

 No. 6 is opened half a mile east of Chambersburg, is there five feet in 

 thickness, and is said to be found in all the valleys of the vicinity. At 

 Rochester it is mined chiefly by William Somerville. At his opening 

 the coal lies fifty feet above Rochester Station, is four and a half tfeet 



