lOtJ COLUMBIANA COUNTY. 



or wanting, but without further explorations this question can not be 

 satisfactorily decided. Borings made in the vicinity are reported to have 

 passed through a workable seam of coal from forty to sixty feet below the 

 surface. This is, perhaps, the Big Vein (No. 6), here showing the com- 

 mencement of the rapid dip which carries it down to the level of the 

 station at Salineville. 



The Sandy and Beaver Canal, now abandoned, runs from Lynchburg, 

 past Hanover, on about the same level, to the high land which separates 

 the head-waters of the Little Beaver and Sandy. The canal passes this 

 divide through a tunnel which forms the summit level. The rock exca- 

 vated in this tunnel is a massive light-colored sandstone, but the hills of 

 the divide are mainly composed of the gray or greenish shales of the 

 Barren Measures. The highest land between Hanover and Dungannon 

 is, according to barometric observation, one hundred and seventy-five 

 feet above Hanover Station, or seven hundred and fifteen feet above Lake 

 Erie. East of Dungannon, the tributaries of the West Fork of Little 

 Beaver cut down valleys where coal is mined in several places. The ex- 

 posures are here very imperfect, and in the time at command it was 

 impossible to determine the relations of the strata shown here with those 

 exposed in other parts of the county. 



On the farms of Messrs. Copeland and Thompson, near the corners of 

 Franklin, Hanover, Center, and "W ayne townships, the following sections 

 were obtained : 



Section'. ON Farm of J. J. Copeland. 



FT, IN. 



1. Shale, containing coal one foot thick near top, and black at bottom. 60 



2. Coal 3 



3. Fire-clay and shale 40 



4. Limestone, with iron ore 3-5 



5. Coal 1 



6. Sandstone 20 



7. Coal 1 



Section on Thompson's Farm. 



IT. IS. 



1. Slope (covered) 30 



2. Coal 3i 



3. Fire-clay and shale 40 



4. Limestone ; 3-5 



5. Coal 4 



6. Fire-clay.. 1 



7. Sandstone 20 



8. Coal 1 6 



9. Fire-clay and shale 15 



10. Limestone in bed of creek 



