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in Mahoning county, and I am rather inclined to believe that we have 

 in the Hartford seam the extension eastward of this so well known coal. 

 Its positioiji is more concordant with that idea, as are its chemical and 

 physical characters. On this supposition the Achor cannel is either an 

 intercalated and local deposit, or is a phase of Coal No. 5. It will be 

 noticed that the latter seam is wanting in the section taken at Bald 

 Knob, and the cannel holds about its proper place ; but at a short dis- 

 tance from this locality, on the farm of Isaac Dyke, Coal No. 5 is found in 

 position, and is a bituminous coal two feet in thickness, showing no tend- 

 eiicy to run into cannel. It should also be said that Mr. Dyke reports a 

 heavy seam of impure cannel in the creek bed below. One noticeable 

 feature of the Achor cannel is, that it has no fire-clay beneath it, and 

 this would seem to indicate that it was not a true coal seam, but only a 

 very highly carbonized bituminous shale. 



The abundance and excellence of the coals about Achor will doubtless, 

 before long, prove sufficiently attractive to draw some railroad line through 

 this region. When this shall happen, and its mineral wealth shall be 

 more fully explored, the questions I have raised will be set at rest. Until 

 the coal seams are more extensively and connectedly opened, any solution 

 now offered must be merely provisional. 



In the bed of Leslie's Run, in sections 2 and 11, Middleton township, 

 a ferriferous limestone and a coal seam are showji. The coal is, apparent- 

 ly, of very little value. The limestone is earthy, and contains large num- 

 bers of fossil shells. Associated with it, but below, are heavy beds of 

 nodular iron ore, which are well shown near the saw-mill. The same 

 deposit of iron is seen in the land of Abraham Beatty and Charles Beard, 

 in section 25, and of J. F. M'Cowan and J. Baxter, on section 35, of Mid- 

 dleton township. These ore beds mark one of the great iron horizons 

 that run through western Pennsylvania and a large part of the coal 

 region of Ohio. 



Analyses of the coals and ore of the vicinity of Achor will be found on 

 another page. 



It is greatly to be regretted that this portion of the county, so rich in 

 mineral resources, should not have better means of transportation by 

 whiph its wealth could be made available to the inhabitants. 



As I have mentioned in other portions of the report, in an oil well 

 bored at Cameron's Mill, on Bull Creek, a seam of coal four feet in thick- 

 ness was penetrated at the depth of one hundred and sixty-six feet from 

 the surface. This was probably Coal No. 1, as, if I am correctly informed 

 in regard to the place of the well, the boring was begun very near the 

 leyel of the blue limestone and Coal No. 3, both of which come out in the 



