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A few feet below is Coal No. 3, from three to four feet in thickness, 

 rather soft and sulphurous; its limestone lies just above it. 



At Salem the railroad station is six hundred and twenty feet above 

 Lake Erie, and the hills on the south rise considerably higher. These 

 contain Coal No. 6 from three to five feet in thickness, but it is sparingly 

 mined and only for local use. Its limestone is found under it, and is 

 conspicuously shown on the road from Salem to New Lisbon. Within 

 the town limits of Salem a shaft has been sunk to the depth of two 

 hundred and seven feet. The section obtained is as follows : 



FT. IN. 



1 Earth 9 7 



2. Red slialy sandstone 9 



3. Black thiile 1 6 



4. Slaty coal : 6 



5. Sandstone 39 



6. Klacksliale 20 6 



7. Grayshale 21 4 



8. Coal, Leetonia seam (No. 4) 2 6 



9. Fire-clay 11 9 



10. Gray sandstone 1 5 



11. Clay shale 3 6 



12. Gray sandy shale SO H 



13. Blue calcareous coal, with shells 2 



14. Coal, with patting of two inches one foot from bottom (No. 3) 5 



15. Fire-clay 1 9 



16. White sandstone (i 3 



17. Clay shale 7 8 



18. Blackshale 1 



19. Coal 1 6 



20. Fire-clay 20 3 



21. Iron ore 1 



22. Shale : 13 3 



23. Dark sandrock 6 7 



In the above section the Leetonia coal is the first workable seam pene- 

 trated. It is here similar in character to what it is at Washingtonville 

 and Leetonia, but somewhat less pure. The thicker coal below is of 

 inferior quality, containing more sulphur, but serves a good purpDse for 

 steam and household use. The upper coal has been quite largely coked, 

 but has not produced a fuel equal in quality to that made at Leetonia, 

 and the working of the mine has, for this reason, been temporarily sus- 

 pended. The use of the coal taken from the Salem shaft has also been 

 limited by the sale in the town of the coal mined at Albany, in the 

 edge of Mahoning county. The latter coal is the Leetonia seam, here of 

 unusual thickness and excellence. , It is to be regretted that the boring 

 which preceded the sinking of the Salem shaft had not been carried 



