PORTAGE COUNTY, 143 



FT. IN. 



4. Coal 1 10 



5. Fire-clay .' ? 



6. Sandrook 30 



7. Shale 10 



In this boring the upper limestone coal was absent, or so thin as not to 

 attract notice. The lower limestone was absent, as seems to be the case 

 generally in this vicinity. The place of the lower coal was not reached 

 by from seventy-five to one hundred feet. Another hole was bored by 

 Wm. Crannage, for Mr. Geo. Worthington, of Cleveland, without finding 

 the coal sought for, but was almost certainly not carried to a sufficient 

 depth. 



A well sunk near the quarries on Limestone Ridge is said to have 

 passed through — 



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1. Limestone 4 



2. Shale, with plants and thin seams of coal 20 



3. Sandrook to hottom. 



Here it is evident that the place of the twenty-two-inch seam was not 

 reached. 



Half a mile north-east of Drakesburgh a well showed the following 

 strata : 



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1. Earth 14 



2. Shale 30 



3. Sandrook, to bottom 26 



In this well the excavation was probably begun below the limestone 

 coals, but it did not descend to the level of the lower coal. 



At Hiram Center a yellow sandrock of the Coal Measures is quarried 

 just back of the hotel. South of the Center, about one mile, shale crops 

 out in the road below this sandrock. Near this point, but west and on 

 higher ground, a well on Mr. Hopkins's land gave— 



FT. 



1. Earth 9 



2. Sandrock 15 



3. Shale, with one foot of coal 40 



4. ''Flagstone," to bottom 3 



Stratum No. 4 of this section was called by the drillers " bottom 

 rock ;" but in this vicinity no proof should be accepted of having passed 

 the place of the lower coal, except reaching the Conglomerate. 



In the south part of Hiram, coal has been taken from a natural out- 

 crop twelve to eighteen inches thick, and used by the blacksmiths. 

 This is probably Coal No. 1. 



