STARK COUNTY. 161 



This boring began at the horizon of the lower limestone seam, Coal 

 No. 3. Coal No. 2 is probably represented by No. 18, here of unusual 

 thickness. No. 20 probably represents the Massillon sandstone ; and the 

 place of Coal No. 1 is at No. 22. The f^hales at the bottom of the well 

 probably belong to the Waverly series, the Conglomerate being here 

 wanting. 



On the eastern line of the county few borings have been made which 

 can be depended upon for giving any accurate information. At Lima- 

 ville, in the north-eastern corner of the county, the Briar Hill coal has 

 been struck by Dr. L. J. Dales in several holes. These borings, and that 

 made by Mr. Schwalm, at Canton, show that the belief, so frequently ex- 

 pressed, that no valuable deposits of the Massillon coal exist east of the 

 Tuscarawas River, is without a solid foundation, and I feel justified in 

 predicting that hereafter some most important and valuable coal basins 

 will be reached in the eastern portion of the county, and where their 

 presence is not now suspected. The borings made at Limaville by Dr. 

 Dales show the lower coal of workable thickness. It exists over a con- 

 siderable area in that vicinity, as it was found in a number of holes run- 

 ning with great regularity. The register of one of these has been fur- 

 nished me by Dr. Dales. The well was located near Limaville Station, 

 the well-head ten feet above, or five hundred and seventy feet above Lake 

 Erie. The coal was struck one hundred and sixty-five feet from the sur- 

 face, or four hundred and five feet above the Lake. This shows a dip of 

 about one hundred feet from the nearest outcrop of the coal in Tallmadge, 

 eighteen miles north of west, and about the same dip from the vicinity 

 of Ravenna, fifteen miles due north; but the coal lies higher here than 

 at Massillon, south-west, or Youngstown, north-east; a fact due, doubtless^ 

 to one of the folds which traverse our coal field, and which has been fre- 

 quently referred to in the earlier volumes of this report. 



The section of one of Dr. Dales's wells is as follows : 



HT. IN. 



1. Surface deposits 45 



2. Sandstone 40 



3. Fire-clay '- -' 



4. Black shale 3 



5. Blue and gray shale 2~'i- 



6. Black shale 1 



7. Gray shale '<il 



8. Hard black shale H 



9. Darkshale 7 4 



10. Grayshale 7 6 



11. Coal 4 



An old coal mine, south-west of Limaville, is opened on Coal No. 4, 



here four feet ten inches thick, in two benches, with a slate parting ; 

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