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ooal constitutes a great source of wealth to the county, and is the main- 

 spring of many industries ; but the fact should be recognized that this is 

 a capital which is daily being exhausted, and, when exhausted, can 

 never be reproduced. All the coal basins now known about Massillon 

 will be worked out within a generation, and although new discoveries 

 will certainly be made, and much territory will become productive where 

 the coal is not now supj^osed to exist, still the value of the coal is so great 

 and the consumption of it so rapidly increasing, that it is to be feared 

 not many years will elapse before the supply from this region will be ex- 

 hausted. 



Among the most encouraging results of recent explorations about Mas- 

 sillon is the discovery of an important basin of coal two miles south of 

 the town, on the west side of the river. How large an area in this vicin- 

 itj- is undeilain by coal of workable thickness is not yet known, but 

 every thing indicates that this is one of the most important basins known 

 in the region. 



I give below the register of two of the several holes bored for Beatty, 

 Uhlendorfi' & Burk: 



Well No. 1 (Begun 111 Feet above the EmsR). 



FT. IN. 



1. Earlli 49 



'J. Vwllow siindrock 4 



■■',. BhK-k shale 3 6 



4. Coal 4 



5. Yelldr.- saudrock 1 7 



G. Coal smut 1 1 



7. Saudrock 4 



ei. Coal smut 1 



9. Sandrock 7 



10. Black shale 6 



11. Yellow sandstone 4 



la. Bluerock 4 



13. Blue shale 2 6 



14. Coal •- 1 e 



15. Fire-clay 2 6 



16. Blackshale 7 6 



17. Coal 3 4 



18. Fire-clay 7 8 



19. Blackshale 19 2 



20. White sandrock 4 6 



21. Blackshale : 10 2 



22. Coal 5 8 



