168 GEOLOGY OE OHIO. 



one only being of workable thickness. This is worked at Bahney's 

 mine, and thence through on the east side of the Tuscarawas Valley to 

 the south line of the county, at the mines of Messrs. Heer, Gribel, Shaffer, 

 Shetler, and others, the coal varying in thickness from two to five feet. 



West of the Tuscarawas, in Sugar Creek township, all the highlands 

 carry the limestone coals, and in some places the higher seams, Nos. 6 

 and 6. At Jacob Shetler's mine, two and a half miles west of Rochester, 

 we have the following section : 



FT. 



1. Slope (covered) .' 2o 



2. Coarse sanclrock 'M 



3. Dark gray shale 10 



4. Coal No. 6 U 



5. Fire-clay 3 



6. Shale 56 



7. Coal No. 5 3 



g. Fire-clay 4 



9. Shale - 25 



10. Limestone and iron ore 3 



11. Coal No. 4 2i 



12. Fire-clay 3 



13. Shale and sandstone .50 



14. Coal No. 3 (outcrop). 



At .Jacob Ricksecker's, half a mile south of Shetler's, Coal No. 5 is worked. 

 It is three feet thick, rather soft, but looks well. The upper limestone 

 and its coal are seen in the ravine near by. At Fisher's bank, near 

 Sugar Creek Station, Coal No. 3 has been quite extensiveh' mined. It is 

 about three feet in thickness, very black and bright, rather open-burning 

 in ci]aracter, and contains but little sulphur; on the whole, a verj^ excel- 

 lent coal. Fifty feet above is the gray limestone, and on the charity- 

 school lot adjoining. Coal No. 4 lies under it, about five feet in thickness, 

 showing very well. On the farm of the Widow Wines, Coal No. 3 crops 

 out at the house, No. 4 is visible in the ravine above, and No. 6 occurs 

 about one liundred feet higher up the hill. 



The valley of Sugar Creek, near Sugar Creek Station, seems to promise 

 well for the lower coal (No. 1). Its place would be reached by borings of 

 from seventy-five to one hundred feet in the valley. No trial has been 

 made to determine whether it is below, but the tost would be so easj-, and 

 the reward of success so great, that the inducements to make the explora- 

 tions seem ample. 



In the northern part of the county coal seams Nos. 3 and 4 are both 

 exposed. ]:!'-tween Green^burg and Clreentown they are seen in the same 

 hill, each overlain by limestone, and, as usual, each limestone associated 

 with more or less iron ore. On the east side of the valley Coal No. 4 has 



