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three feet in thickness, and has much less value than in Tuscarawas 

 county, where it is sometimes four feet thick, and of superior quality. 



West of Navarre, Coal No. 5 has been opened on Jacob Shetler's land, and 

 on that of John Ricksecker, and is about three feet thick ; a soft, coking 

 coal of fair quality. In Pike township this coal is found on both sides of 

 the Nimishillen, somewhat back from the stream, here, as at Mineral 

 Point, holding its normal position about midway between Coals Nos. 4 and 

 6. It is in this region known as the "Thirty-inch seam," and the coal 

 which it furnishes is generally good. Toward the south this seam at- 

 tains its best development at Mineral Point, in the adjacent county. 

 This is the coal mined on the Trumbull Company's property above Mag- 

 nolia. 



Typical exposures of Coal No. 5 may be seen at the mine of David 

 Miller, in section 12, Canton township, three miles east of Canton, and 

 in several other openings made on this seam south of this point. The 

 coal in Miller's mine is twenty-eight to thirty inches thick, overlain by 

 gray shale, with its characteristic deposit of nodular iron ore. The coal 

 is bright and good, more free from sulphur than that of the seam below, 

 more open-burning than the next higher seam (No. 6), which is so ex- 

 tensively mined in Osnaburg township. In that part of the county 

 lying south and east of Canton township, the higher hills reach up to 

 the Barren Coal Measures, and the blackband ore, which lies over Coal 

 No. 7, occurs in some of the hill-tops of Osnaburg and Paris Coal No. 6, 

 to be described further on, is here the principal seam worked. This gen- 

 erally lies conveniently above drainage in the valleys of Osnaburg and 

 Paris, while in the lower part of these valleys, which- are traversed by 

 streams draining into the Sandy, Coal No. 6 is exposed in numerous local- 

 ities as far up the Sandy as Minerva, and it is opened on many farms for 

 local use. In the very bottoms of these valleys, in a few places. Coal 

 No. 4, with its overlying Putnam Hill limestone, is reached, but is 

 scarcely worked, except along the Sandy. A typical section of all the 

 strata exposed in this part of the county and the corner of Carroll is 

 given below : 



FT. 



1. Earth, Trith little or no drift - 5 to 10 



3. Sandstone 8 to 10 



3. Shale 20 to 25 



4. Blackband iron ore (local) 3 to 8 



5. CoalNo.7 2i 



6. Fire-clay 2 



7. Sandstone and shale 80 to 110 



H. Coal No. 6 4 to 6 



9. Fire-clay 3 to 5 



