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WESTFIELD TOWNSHIP. 



Westfield is the middle township in the southern tier. The northern 

 part is clayey, but the southern part is sandy. Over three hundred acres 

 are covered with peat. There is a marl marsh of twenty acres, situated 

 a mile and a half south of Leroy post-office. The marl is like a whitish 

 clay with minute shells, and when burnt, the lime produced is a shade 

 between the white and gray lime in the markets, but the strength is not 

 nearly equal to that of ordinary lime. The houses of the town were 

 formerly plastered with this marl lime. 



A mastodon or elephant skeleton was found in this township in the 

 year 1832. Most of the bones were taken to Wooster at the time of their 

 discovery. 



WADSWOETH TOWNSHIP. 



The Coal Measures cover three-fourths of Wadsworth township, which 

 is the extreme south-easterly one in Medina county. By careful esti- 

 mate it is thought that four hundred and fifty acres of workable coal ex- 

 ist in this township. Drilling has been done very generally over the 

 coal territory, and basins of excellent coal found and mapped, but insuf- 

 ficient railroad facilities delay the general development of it. Three 

 mines are now in full operation, the coal mined being of good quality, 

 such as sells in Cleveland on an equality with the Willow Bank coal. 



The Wadsworth Coal Company began shipping coal iu December, 1869. 

 At the time of my visit (September, 1871) the daily production of this 

 mine was one hundred and fifty tons, the estimated product for the year 

 being fully forty thousand tons. Eighty miners are employed. The 

 mine is in the south-east corner of the county. The coal is shipped by 

 the Silver Creek Branch of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad. 



The Diamond Coal Works of Humphrey, Coleman & Co. are situated two 

 miles south-east of the village of Wadsworth, the railroad running close 

 to the mine, which was first opened in December, 1869. At the time of 

 my survey daily shipments of seventy-five tons were being made. The 

 yield of this mine in 1871 was stated to be thirteen thousand tons. Thirty 

 miners were employed by this company. 



The Myers Coal Bank is in the north-western part of the township, three 

 miles from the other mines. It has some peculiar features, but at the 

 time of my visit it was filled with water, which the engines made slow 

 progress in removing. A conglomerate of mixed pebbles, etc., imme- 

 diately overlies the coal in this bank, but is somewhat broken and tilted 

 up, showing great crevices. The coal also is broken up and shows many- 

 mud cracks ; but is of good quality. It does not fall to dust by weather- 

 ing, or run together when burning in a grate. The market for this coal 



