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always found resting upon our Cuyahoga shales) to leave room for any 

 hope of such a desirable discovery. 



We have many newspaper reports of the finding of coal far below this 

 horizon, as in the deep well drilled in Mansfield, where the surface rock 

 is three hundred feet or more below the lowest coal. So in this county 

 in a well sunk for oil near Apple Creek, where the ravines cut through 

 the coal measures, a coal seven feet thick was reported as disclosed seventy 

 feet from the surface. A reliable person, who lived in the place at the 

 time the well was sunk, informed me that he burned the coal, and that 

 there was no possible doubt as to its character and excellent quality. 



The investigation was followed up until the fact was learned that the 

 coal was obtained in driving the pipe, which was carried down to a depth 

 of one hundred and twelve feet, and abandoned without striking rock. 

 It was simply the occurrence, by no means unusual, of detached frag- 

 ments of coal buried in the Drift, and of no significance with reference 

 to the true horizon of any of the coals. 



Coal No. 7 I have found only in the top of the hill at Mt. Eaton with- 

 out cover, where it was formerly mined to a small extent by drifting, and 

 most of it apparently taken out. The hills in other parts of the county 

 are not high enough to catch it. 



Coal No. 6 is mined one-half mile east of Mt. Eaton, at George Mat- 

 thews's bank, where it is two feet three inches thick, roof of black shale 

 one to two feet thick, containing many shells and capped with sandy 

 shale. The coal is of the ordinary type of No. 6, black, lustrous and 

 caking, but containing considerable sulphur. It is from eighteen to 

 twenty feet below No. 7, and its outcrop can be seen on all sides of this 

 hill, and at a few other elevaied points in the neighborhood. 



It is also present in the hills north of Fredericksburgh, on the north line 

 of the county. The following section, taken here, illustrates the dimin- 

 ished intervals between the coals mentioned above : 



FT. IS. 



Coarse brown sandstone, MahoniDg 25 



Black shale with, shells 5 



Coal No. 6 3 6 



Fire-clay 3 



Black-shale 27 



Gray limestone 2 



Coal 2 



Fire-clay 2 



Blackshale 18 



Blue limestone 2 



Coal 2 



Fireclay 3 



Ferruginous shale.... 6 



