WAYNE COUNTY^ 535 



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Shell, iron ore I q 



Black shale (of coal No, 1) 20 



Waverly, capped with coarse sand rock 145 o 



No. 6 is here of good quality, and has been mined for many years. It 

 is about three and one-half feet thick, with roof of black shale contain- 

 ing a profusion of shells. 



The interval between this coal and the gray limestone bttlosv, is here 

 by barometer, thirty feet, five feet greater than at Mt. Eaton, and is filled 

 mainly with black shale. The limestone is two and one-half fe t and 

 can be traced eastward to Mt. Eaton, reaching a thickness of four and 

 five feet, and furnishing a good quick-lime. The coal below ranges in 

 thickness from two to three feet, and is reported in places four feet. It 

 is fairly good, containing a rather large amount of ash and often consid- 

 erable sulphur. It will be mined for local domestic use, and for burning 

 the limestone above it. On Charles Brown's land, about one mile west 

 of Mt. Eaton, it is a fair cannel coal of which about eighteen inches is 

 exposed at the outcrop. 



Near the east line of Salt Creek township, Coal No. 8a is locally devel- 

 oped, and at the Adam Emig's bank reaches a maximum thickness of 

 nearly five feet. It is a dry coal, semi-cannel of fair quality, and is 

 located a few feet only above the limestone. It is apparently wanting 

 over the greater part of this territory. 



Coal No. 3 is somewhat persistent but varies greatly in thickness and 

 character. Near the center of the north part of Salt Creek township a 

 ■drift has been made into a hill where the coal, at its outcrop, was six feet 

 in thickness, but in a distance of some fifty yards, was reduced to a knife 

 ■edge according to the testimony of citizens of the vicinity. At Clark's 

 bank, near Fredericksburgh, it is two feet thick. In the south part of 

 Pranklin township, an opening has been made in this coal which is of 

 fair quality, and three feet four inches thick, the limestone above having 

 & thickness of five feet. 



On Daniel Rehm's land, section eight. Salt Creek township, is the best 

 exposure of this coal I have seen in the county. The following is a sec- 

 tion at that place : 



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Limestone 4 to 6 



Ccal 1 8i 



Shale 4 



Coal , 3 5 



Shale 1 



Coal 8 



Whole thickness of coal 5 9J 



