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certain that basins do not exist in which it may yet be found of workable 

 thickness. The abrasion of coal shales in some of the outcrops, the rip- 

 ple-marked sandstones, and plain channels of erosion formed after the dep- 

 osition of the coal, are not favorable indications. The cut in the rail- 

 road, north of Marshallville, in the sandstone above Coal No. 1, is a very 

 interesting example of erosion. On the same horizon the cut exposes, 

 in succession, the following alternation of shale and sandstone : Sand- 

 stone, 161 feet, shale, 493 feet ; sandstone, 485 feet, shale, 342 feet ; sand- 

 stone, 195 feet, shale, 285 feet ; sandstone, 480 feet, shale, 487 feet ; the 

 shale occupying excavated channels bearing north-west and south-east in 

 the sandstone. The following is a section of part of this cut : 



A A, sandstone. B B, shale, with nodules of iron ore near top, and angular deb.is of 

 sandstone near bottom of cnt, on the sandstone slope. The railroad track is at the bottom 

 ot the section, the cnt not being deep ennugh to disclose the sandstone below the shale. 



Near Fairview Station, east of Orrville, Coal No. 1 has an unusual 

 thickness, and is a typical block coal, equal to the best in the Mahoning 

 Valley. The following is a section of the coal and overlying rocks at 

 J. J. Burton's shaft : 



FT. IS. 



Gravel 13 



Black shale 40 



Fine-grained sandstone 10 



Black shale 3 to 4 



Coal 5 to 7 



The coal is in one bench, a dry, open-burning block coal of great excel- 

 lence. The property embraces one hundred and sixy acres in fee, and three 

 hundred and twenty acres of leased land. Before the depression in coal 

 the mine was producing one hundred and twenty tons per day, which 

 commanded three dollars per ton, delivered on the cars at the mine. 

 This production could be largely increased, but it is not probable that 

 the price of the coal will soon reach the old figures. 



At Frank Baker's slope, north of Fairview, the coal varies from three 

 feet to four feet two inches, and is of equally good quality, but the terri- 

 tory containing it, in this direction, is apparently small, and the known 

 coal was, at the time of my visit, nearly exhausted. 



About half a mile north of Fairview is another opening in this seam, 

 where it is four feet thick in one bench — an excellent dry-burning coal, 



