COSHOCTON COUNTY, 679 



reported in the south-east corner, and, also, about two miles east from 

 Keene Center, on the land of A. Boyd. These two are supposed to be in 

 Coal Bed No. 6. Keene Center, though on very high ground, does not, 

 apparently, quite reach up to the plane of Coal No. 6 ; and no openiugs 

 are made in the lower beds. To the north of the town, the strata ae 

 well exposed by the side of the road, from the top of the hill down into 

 the valley of Mill Creek, presenting the following section : Near the 

 top, at the town, slaty sandstone ; shales, mostly oiiv'vcolored, forty feet ; 

 limestone (gray?), coal-smut, and fire-clay, underlaid by olive shales, sixty 

 feet; several layers of kidney iron-ore, ten feet above the bottom of the 

 shales; coal outcrop under the shales; five feet up.der this t^ top of 

 great bed of chert, associated with blue limestone, and coal outcrop be- 

 neath. A large bed of massive sandstone, supposed to be that at ihe 

 base of the Coal Measures, lies not far below the blue limestone, its upper 

 layers about twenty feet below the top of the chert and bjue iinlestone 

 This group of about 150 feet, aiFords little promise of any workabli- led 

 of coal; and some portions of it occupy the greater part of the town>hip 



White Eyes. — The only coal openings visited in this township, are th se 

 in the north-west corner, noticed with the coal beds of Mill Cre»^k. The 

 developments there have had the effect of discouraging fither < nterprises 

 of the kind, especially as the demand for coal is so limited In the 

 north-east part of the township, along the road from Chili toward Bakers 

 ville, the lands lie near the plane of the two limestone beds, with n^' 

 promise of workable coal ; and none is reported by the farmers, in an 

 swer to our inquiries. 



Adams. — Throughout the north part of Adams, the coal bed mn«t 

 worked is No. 4, under the gray limestone. It is a bed <if infer nr 

 character, both as regards the amount and quality of t)ie & al 

 it affords. It is commonly known as the "double bed" IV'im a 

 seam of fire-clay, about a foot thick, in the middle of the bi d It has 

 been worked half a mile west from Bakersville, where the whole lied 

 was four feet thick, the upper part mixed with cannel coal. About 

 twenty feet above the gray limestone, which covers the coal bed, is a l^eii 

 of black limestone, of slaty structure, perhaps two feet thick. It cont.'uns 

 fossil shells, but in poor condition. This bed corresponds, in position 

 with the "black marble" found in the western part of the couniy. 

 Near the western side of the township, the double coal bed is worksd on 

 the farms of Powell, of Fillibaum, and of others in the neighborhood. 

 and further east on Zinkon's. At this place, the next upper bed (No. (!) 

 is also opened ninety to one hundred feet .higher up, and too close to the 

 top ol the hill to be worked to advantage. It is a Utile over three feet 



