582 GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 



The following is a section near Joseph Preese's mine, north of West 

 Bedford, Bedford township : 



FT. IN. 



Soil and drift. 

 Buff limestone. 



Sandstone aad shale partly covered 100 



Coal outcrop 



Shale 30 



Gray limestone - 5 



Coal^fo.'l 2 4 



Shaly sandstone - 30 



Coal, J. Freese's (No 3a?) ■. 3 11 



Blue calcareous shale - 20 



Coal outcrop (No. 3) 



Space partlj covered, mostly sandstone 80 



Coal No. 1 (?) 



Freese's coal is a compound seam, consisting of, 



BUuniinous coal 18 inches. 



CanTiel coal.l 10 •' 



Fire clay 3 to 4 inches. 



Bituminous coal 15 inches. 



Black shale 



At one hundred feet elevation the gray limestone appears in the run 

 overlying a coal seam twenty-eight inches thick, not opened, and at one 

 hundred and tnirty feet is the outcrop of another coal bed of cannel 

 character, the thickness not known. Over this coal is a heavy bed of 

 massive sandstone, and above this to the top of the hill, about one hun- 

 dred feet m )re, no more exposures are seen. But in the forks of the road 

 near by, and Fome twenty to thirty feet higher elevation than the upper- 

 most coal bi-d in the section, is an outcrop of hard, compact limestone, 

 abounding in fossil shells, the stratum probably not over two feet thick. 

 It is remukable, at this place, what a change the coals Nos. 3 and 4 have 

 undergone from their much larger dimensions in Jefferson, only about 

 three miles distant. No. 3a also assumes here a workable character, not 

 observed any where else in the county. 



No other coal openings are seen between this place and the village of 

 West Bedford. The village stands some fifty feet above the gray lime- 

 stone, which is seen a little to the north; and the range of the strata 

 is from the summit d iwn into the bottoms about two hundred and forty 

 feet. About forty feet lower than the gray limestone is a large outcrop 

 of coal in the road, which is probably No. 3a, the blue limestone being 

 met thirty feet lower in a large exposure of massive blocks. At the low- 

 est point in the road, about one-half mile east from West Bedford, where 

 the road forks, one branch going to Warsaw and the other to Roscoe, is 



