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one of which is supposed to be No. 6, and the other the next bed above. 

 In a run near the road in this vicinity, an imperfect section was obtained, 

 showing the blue limestone at bottom three feet thick, and thirty feet 

 above it the bottom of a bed of massive sandstone full fifty feet thick, 

 with feigns of coal six feet below it, with shale between the coal and sand- 

 stone. Near the summit, about seventy feet above the top of the sand- 

 stone, is the outcrop of the uppermost bed. On the next road to the south 

 of this, a mile and a half west from Roscoe, the upper part of the great- 

 sandstone bed below coal No. 6, forms the pavement of the road, and be- 

 neath is a cave formed by the overhanging rock and extending entirely 

 across under the road. The bottom of the sandstone is fifty- five feet below 

 the road, and down the run fifteen feet lower is a fine exposure of the 

 gray limestone two or three feet thick, with an inferior kind of canneL 

 coal under it. A blue limestone crops out still further down the run, 

 only about twenty feet under the gray limestone — shales and slaty sand- 

 stones occupying the intermediate space. The hills in this part of the 

 township are quite high enough to catch No. 6 coal, and also the next 

 bed in many localities. But No. 6 is the only bed known in the town- 

 ship as of much importance. It is opened at a number of places to the 

 south of Roscoe, as at Dougherty's, Oder's, Jacob Housers, etc. The bed 

 is from three to four feet thick, the coal is in good repute, and that from 

 Oder's bank is hauled to Moscow, in Virginia township, for blacksmiths' 

 use. But the most important mines in the township are in the south- 

 east part, near the line of Virginia, especially those worked on adjoining- 

 tracts, belonging respectively to the Coalport Coal Company, and the 

 Summit Coal Company, both under the management of Mr. Jos. Alexan- 

 der. The locality is a mile and a half from the canal, with which it is- 

 connected by a horse track railroad. The coal bed is three feet ten inches 

 thick, with a seam of shale one to two inches thick, fifteen inches above 

 the floor. The mines have been in operation fifteen years. They now 

 employ about twenty men, and the coal, which is of good quality and in 

 good demand, finds a maiket in the central part of the State, being trans- 

 portfd west by the canal. The roof of the bed is blue shale, and in the 

 shale beds above ;ind below the coal, kidney ore is found, which Mr. Alex- 

 ander supposes will prove sufficiently abundant to work. He finds th& 

 dip to be southeast sixteen and one-half feet in a mile. 



Pi'osser's coal mine is three miles south from Coshocton, and half a 

 mile west from the canal. The bed is close upon four feet thick ; contains 

 no V isible sulphur but what can be easily sorted out. The upper part isi 

 harder coal than the lower, and separated from it by a small seam of fire- 

 ch y, eighteen inches above the floor. It has been worked for three years. 



