HOCKING VALLEY. 



671 



The following table of the analyses of the coals from this neighbor- 

 hood will sufficiently indicate their character : 



No. 1, Benjamin Saunders's bank. 

 No. 2, average 2 samples, A. Saunders. 

 No. 3, average 12 samples, Eicbter's bank. 

 No. 5, average 5 samples, Sands's bank. 

 No. 6, average of all the above. 



Professor Andrews says, in regard to these analyses : " The samples 

 analyzed were all selected by myself, and my sole aim was to secure such 

 samples as most fairly represented the seam. In some cases, each foot of 

 coal in the vertical range is represented by a sample." 



If my conclusions are correct as to the true relations of the coals about 

 Moxahala, a local section there would differ from the general one given 

 above, in this respect : the Great Vein (lower part) would be reduced to 

 four feet seven inches ; the sandy shales above increased to some fifty 

 feet, and patches of coal inserted above and at the base of the Mahoning 

 sandstone. 



THE NOEKIS COAL. 



At an average elevation of about forty-five feet above the Great Vein, 

 is a coal which, in all its characteristics, bears a great resemblance to 

 Coal No. G in other parts of the State. It is here regarded as No. 6a. 

 Going south from New Lexington, it makes its first appearance near 

 Moxahala, above the Mahoning sandstone, and has been mined for many 

 years near the little village of Oakfield. It extends southward through 

 this field, but in places, as in the Akron Iron Company property, seems 

 to be cut out, and its horizon is occupied by massive sandstone ; and again, 

 in other places, it passes into a bituminous shale or disappears alto- 

 gether; Its best exposure is at the old Norris bank, near Millertown^ 

 which has given it its name. The following is a section of the coal, in- 

 cluding strata : 



