HOCKING VALLEY. 697 



FT. W. 



Upper bench 2 2 



Middle bench 3 8 



Lower bench 2 2 



Total 8 



Coal of excellent quality. 



At John CoUins's bank, Section 22, York township : 



FT. IN. 



Upper bench 2 7 



Middle bench 3 6 



Lower bench 10 



Total 6 11 



Showing a marked thinning out of the lower bench (and that at the 

 commencement of the deposition this was near the western margin of the 

 marsh), a slightly diminished thickness of the middle bench, and an in- 

 creased thickness of upper bench. 



At the Laurel Hill mine, two and a half miles south-west of Nelson- 

 ville, the coal is six feet thick in three benches. At Lick Run mine it 

 is also six feet thick, of good quality, and presents its ordinary charac- 

 teristics, but terminates abruptly at the west, the horizon of the coal 

 being occupied by a massive sandstone. On Section 8, Starr township, 

 it is reported to be six feet thick. About eight miles south-west of Nelson- 

 ville, near the south line of Starr township, five feet of the coal is exposed 

 on the bank of a small stream. About four feet of this is good coal, with 

 more sulphur than usual, and the upper bench quite shaly. 



At the mouth of Meeker's Run, Section 10, York township, the section 

 of the coal is — 



IT. IN. 



Shale 6 



Coal 1 6 



Shale 3to8 



Coal 3 



Shale 3to4 



Coal 1 10 



There is a good deal of controversy as to the identity of the coal 

 mined at Carbondale, in the north-west corner of Waterloo township, but 

 following down the valley from an outcrop near the south line of Starr, 

 toward the coal road leading to Carbondale, the Great Vein coal is seen 

 to pass below the surface, and another coal, fifty feet higher up, with a 

 sand-rock a little above it, approaches the bottom of the valley. This 

 sand-rock, and rude openings into the coal below, can be traced continu- 

 ously around the hill to the east, and up the Coal Railroad to Carbondale, 



