808 GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 



part of Springfield, it consists of two feet of cannel and two feet of bitu- 

 minous coal. At Heindel's bank, section 13, the lower bench is twenty- 

 six to thirty inches, bituminous, the upper from twelve to eighteen 

 inches, cannel. Jacob Wilderson's coal is o.nly twa feet thick, but is 

 partially cut out by sand-rock. 



' In tl^e north-west corner of Beaver township two wells have recently 

 i)een bored \(y a considerable depth for the Block Coal. The first is on 

 ^he farm of Samuel Barr, and the second on that of Noah Messerly, some 

 forty rods distant. 

 The register of these borings is as follaws : 



FT IK 



1. Snrface deposit . 32 



2. Sand-rook 34 6 



3. Black shale ■ 5 



4. Cannel coal (No. 4) 4 6 



5.' Black shale — 1 6 



6. Fire-clay M 



7. Fire-clay rock 17 



8. Gray shale, with thin coal 8 6 



9. Gray shelly rock 1 4 



10. Grayshale! 17 



11. Dark bine shale, with thin coal 3 



12. "Very hard rook" 1 6 



13. Brown shale 7 



14. Fire-clay 4 6 



15. Grayshale 8 



16. Light sand-rook . . 9 6 



17. Grayshale 5 



18. Blackshale 1 



19. Flintyrock 1 8 



20. Coal No. 1 1 6 



21. Sand-rock 3 



22. Bottom rock (Waverly), 



ST. IK. 



1. Surface deposits .». . 30 



2. Sand-rock 48 



3. Blackshale 8 



4. Cannel Coal (No. 4) 5 



5. Blackshale 1 



6. Coal, very snlphuions .. 3 



7. Dark gray shale 8 



8. Coal No. 3o 2 



9. Blackshale 5 



10. Sand-rock 10 



11. Gray shaly rook ,...., 15 



