SUPPLEMENTAL EEPOKT — HOCKING VALLEY. 849 



North of the upper Sunday Creek we find the Nelsonville seam on 

 the waters of the Moxahala; and the seam may be traced to New Lex- 

 ington in one direction, and McLuney Station and thence to Zanesville 

 in another. It is much thinner, and is somewhat changed in character. 

 It is mined at many points on the Cincinnati and Muskingum Valley 

 Railway east of New Lexington, and is the basis of a pretty large traf&c. 

 The coal is more soft and melting than where the seam is thicker ; but 

 many people prefer'such coal. Along the Ohio River, the Pittsburg coal, 

 which is highly melting and adhesive, is generally preferred to the harder 

 and dryer coals. In the very high hills south of Somerset, Perry county, 

 the Nelsonville seam is found. At Joshua Green's coal bank, Reading 

 township, the seam measures five feet in thickness. The coal is rather 

 dry-burning, and is prized for domestic and steam purposes. Patrick 

 Redman and Michael Gainer, in the same township, have also mined the 

 Nelsonville seam. There are, by estimate, 1,000 acres of productive coal 

 land containing this seam, in Reading township. The same seam was 

 noticed on the land of Hon. Lewis Green. About forty feet above, is the 

 Middle, or Norris coal of upper Sunday Creek, which has been mined. 

 Traces of the Bayley's Run, or Stallsmith seam were found thirty five to 

 forty feet higher. Below the Nelsonville seam, the Lower Lexington 

 seam is reported. Thus four distinct coal horizons are found in this 

 ridge. These high grounds are remarkably well adapted to fruit, and 

 large vineyards and peach and other orchards were seen. The ridge is, 

 by barometer, about 320 feet above St. Joseph's Run, on the road to 

 Somerset. 



The Nelsonville seam appears farther east, in Clayton and Harrison 

 townships. On a hill, a mile and a half west of Saltillo, a section was 

 taken, which showed the coal seams as follows : 



FT. IN. 



Coal, Nelsonville Beam, not measured. 



Interval ^^ 



Coal, Lower Lexington seam. 



Interval - ^^ 



Coal, thin. 



Interval, estimated ; 15 



Coal 10 



Interval, estimated 10 



Ore, siderite. 



Flint fossiliferous, the equivalent of the Putnam Hill limestone 2-3 



Clay! 1 6 



Coal ^ ■■ 



On the land of James Watts, a little south-east of Saltillo, a bank is 



opened in what I supposed to be the Nelsonville seam, the coal 



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