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GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 



Specific gravity 



Water 



Ash 



VolatiJe combustible matter 

 Fixed carbon 



Total 



Sulplinr 



No. 1. 



1.277 



3.f-0 



4.60 



38.80 



52.t0 



100 00 



3.59 



No. 2. 



1.350 



3.80 



6.30 



37 00 



52.90 



100.00 

 4.89 



The same seam of coal has been opened and mined on the hill above 

 the Sands bank, the latter in the Nelsonville seam. This is in Section 

 9, Monroe township. It is here four feet two inches thick, and has over 

 it a roof of clay shale. The seam here is about fifty feet above the great 

 seam. It may be traced from this point to the north. On the Latta 

 farm it is seen on the hill-side above the great seam. North of this it is 

 generally quite thin, but it may be traced all along the stream to a point 

 east of Oakfield. From the last mentioned point it is, perhaps, a mile 

 and a quarter over the ridge to the village of Moxahala, where the seam 

 appears again as the Fowler or Black coal, it having been mined here by 

 Mr. Thomas Black. It is here about five feet thick, and is a dry burning 

 coal of great excellence, and has proved to be a Very popular coal for 

 domestic use. It makes a very large bright flame, and has been used in 

 the gas-works at Circleville. It will be tried in the Moxahala furnace. 

 It may contain too much sulphur for a good furnace coal, but further ex- 

 plorations may find it in requisite purity. 



There has been much discussion relative to the true place of this coal 

 in the series of coal seams. Professor Ballantine, assisted by Hon. 

 Alvah Jones, of Koseville, traced, in 1869, the Nelsonville seam from 

 Rose ville, and found it to be below the Fowler coal. Mr. Black regarded the 

 seam as the Norris seam. The author of the profile published in the 

 Report of the Inspector of Mines makes it the northern continuation of 

 the Bayley's Run seam of lower Sunday' Creek, there eighty feet, more or 

 less, above the Nelsonville seam. Mr. M. C. Read, who visited this field 

 last fall, is reported to regard it as the upper portion or bench of the 

 Nelsonville seam, while the lower part of the same seam is to be found in 

 the bottom of a shaft fifty-two feet below ; in other words, the Nelson- 

 ville seam (Coal No. 6) was here split into two parts, with fifty-two feet 

 of sandstone, etc., between them. The reported proof that the Fowier 

 coal is certainly a part of the great seam is derived from the supposed 

 fact that on a branch of Sunday Creek the Gveat or Nelsonville »eam ia 



