854 GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 



but it is nowhere opened. Towards New Lexington it disappears, being 

 replaced by a heavy sand-rock. In the high lands in Reading township 

 it is again seen, and has been mined to a limited extent. For several 

 miles south of Buckingham traces of the Norris coal may be seen, but it 

 has not been met with on Lower Sunday Creek, neither in shafts nor in 

 borings. On Snow Fork, in Ward township, Hocking county, it is fre- 

 quently seen. My assistant, Mr. Gilbert, found it in Section 4, forty-five 

 feet above the Nelsonville seam. Col. Charles Whittlesey reports it in 

 a section taken by him on the Middle Fork of Snow Pork. It is there 

 about forty feet above the Nelsonville seam, and from two to three feet 

 thick. It is to be found on the Maxwell land about forty-five feet above 

 the Nelsonville seam. At Bessemer, near the Akron furnace, it is two 

 feet six inches thick, and fifty feet above the bottom of the Nelsonville 

 seam. On the land of J. L. Gill, Esq., on Meeker Run, it is forty-three 

 feet one inch above the same seam. It is only here one foot six inches 

 in thickness. On the coal property of Peter Hayden, Esq., near Hayden- 

 ville, it is about forty-two feet above the Nelsonville coal. It is to be 

 seen at many other points, but it is needless to give them all. All the 

 locations in the Hocking Valley where it has been found sufficiently 

 thick to be worked have been mentioned. 



The Bayley's Run, or Stallsmith seam {Coal No.!) — This seam is found 

 on the Upper Sunday Creek, in Perry county, where it is known as 

 the Stallsmith coal, and on Lower Sunday Creek, Athens county, where 

 it has long been known as the Bayley's Run coal. It is a seam of wide 

 range, and may be found almost everywhere where the hills are high 

 enough to contain it, although it sometimes fails. Its place is approxi- 

 mately from eighty to ninety feet above the horizon of the Nelsonville 

 seam. Generally the interval is greater where sand-rock intervenes than 

 where we find shales, this being due, doubtless, to the greater compres- 

 sion of the shales. This coal, as found in Dover and Trimble townships, 

 is noticed in the report on Athens county, in Vol I. The seam is from 

 four to five feet thick — seldom less than four and one-half feet — with a 

 thin parting about one-third of the distance from the top. As a rule, 

 the quality of the coal in these townships is excellent; but in some 

 places the coal contains too much sulphur to permit its use for the higher 

 metallurgical purposes. The coal is always cementing in its character, 

 and promises to be an excellent coking coal. The small trials already 

 made prove this. I have obtained several samples of this coal from 

 Trimble and Dover townships, which have been analyzed by Professor 

 Wormley. 



