SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT — HOCKING VALLEY, 857 



Other known seam which this coal can represent, and Mr. T. Black, who 

 has charge of the mining of the coal and ore for the Akron furnace, has 

 found no other seam in this general horizon. If this conclusion about 

 the coal is a correct one, the place of the " Bessemer ore" is, unmistaka- 

 bly, helow the Bayley's Run seam. 



On Floodwood Creek, on the land of Hon. J. W. Nelson, the Bayley's 

 Run seam is four feet two inches thick, with a two inch parting. Its 

 place was found by barometer to be between eighty and ninety feet above 

 the Nelsonville seam. On the south branch of Meeker Run, on the land 

 of J. L. Gill, Esq., the same seam is four feet three inches thick, and 

 eighty-nine feet above the Nelsonville coal. Traces of this seam appear 

 at many points at the proper horizon in all the Hocking Valley coal 

 field. At the Bristol Tunnel, in Pike township, Perry county, this coal 

 is seen on the ridge over the tunnel on the land of Mr. Clark. It is here 

 about three feet six inches thick, and from eighty to ninety feet above the 

 Nelsonville seam exposed in the railroad tunnel. The coal is of the 

 melting class, but contains a good deal of sulphur. 



Above the Bayley's Run seam, which is probably Coal No. 7 of the 

 northern series, there are several thin seams which appear to be per- 

 sistent in their several horizons, but there is no space for detailed notice 

 of them. There is, on Lower Sunday Crbek, a thin seam of coal, about 

 forty-five or fifty feet above the Bayley's Run seam, called, sometimes, 

 the " Splint coal." This has, by some, been considered as the true No. 7 

 seam, and the equivalent of the Stallsmith seam or Upper Sunday Creek. 

 I see no reason for changing my original opinion, that the Bayley's Run 

 and the Stallsmith seams are the same. Furthermore, I find on Upper 

 Sunday Creek, traces of the Splint coal seam above the Stallsmith seam, 

 holding the same relation to it in distance that the Splint coal holds to 

 the Bayley's Run seam further south. 



The Pomeroy seam is to be found in the high hills east of Lower Sun- 

 day Creek, but it is thin and of no practical value. Its place is, by ba- 

 rometer, about four hundred and twenty feet above the Nelsonville seam. 



lEON ORES. 



These may be grouped into two divisions — those below the Nelsonville 

 coal, and those above it. 



Lower Ore. — Iron ores are very frequently met with resting upon the 

 Maxville limestone and its equivalent, and at some points directly under 

 the limestone. These ores are generally oxydized on the outcrop. Such 

 ore is seen above the limestone of the Maxville series below Logan, and 

 above the Maxville limestone near the village of Maxville. A drift 



