ALLEN COUNTY. 401 



Anderson's farms, the following section may be taken from the bed of 

 the river : 



No. 1. Soft, porous, gray, and chalky in spots. In every respect 

 similar to No. 1 of the section taken from Anderson's 



quarry, on section 22, Pitt, Wyandot county 8 inches. 



" 2. Hard, massive, or thin-bedded ; dark drab ; flinty ; lamina- 

 tions irregular, sometimes coalescent. This is the equiva- 

 lent of No. 2 of Anderson's, in Pitt, Wyandot county. 

 Irregular surface exposure, showing a perpendicular sec- , 

 tion of perhaps 6 " 



In Spencer township the Waterlime appears. in the bed of Jennings's 

 Creek, in section 14, where it is quarried for quicklime by C. C. Marshall. 

 The beds are two to four inches thick. 



The Drift. — The character and the materials of the Drift in Allen 

 eounty are the same as already described in pther counties in north- 

 western Ohio. The peculiar features of this deposit, which may be seen 

 in the south-eastern corner of the county, are fully described in a previ- 

 ous chapter. There is a more frequent occurrence of stratification and 

 assortment of the Drift in the eastern half of the county, where the 

 streams all flow toward the west or south-west, than in the western half. 

 It seems also to be arranged in a series of broad north-east and south- 

 west ridges, or swells, the intervening valleys being occupied by the 

 streams, which necessarily conform to the direction of the main valleys. 

 The average thickness of the Drift in the county can not be stated, but 

 it is probably not over seventy-five feet. It seems thicker in the eastern 

 than in the western half of the county. At Lima gravel beds are seen 

 in the Drift, and in some instances near there the gravel rises to within 

 three or four feet of the surface. It shows the usual tortuous, glacial 

 stratification, and is embraced within the St. Mary's Ridge. It is util- 

 ized by Mr. Alexander Miller and Dr. E. Ashton for road-making, the 

 finer parts being used for mortar. 



MATEBIAL KESOURCEB. 



Besides the strong and deep soil with which the county is every where 

 covered, and in which consists its chief source of material wealth, the 

 county has little to depend on in the products of its geological forma- 

 tions. Indeed, the most of the county is poorly supplied with stone for 

 common foundations. The Niagara, in the south-eastern part of Auglaize 

 township, is of the Guelph, or upper portion of that great member of the 

 Silurian age, and is an inferior stone for building. For quicklime it is 

 well adapted. It affords a strong, white lime, which acts quick, and is 

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