550 GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 



Following the line of the railroad east of Barnesville, we find in a 

 railroad cut on the land of Wm. Stanton, section 10, a thin seam of coal 

 only two inches thick, which was believed to be the same as the highest 

 coal found at Barnesville, about forty feet above the tunnel seam. The 

 section in this cut is as follows : 



Pt. In. 



1. Sandrock 15 



2. Clay 4 



3. Coal 2 



4. Brown clay shale 1 



5. Limestone, irregular 1 6 



6. Dark-brown shale 5 



Level of railroad track. 



About a mile further east, in a railroad cut on the farm of the late 

 Ezekiel Bundy, Esq., a seam of coal one foot thick is seen, which was 

 believed to be the same as the Barnesville tunnel seam. The section in 

 the cut is as follows : 



It. In. 



1. Shaly sandstone 8 



2. Black slate 4 



3. Coal 1 



4. Clay shale 3 



Level of railroad track. 



On the same farm an old excavation for coal was visited. Coal was 

 once obtained here by the late Mr. Bundy for family use. This seam is 

 twenty-seven feet below the seam in the railroad cut. 



SOMEETON TOWNSHIP. 



Most of this township lies upon the high ground which constitutes the 

 water-shed between the Ohio River on the east and Wills Creek waters 

 on the west. The soil is of fair quality, but the heaviest beds of lime- 

 stone lie in the valley of Captina Creek, too low, at least, to have much 

 fertilizing influence upon the soil of the hill-sides. At Temperanceville, 

 in the extreme western part of the township, Beaver Creek has eroded 

 its valley below the lower Barnesville, or Wheeling, seam of coal, and 

 the seam is mined in that neighborhood. The following is a geological 

 section in the vicinity of the village of Somerton : 



Ft. In. 



1. Blossom of coal. 



2. Not seen (estimated) 20 



3. Blossom of coal. 



4. Not seen 42 



5. Blossom of coal. 



6. Not seen 23 



