560 GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 



as compared with that of a large number of our most popular coals in 

 southern Ohio; and this amounts, practically, to a very considerable 

 saving. 



On the land of Hon. Isaac Welsh the Bellair or Wheeling seam is 

 found in good development, and the one eighty to ninety feet above is 

 reported to be four feet thick. The seam above the latter is found in the 

 neighborhood, and has been mined by Mr. Helpbringer. There is an in- 

 exhaustible supply of coal in this vicinity. 



PULTNEY TOWNSHIP. 



This township is one of the eastern townships of the county. The 

 McMahon Creek divides it into two nearly equal parts. On the land of 

 J. F. Hutchinson, section 12, a geological section was made, which re- 

 vealed the more important strata over the Bellair coal : 



Ft. In. 



1. Cement limestone, thickness not seen. 



2. Coal, reported a little below the limestone. 



3. Not exposed '. 33 



4. Laminated sandstone 2 



5. Black slate, 1 



6. Coal, reported thickness 4 



7. Not exposed 29 



8. Limestone and shales 15 



9. Clay 2 6 



10. Coal 2 



11. Bituminous shale 3 



12. Blue limestone 12 



13. Limestones and shales 5 



14. Clay 1 



15. Nodular limestone 2 



16. Clay shale 5 



17. Coal 1 



18. Clay 1 



19. Coal, varying from 5 10 to 6 10 



(Map XIV., No. 11.) 



There are in the lower seam of coal two thin, slaty partings, thirty- 

 fourand thirty-eight inches from the bottom respectively. The lower 

 three inches of the seam are slaty, and contain fish remains and some 

 imperfectly preserved shells. This coal is mined by Mr. Kidd, and ship- 

 ped by the railroad. The coal possesses the usual characteristics of the 

 Bellair or Wheeling coal. About twenty-eight feet above this coal is a 

 thin seam, measuring two feet in thickness. The seam of coal about 

 eighty feet above the lower or Bellair seam is reported to be four feet 

 thick. It is not mined, the lower coal generally being preferred. In the 



