682 GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 



on Map XIII., No. 14. In this section are three seams of co^l above the 

 cement limestone — one the Jacob Weekly seam, about eighty feet above, 

 another only seen in its blossom or stain, ninety-six feet higher, and a 

 third, reported to be three feet thick, sixty-four feet above the second. 

 The lower seam is mined successfully for the supply of several neighbor- 

 ing villages and mills. The upper seam is probably thick enough to be 

 worked. 



At Cameron the cement limestone dip3 below Sunfish Creek, and does 

 not I think, reappear at any point down the stream. 



On the lands of Mr. Moberly and Leonard Twinem the same shales 

 found north of Woodsfield are seen, with similar promise of iron ore. 

 The nodules appear to be of larger average size. The ore is excellent. 



SUNBTJRY TOWNSHIP. 



This township is situated on the northern border of the county. It 

 lies upon the high ridge dividing the waters of Captina Creek, in Bel- 

 mont county, on the north, and tho^e of Sunfish Creek on the south. 

 The principal drainage, however, is toward the latter stream. While 

 there is much smooth and comparatively level land along the summit of 

 the broad ridge, the southern slope is somewhat roughened by the tribu- 

 taries to Sunfish, which in many places have scored for themselves deep 

 and rocky channels. In the geology of the township little of economic 

 importance and value could be found. The chief seams of coal of Bel- 

 mont county are far beneath the surface. In Wayne township, Belmont 

 county, which lies directly north of Sunbury, the upper Barnesville, or 

 Cumberland, seam is near the bed of Captina Creek. If the Evans coal, 

 on Sunfish, north of Woodsfield, is the same seam, it is evident that it 

 must be far below the general surface in Sunbury. In Washington town- 

 ship, Belmont, in section 27, on Crab-Apple Fork, are three seams of coal, 

 which come in above the one last mentioned. They are respectively 

 about ninety, one hundred and thirty, and one hundred and seventy-five 

 feet above the upper Barnesville seam, the seams being three feet seven 

 inches, two feet, and five feet (reported) thick. These are also below the 

 surface of the Sunbury Ridge. 



Near Beallsville is a thin seam of coal, perhaps one hundred and twenty 

 feet below the level of the village, which is sometimes stripped for local 

 use. As we descend a valley to the south we find, about one hundred and 

 twenty feet below this coal, under a heavy sandrock, a streak of black 

 bituminous shale, which doubtless represents a coal horizon, although at 

 this point no coal was found. About forty feet lower was an apparent 

 stain of coal. It is possible that these traces may be the impoverished 



