Mar., 1910.] 
Pennsylvanian Limestones. 
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about 4 miles west of the exposure on the Ellet farm. This 
stratum is quarried and burned on a small scale by the Clap- 
saddle Brothers and is used by the Alliance City Disposal Plant 
which uses about 200 bushels of lime per week. 
The quarry is opened beside a small run and nearly at run 
level. This stratum is 5 feet thick and lies at 1117 above sea. 
In places it is said to exceed this measurement and rests upon 
coal 5 to 18 inches in thickness. It is composed of several layers, 
is bluish gray in color and fairly fossiliferous. The upper third 
is somewhat lighter in color than the lower part, and the quarry- 
men state that this limestone produces a purer lime than the stone 
at Middle Branch. 
No other limestone was found and the identity of this stratum 
would be difficult, if not impossible, to determine from what can 
be seen of it and the associated strata. In the absence of other 
data its identity may possibly be established in another way. 
Since the elevation of the Vanport at the Cement Plant is 1180, 
and 10S1 on the Ellett farm, the strata are seen to dip toward 
Alliance 10 feet per mile. If this limestone in question be the 
Vanport then at 4 miles to the west of the Ellett farm it should lie 
at 1121 which is within 4 feet of the elevation actually found. 
If it be the Putnam Hill limestone whose elevation at the Cement 
Plant is 1143 and 1032 at Alliance having therefore, a dip of 11 
feet per mile, at the Carr farm it should lie at 1076 which is 41 
feet lower than the limestone is found to be. This would seem 
to identify it as certainly the Vanport. But the presence of a 
low fold between Alliance and Middle Branch would alter this 
conclusion. Xo evidence, however, of such a condition is known 
to the writer, hence he regards this as an outcrop of the Vanport. 
Another section in the northeastern corner of the county is 
of interest in this connection. About 3 miles northeast of the 
Carr farm and on the diagonal road leading from Limaville to 
Marlboro at a point 2\ miles southwest of Limaville is the shaft 
mine of Mr. Fred Lare. The elevation of the top of the shaft is 
about 1155 feet above sea. 
Mr. Lare gives the following section: 
4. Drift 42 feet. 
3. White sandstone, hard and shaly 3 “ 
2. Shale, dark 15 “ 
1. Coal, bone parting near middle 4 “ 
This 4 foot coal which is said to be a good steam and heating 
coal lies at about 1095 above sea which is at once seen to be below 
the Carr limestone and with no trace of limestone in the shaft. 
The thickness and the parting in the middle strongly suggest the 
coal beneath the Putnam Hill limestone. This shaft, the Carr 
farm, and Howenstein are in line. The Vanport at Howenstein 
lies at 1086, on the Carr farm at 1117 and the two points are 16 
