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stances. ‘The seam is identified by Newberry at all of the points, named 
as Coal No. 3a of his scale. The cannel seam may be the next one 
found in this immediate vicinity above the Upper Mercer coal, but it is 
certainly not the next in the series. ‘This is the most prolific portion of 
the Lower Coal Measures, and we cannot find in any part of it an inter- 
val of 85’, nor of even half that distance from any coal seam to the next 
one, that is due above it. The measurement already given shows ap-— 
proximately the place of the Canfield cannel in the series. It belongs to 
the horizon of the Ferriferous limestone. Other facts will presently be 
brought forward establishing this conclusion, but it is to be distinctly 
noted that it is not No. 4 of the Stark county series. That coal seam 
belongs to the horizon of the Putnam Hill limestone, which lies from. 
30’ to 50’ below the cannel coal. 
The cannel seam can be traced without difficulty into section 30, in 
the southwestern corner of the town. It has there been mined for local 
supply for a number of years on the farm of John Ewing, but it is no 
longer cannel. It consists here of two feet of bituminous coal, overlain 
with six inches of cannel. 
Two coal seams are found at this horizon, on the Ewing farm, a 
peculiarity which greatly aids in tracing and identifying the horizon to 
the southward. Below the cannel and separated from it by a bed of 
fire-clay, a lower seam appears. ‘The interval at Ewing’s is 8’. The 
lower seam is reported to be between 2’ and 3! thick. Fragments of 
blue fossiliferous limestone are seen where the earth has been moved to 
reach the cannel, but the exact relation of the limestone to the coals 
could not be determined here. Only the upper coal is worked at this 
point, and this in a small and irregular way. 
The White limestone of Nicholas Goodman’s hill, Green township, 
is but a mile from the Kwing coal, and the section already obtained was 
extended by measuring the interval between these two well-known hori- 
zons. ‘The level gave 135’ for this interval, but as the measurement was 
made in the direction of the dip, it will be necessary to add 15’ to 20’ 
on this account. The White limestone is thus seen to be 150 feet above 
the Ferriferous horizon, 270’ above the Lower Mercer limestone, and 
approximately 400 feet above the Block coal. 
The limestone belongs unmistakably to the Freeport group, as 
Newberry has shown. It is a buff-colored, earthy, nodular, brecciated 
non-fossiliferous limestone, passing into an impure and worthless iron- 
