176 GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 
mines have seen their best days, and, taken as a whole, the field is 
verging toward exhaustion. 
In Youngstown township we find the Block coal again, agreeing in ~ 
all respects with the Hubbard coals. The same general statements 
apply here. The portions of the town in which coal is due have all 
been sounded. All of the larger bodies have been attacked, and most 
of them have been worked near to their limits. Small basins are 
coming to light from time to time, some of them in territory that had 
already been carefully drilled, as was thought. One of these bodies is 
now beimg followed under the northwestern portion of the city of 
Youngstown. 
There are now in operation in the township 5 mines, and a new 
shaft has just reached the coal in the southern part of the township, not 
far from Kyle’s Corners. 
The mines are designated as follows: 
WRVAUOLOY LSA NI GWE) ((SINEBID)) —56660.606000c0900606000.000000000000008 Witch Hazel Coal Co. 
AVillens CoaliCoxspMines (Shalt) eeescassesces acetone ecco ees Mahoning Valley Iron Co. 
Wallerian Kava, IYO baVey (SI MENTS))  Goq0c0000d00 600000 000000000000 500000000 C. H. & C. W. Andrews. 
Foster Mine} (Shatt)).xicacesccssceteeeeseon eres eee Foster Coal Co. 7 
Wueyoyabbaye? WIEDIE (SIOENIE)) oc0000G0000% 60000 010602 0600007900000 000000 Manning Coal Co. 
The first of these is one of the newly discovered bodies of coal re- 
ferred to above. There seems good reason to believe that it is an arm 
of the old Brier Hill basin which was in the main exhausted a number 
of years ago. The coal was not followed down as low in the early days 
of mining as it now is, and many of the prolongations of the swamp 
thus escaped notice. The mine gets its name from the fact that it was 
located by Chas. Latimer, Esq., Chief Engineer of the N. Y., P. & O. 
Ry., by means of the forked twig. There isa fair body of coal before 
it, the probable area being about 20 acres. The quality of the coal is 
good. It is used to supply the home market of Youngstown, and will 
without doubt be entirely devoted to this purpose. 
The Wellendorf mine is a new mine, with probably but a moderate 
acreage before it. 
The Foster bank is one of the older, and was formerly one of the 
more important mines of the district, but its days will soon be num- 
bered. Pillars are being drawn, and a few months will close its history. 
It has yielded a large amount of the best of coal. 
