180 GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 
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Coarse sandstone—Containing coal plants. 
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Block ore—Formerly mined by stripping ...................sseceeecees 0 6 
Lower Mercer limestone— Worked for furnaces .............seecseeees 2 6 
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Shales—Blue-black, crowded with ore nodules, calcareous, and 
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Sandstone— Massillon. 
The same seam has been worked to a small extent on the Fink 
farm, and also on the D. Heinzelman farm. 
The Upper Mercer coal is of much more importance in the town- 
ship than the seam already described. It occurs about 35 feet above 
the Lower Mercer limestone, and is generally known as Coal No. 3. 
In Newberry’s scale it is No. 3a. The Upper Mercer limestone fre- 
quently accompanies the coal, but is by no means as steady as the latter. 
It lies in disconnected blocks, buried in clay, upon the outcrop, and is 
a troublesome element in mining the coal. On the John Kirkpatrick 
farm the section of limestone and coal are as follows (T. J. Wise’s bank) : 
Ft. In. 
Upper Mercer limestone—Blue and fossiliferous ..................2++0. 0 4 
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Bure Clay sccscosdessls. eohodess ac saapsoneos eoneawacs sean cece sontanswaceoentnenenes - = 
The coal is said to become 6 inches thicker in some parts of the 
mine. It is worked at this point steadily, two or three miners being | 
employed. The coal is of fair quality, and commands a ready sale at 
the bank. It is mined for the same price that is paid in the Block coal 
mines to the northward. It is opened on 6 or 7 farms in the township, 
but the description alseady given will apply to all. 
The third and last of the coal seams of the township is the well- 
known Canfield cannel. It is called No. 4 in the township series, and 
Newberry has adopted the same designation, but it has already been 
shown that it is not the seam called No. 4 in Stark and Tuscarawas 
counties. That coal underlies the Gray or Putnam Hill limestone, the 
place of which is 30 or 40 feet below the Canfield cannel. The latter 
seam is 85 feet above the Upper Mercer coal, and 120 feet above the 
Lower Mercer limestone, and two seams of coal are due in the interval, 
