226 GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 
IV. COAL MINES OF PORTAGE COUNTY. 
Passing westward from northern Mahoning, we come into Portage 
county. Although most of its area lies within the coal measures, it has 
comparatively little of economic interest in its geological scale, so far 
as known. Nothing has been added to our knowledge of its resources 
since Newberry’s report, in vol. III, except in its one productive coal 
field, that, viz., located in Palmyra. 
A valuable basin of the lowest or the Sharon coal, agreeing in all 
respects with the Mahoning Valley deposits, has been known to exist 
in Palmyra for a number of years. It lies due west of the Austintown 
field, and is about 20 miles distant from it. It is connected with the 
latter by some small intervening basins, now mostly exhausted. 
The genera] order in this region is well shown in the following 
section, taken near the Scott mine, in Palmyra township: 
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SECTION AT PALMYRA. 
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The present condition of the field is as follows: Three mines are 
in operation at Diamond, one mile east of Palmyra Center. They 
belong respectively to the Palmyra, the Black Diamond, and the Scott 
Coal Companies. Their combined capacity ranges from 750 to 1,000 
tons per day. The output is very much less. The railroad on which 
they are located is narrow gauge, which fact compels reshipment of the 
coal before reaching any large market, and thus puts them to dis- 
advantage. The royalty is also heavy, ranging from 25 to 40 cents 
per ton. 
