278 GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 
inches. The Lower Kittanning seam fails throughout this township, so 
far as now known. : 
Considerable disturbance of the series is shown in the tunnel, south 
of Newcomerstown. The coal that is cut in the tunnel has been faulted 
and doubled to an unusual extent for an Ohio seam. } 
The coal seam now under discussion has been followed through the 
central townships of the county, and has been shown to be universal in 
its distribution, and steady, if not generous in its development. It re- 
mains to indicate the leading facts as to the seam on the line of its 
western outcrop. This outcrop occupies parts of Franklin, Wayne, 
Sugar Creek, Auburn and Bucks township. The valley of the South 
Fork of Sugar Creek traverses these townships, and contains in the 
hills that bound it a fair showing of this seam as well as of the others 
that belong to the section. Quite a careful examination was made of 
this line a few years since by Professor E. B. Andrews, of the Geolog- | 
ical Survey, in the interest of the Connotton Valley Railway extension. 
A number of facts gathered from his published report will be used in 
the succeeding brief account of the same district. 
The Middle Kittanning seam (Coal No. 6) lies high in the hills 
along this line, and consequently its acreage is much less extensive 
than in the townships already reviewed. Coming southward from 
Stark county, it is first found in what is known as the Agnus Hill, in 
Franklin township, 2 or 3 miles south and west of Beach City. The 
coal has long been worked at this point. It has been mined mainly 
under light cover and is of comparatively small volume, measuring but 3 
feet 3 inches, all told. The hill rises high enough in the ridge to which 
it belongs to furnish a scanty showing of the Freeport horizon, both of 
the coals being represented by “ blossoms” at least. 
_ A mile or two southward the seam is again worked in the Haas 
bank. It is 4 feet thick, and has a good name in the neighborhood. 
Still further southward, and in Wayne township, we find the Shoup 
bank, the Baker bank and the Wallick bank, all in the same coal. The 
first of these openings shows unusual volume for this seam, the measure- 
ment reported here being 5 ft. 2 in. The coal of the Wallick bank 
shows a thickness of 4 ft. 4inches. The bottom bench is 13 inches 
thick, and the parting 1 inch. The areas in all of these cases are 
limited by the fact already referred to, viz., that the coal lies high in 
the hills. The quality is of the usual Middle Kittanning type. 
