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the county, and yield a considerable local supply of coal from two or 
more seams. On the southern and southeastern borders of the county 
the Upper Coal Measures occur, and they here contain a fine develop- 
ment of the seam called the Cumberland coal by Professor Andrews. 
It is No 8c of Stevenson’s sections, and the Barnesville coal of the 
present report. 
Tne Lower Coal Measures are limited in their development to the 
deeper valleys of the northern and central regions of the county. The 
sections given in Figs. XVI, XVII and XVIII, of chapter I, serve to 
represent the general order. 
The following seams of the Lower Measures are worked to a greater 
or less extent in Guernsey county at the present time, viz.: 
Upper Freeport coal. 
Lower Freeport coal. 
Upper Kittanning coal ? 
Middle Kittanning coal. 
Only the first and last of this series have any large or general 
value. They constitute Newberry’s No. 7 and No. 6 of the Tuscarawas 
Valley. The remaining seams might be discarded without decreasing to 
any appreciable extent the coal production of the county. The Upper 
Freeport is the only one of these seams upon which any shipping mines 
are founded in the county. 
The Lower Kittanning seam (Coal No. 5) also exists in fair thick- 
ness, and of good quality in the valley of Will’s Creek, from Kimbolton 
southwards as far as Miller’s Ford. Throughout this portion of the 
valley it cannot be said to lie above drainage in any profitable sense of 
the word, but it is just about level with low water for a considerable 
part of the territory. 
At Kimbolton, Hon. T. S. Luccock reached the seam in a shaft 
sunk near his residence. The coal lies 38 feet below the upper seam, 
No. 6, and immediately below it the Kittanning clay was found, with a 
thickness of 20 feet. It is a plastic clay, and is white and promising. 
At 68 feet below this seam the Putnam Hill limestone was struck. 
The same stratum is found a mile further down the valley on the land 
of J. S. Frame, where is has been quarried and burned for lime for a 
number of years. The quality of the coal found at Kimbolton was 
reported good. 
The next shaft that reaches this seam in the valley is a trial pit at 
