390 GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 
The next deposits of ore in following southwestward are found in 
Tuscarawas county. This county is, by way of excellence, the black- 
band field of the State, and the seam is generally and justly known as 
the Tuscarawas blackband. 
The map of the county that appears on page 257 indicates the 
positions of all the ore hills of the county. The observations already 
recorded in Stark and Carroll counties can be combined with these to 
show the area occupied by the seam (see map on page 65). It is con- 
fined in its characteristic development, according to present knowledge, 
to the townships of Osnaburg, Paris and Sandy, of Stark county; Rose, 
of Carroll county ; and Sandy, Fairfield, Dover, York, Auburn, Jefferson, 
Salem and Oxford, of Tuscarawas county. A line drawn from the 
northeast corner of Osnaburg township to the northeast corner of 
Auburn township would mark approximately the western outcrop of 
the ore for the first portion of its extent. Such a line would be about 
25 miles in length, and its direction would be nearly southwest. From 
the northeast corner of Auburn township, the field is continued to the 
southward, but the direction of its axis is abruptly changed. A line 
running from this point due south, and 20 miles in length, will mark 
the approximate western outcrop of the field in this direction. In both 
portions, a breadth of 6 miles, at right angles to the line of western 
outcrop, will reach every ore hill. The greatest developments of the 
ore are found in Auburn, Jefferson and Oxford townships, and these 
are represented in a subsidiary map which will presently appear. 
Returning to the northern boundary of Tuscarawas county we find 
but little land in Sandy township high enough to receive the ore, but 
on at least one of these few points the ore is reported. On the farm 
of Wm. Gordon, one mile east of Mineral Point, the coal of the seam 
is 20 inches thick, and the blackband is developed also to some extent. 
As to its quality and quantity, there are conflicting statements. The 
hill has been sold or leased as an ore property, but the contract is now 
before the courts. 
In Fairfield township two bodies of blackband are being mined at 
the present time, but a number of separate areas have already been ex- 
hausted, the credit for the discovery and first use of the ore belonging 
to this township (see vol. III, page 77). 
The two tracts now furnishing ore are the Labb hill, near Zoar 
Station, and the Kelly farm, a little more than 2 miles south of the 
