MASSILLON COAL FIELD. 801 
excitement that claimed to revolutionize the Geology of North-eastern 
Ohio, is shown to be without a shadow of support from the facts. 
The Buckeye, Fulton and Barney McGue mines are all located on 
the west side of the Tuscawaras river, and from 50 to 75 feet above it. 
They are opposite to the village of Canal Fulton. They belong essen- 
tially to one basin, though complete continuity cannot be claimed for 
the several deposits. The Fox Lake workings are between 2 and 3 
miles due west of these, and connections between these areas are known 
to exist. The three mines named above are all substantially exhausted, 
and in fact have been so for many years. Pillars, crop coal, and 
occasionally small troughs of coal, that have been passed by in former 
workings, are all that keep up the production in this territory at 
present. The coal removed was mostly 4 feet in thickness and all 
the conditions agreed with those already described. 
THE LAWRENCE MINE (MAPLE GROVE.) 
Passing to Section 29, just north of and connected with the Pitts- 
burgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago R’y, we find one of the large mines 
_of the field. It is operated by the Ridgway Burton Company, of 
Massillon. It holds lease upon 350 or more acres of land, and is now 
producing 200 tons per day. The coal is 75 to 100 feet deep, more 
than half of the section being drift. Quicksand is often very trouble- 
some. 
The mine has been worked for a number of years, and all the coal 
that was first known has been taken out. The old workings were 
terminated abruptly on the north by a “horseback” or intrusive 
sandstone, but when coal was found of good thickness beyond this a 
level was pushed through the rock, and all the coal of the mine now 
comes from this new territory. 
The coal is somewhat unsteady in thickness, being frequently 
traversed by the sandstones that mark the channels cut through the 
original swamp. It averages over 4 feet. The face of the coal 
runs N. 25° E. The roof is dark slate, overlain by gray shale. The 
floor is 2 to 4 inches of hard slate over fire-clay. It mines fairly large, 
but does not bear handling as well as the coal of some other mines. 
One keg of powder brings 20 to 25 tons, but some of the rooms require 
no powder. One-fifth of the coal filled out by the miner passes through 
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