MASSILLON COAL FIELD. 807 
CoAL MINES oF TuscARAWAS TOWNSHIP. 
Three mines are now in operation in this township, viz., the Sippo, 
the Windsor, and the Groye, No. 2. The Massillon City mine has only 
recently been abandoned. It was also known as the Brookfield mine. 
It has yielded a large amount of coal, of high quality. 
THE Srprpo MINE. 
The Sippo mine is located in Section 1, and was formerly known 
as the Fruit Hill mine. It has been in operation 8 years, 2 years as a 
country bank, and 6 years as a shipping mine. It has a large capacity, 
sending out 350 to 500 tons, when running full. It has side tracks to 
both the Wheeling and Lake Erie, and the Cleveland, Lorain and 
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The coal has a good roof and runs steady. It has a slate floor 
above the fire-clay. Under the clay is a very hard sandrock. The 
quality, as elsewhere, is a little poorer at the top of the seam, the coal 
there inclining to a long-grained or splinty character. The ‘ white 
cap,” so characteristic of Massillon coal, is found fully developed in 
this mine. The face of the coal bears N. 26° EK. The coal averages 
about 4 feet, ranging between 25 and 4% feet. The mine is provided 
with a slope, as well as with a shaft, the former being 500 yards long. 
An exceptional fact in the dip is to be noted in this mine. The 
seam inclines to the northward, the level of the coal falling 14 feet in 
# ofa mile. This unusual and unexpected fact complicates the drainage 
of the mine to some extent. , 
The coal is disposed in a narrow and somewhat tortuous basin, 
varying from 60 to 100 yards in width, and extending through 14 miles. 
Its general direction is N. E.and 8. W. The entries cannot be driven 
on the face of the coal, because, in this way, they would soon come to 
