MASSILLON COAL FIELD. 809 
found at the top of the slate. The floor isa hard slate, but in the 
“hills” of the mine, the conglomerate comes up to the coal. 
The coal has the full strength and quality of the seam. It is 
brought out to the Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling R’y, the mine cars 
being lowered into the valley by a double track incline, operated by 
gravity. 
PIGEON Run MINE. 
This mine is located in Sections 26, 35 and 36, Tuscarawas town- 
ship. It holds leases on about 660 acres of land, but the main coal 
basin, which includes 50 to 60 acres, is already exhausted, and pillars 
are now being drawn in the mines. The shaft gives the following 
section: 
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The mine delivers its coal to the Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling 
Railway. 
The average thickness of the coal is not less than 43 feet. Perhaps 
it runs as high as 5 feet, for there are large areas in which it holds 
fully 6 feet. In one pocket of the mine, near a horseback, the coal 
thickened up to 9 feet for a small area. Where the coal is thickest, it 
is apt to bear a 6-inch bone coal, which often gets into the cars. The 
face of the coal bears N. 25° E. to N. 30° E. The coal is worked “on 
the square”’, all entries being run on face and ends. It dips in the 
large way to the southwest, but there are many local flexures. 
As a whole, the roof is good. It consists of about 4 feet of black 
slate, overlain by the gray rock reported elsewhere. Sometimes the 
slate disappears, letting the rock down upon the coal, always to the 
detriment of the latter. Nodules of ore are found in and immediately 
above the slate. 
The quality of the coal is, in all respects, approved. It was used 
for a time in one of the Massillon furnaces, successfully. 
On the N. W. 4, Section 2, Tuscarawas, and 8. W. #, Section 35, 
Lawrence township, three drill-holes have shown a body of mineable 
