822 GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 
LG RE. WOOO 
SHARON COAL,(N21) STEPHEN R.WILLIAMS. 
MONROE TP. 
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As compared with the other coals of the county, this shows excellent 
quality. The fixed carbon is reasonably high; the ash and especially 
the sulphur are low. The upper bench mines like a block coal, the 
lower is more irregular. The coal lights quickly, is somewhat cementing, 
and burns to a light cinder and gray ash with no clinkers. It is esti- 
mated that there are some 800 acres in Monroe township where this coal 
should be productive. Southward of 8. R. Williams it is mined by 
Isaac Williams, westward by Wm. Mackey, on lot 28, where it is 23 to 
3 feet thick, with a shale parting near the middle, and northward by 
Smith and James Martin. Opposite Millersburg it is mined by Freeman 
and Bilderback, on Section 1, where it is 23 feet thick, with a sulphurous 
parting of three inches. It is rusty, soft, and poor-looking, but both 
slack and coal find ready sale. Two miles north-west of Millersburg, on 
D. Snyder’s farm, it is 20 inches thick, with a slate parting of two 
inches. It has been mined also by Joseph McElroy, in north-eastern 
Prairie township, and Franz Cooper, on Sand Run, in Hardy, and by 
several parties in Knox township. In Mechanic and Killbuck it may 
yet be found of workable thickness. 
