COAL SEAMS OF HOLMES COUNTY. 823 
Quakertown Coal (No. 2). 
The Strawbridge cannel was formerly called No. 2, but as that is 
evidently No. 3a (see Fig. VII), the former number may be employed to 
designate the “iron ore” seam of former reports, which lies about 60 
feet below the Lower Mercer limestone (blue), and 30 to 40 feet above 
the Sharon coal, which corresponds well with the Quakertown coal of 
Western Pennsylvania. The coal is from 1 to 24 feet thick, and not 
mined. At Millersburg it was 18 inches thick, and 141 feet above 
the Killbuck flats. At E. M. Wheaton’s, in northern Hardy, it is 2 
feet thick; on Chas. Steele’s, in western Hardy, it is 2% feet thick, 
and at A. A. Taylor’s, in Knox (Fig. V1), it is 2 feet thick. This 
is considered the equivalent of the “rider” vein over the Massillon 
coal in Wayne and Stark counties. It nowhere promises to be valuable. 
Coal 2a. 
At 15 to 28 feet below the Lower Mercer coal there is sometimes 
seen a two-foot vein of coal, which has yielded fuel for market, though 
on the whole it is of little value. A mile east of Millersburg it was 
mined on the farm of George Maxwell, where it consisted of two benches 
of 15 inches each, separated by ten inches of clay. At the excavation 
for the scales below the Bowen mine, 3 miles south-west of Millersburg, 
it consists of 25 feet of cannel, lying 68 feet below the Strawbridge 
cannel. In western Monroe (Fig. II) it is 2 feet thick, splitting into 
thin laminz, and of a brilliant black luster. At A. A. Taylor’s, in 
Knox (Fig. V1), it constitutes the cannel vein, which has been mined 
both by stripping and drifting. The vein has here the following struc- 
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Work was abandoned here upon the discovery of thicker veins 
above. 
Lower Mercer Coal (No. 3). 
This coal is seen in its most favorable phase at the mines of Elias 
Mast and E. M. Wheaton, 3 miles north of Millersburg, where it is 
mined in considerable quantity. The excellent limestone roof is 23 feet 
