MINES OF COSHOCTON COUNTY. 861 
rooms. The roof is better than the floor. A heavy bed of white, plastic 
clay underlies the coal, and has a tendency to heave, unless the water 
is taken good care of. The roof is shale and has ordinary strength, but 
it “cuts,” under the action of the air, when left for a number of years. 
In such cases a good deal of timbering is necessary, if danger is to be 
avoided. 
The coal produced by the Coalport mine was of the usual type of 
the Coshocton seam, and always took a good place in market. The 
mine was made to yield in its later years nearly 4,000 tons, ‘run of 
mine,” to the acre. Good mining ought to gain more than this from a 
seam of this thickness. 3 
A large body of coal of this same character occupies Sections 11, 12, 
19, 20, 21, 22, and lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 of this township. Much of this 
would find an easier outlet by the Coalport route than by any other. 
In conclusion, it may be said that there is in Jackson township a 
larger area of the Coshocton coal than in any other township of the 
county. The condition of the seam also is as favorable here as in any 
other part of the county. 
Virginia Township probably ranks next to Jackson in its area of 
this coal seam among the townships of the county. The largest and 
most valuable area is included between the little Wakatomika and the 
Tuscarawas valleys. There are more than 4,000 acres of coal land in 
this body. The mineable deposits beginning in southern Jackson extend 
through this township into Muskingum county below. The character 
of the vein is illustrated by this section, measured on the lands of John 
Vickers, near Adams’s Mills: 
FLGURE Why 
VICKERS COAL Ng6 
Vevey 
False Roof 
_80 
Partin i Beda Hie 
UGolwasm fi Mode vino N to? 
ARC sna Gee edd ican: Eso ene teh | 
This section holds good in all the exposures to the north and 
westward. ‘There are many country banks in this township. Those 
