862 GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 
most prominent are John Vickers, Race Bland, John Cox, Geo. Cox, of 
Adams’s Mills; John Barclay, of Conesville; Abner McCoy, of Willow. 
Brook; Wm. Huffman, Wm. McDonald, John Cornell, Sam’! Perkins, 
Thomas Darr, Asa Meek, and Geo. Wright, of Moscow. 
The coal is thinner and of a poorer grade at Moscow than in the 
other districts; it presented the following section in the bank of Wm. 
McDonald: 
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Going eastward, the coal thickens up to 4 feet at Abner McCoy’s 
bank, near Willow Brook, and about 3 miles west of the Tuscarawas 
‘Valley. About one mile to the south-east of this mine are the new 
mines of David Davis, and 2 miles to the north-east are the Old Coal- 
port mines. So the thickness of the coal at this point is of value in 
determining the extent of the development of the 4-ft. coal on which 
these large mines are established. 
There is but one railroad shipping bank in the township, viz., the 
Davis mines already named. The Davis mines, owned by Davis Davis, © 
of Conesville, are at present the most active in the county. They lie at 
the head of a small water-course, about 2 miles north of the Pan Handle 
Railroad, at Conesville, being located in the north-west corner of Sec- 
tion 11. The tipple and shoots are arranged to deliver coal to the canal 
or railroad at will. 
The tramway to the mines is of T-rail, but it is soon to be replaced 
by a railroad track. There are two banks now run by Mr. Davis; the 
old mine or No. 1 employs now only about 15 men, and the new mine 
45, counting in miners and daymen as well, making about 60 employes. 
A large part of the coal taken out is sold to the Pan Handle Railroad. 
‘The road takes the run of the mine, slack and all, as the coal is so 
strongly coking, that it agglomerates when put into a hot fire. When 
