COAL MINES OF NORTHERN PERRY COUNTY. 899 
thickness, the lower bench measuring 2 feet 9 inches, and the upper, 1 
foot 5 inches, with the usual thickness of overlying bone coal. This 
part of the seam is open to measurement. The anomaly consists in 40 
inches of coal, which, as is claimed, is found below the regular seam, 
_ and separated from it by an interval of 20 inches, 11 inches consisting 
of hard shale. There seems no reason to doubt that there is at this 
particular locality some abnormal facts in the section, but, from an 
unaccountable lack of enterprise, no proper exhibition of the compound 
seam has been made, at least in late years. The expenditure of a few 
dollars would furnish a full-faced section of the whole structure, and 
set at rest all questions as to the facts. Until such a section is furnished, 
it will be safe to conclude that the lower coal makes no addition to the 
value of the field. Claims are made of the same doubled seam on 
adjacent farms, but if the owners have not faith enough in the claims 
to properly test them, they cannot complain of the skepticism of the 
public. The one established fact in which real and demonstrable value 
lies, is in the thickness of the main seam, which is greater here by 
several inches than elsewhere in.the township. 
Enough has now been said to demonstrate the value and importance 
of the Kittanning coals in Clayton township. The coal of Reading 
township, in the 4 sections already named, exactly corresponds to the 
facts as now described in Clayton, but it lies high in the hills, and there- 
fore occupies but a small area and need not be further treated here. 
Pike Township. 
The coal of Pike township is mined almost exclusively from the 
Kittanning seams, and mainly from the upper (No. 6). The only 
exception to be made is that the Lower Freeport coal has been worked 
in years past in one or two mines. The two coals of the Kittanning 
series get the names, by which they are as widely known as by any other 
in Central Ohio, from New Lezington, in this township, where both 
have long been worked. There are but few and small areas in the 
township from which they have been removed by erosion, and the 
upper seam is, so far.as is known, always present where it is due. It is 
unnecessary to repeat the statements as to the character of the coals. 
All of the facts given in connection with the adjoining townships apply 
here without qualification. There is scarcely a section in the township 
in which the upper coal (No. 6) is not mined either for neighborhood 
