904 GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 
mediate vicinity. The elements are as follows, viz.: Clarion coal and 
the twojKittanning coals (found in drilling), the two Freeport horizons, 
the Brush Creek coal, the Cambridge, and the Ames limestone. The 
measurements are as follows: 
Ames limestone— 
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Cambridge limestone—In two benches, 8 feet apart— 
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Brush Creek coal No. '7a)—thin, but constant— 
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Upper Freeport coal—Black band horizon— 
cb ss limestone and clay—sour apple ore ?— 
Interval, including Upper Freeport sandstone............2 25-50 “ 
Lower Freeport coal—(No. 6a)—Fowler Coal— 
a sf TP ieee ane clay— 
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Middle Kittanning coal (Upper New Lexington), (No. 6) 
At level of low water—43 feet, including bone coal. 
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( Lower Kittanning coal (Lower New Lexington), (No. 5) 
Found in | Reported 43 feet thick. 
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| Clarion coal (No. 4a), 18 inches thick. 
In the approaches to the railroad tunnel, south of the village, 
there is a characteristic exposure of the Upper Freeport horizon, the 
coal, however, being wanting. The clay and limestone are shown in 
full force. ‘The coal comes in upon the south side of the tunnel, where 
it has been mined by the Ohio Central Coal Company, the mine being 
known as No. 2. 
The Fowler seam, at Moxahala, has been oraenwinte ¢ tested in all 
ways as a basis for mining and as a source of fuel. The Moxahala 
Furnace made use of it for a number of months as the sole supply of 
the furnace, and also as a shipping mine for the general market. 
It is 5 feet thick, when in its best conditions, in the Moxahala 
mine. It is not, however, steady in thickness. It is very dry-burning 
at this point. It has not an excessive amount of ash, but it is high in 
sulphur. Asa furnace fuel, it was a failure, under all the conditions 
to which it was subjected. ‘Too dry to coke in the oven, and too sul- 
phurous to use raw, it was charred in the open air, to expel the sulphur 
in part, but no sufficient relief from this deleterious element could be 
secured, and the record of the furnace while depending on the furnace 
mine was very unsatisfactory. 
