COAL MINES OF NORTHERN PERRY COUNTY. 905 
The coal mines well and bears transportation fairly well. It can- 
not, however, compete in market with the Middle Kittanning seam, 
from either north or south of the Moxahala divide, under present 
conditions. 
Jackson Township. 
The coal seams and mines of Jackson township remain to be 
briefly noticed in this general division of the county. 
The lower seams make the same impotent and valueless showing 
that has been already described in other townships. Nothing that 
deserves the name of mineable coal is found until we reach the Kittan- 
ning horizon. 
Reference has already been made to the section recently obtained 
at Junction City in the deep wells that have been drilled there. In 
the surrounding country also, the second seam of coal or the Quaker- 
town seam is frequently shown. It sometimes reaches two feet in 
thickness. It is locally known as the Mohler coal, having been mined 
to a small extent on the farm of Mrs. B. Mohler, Section 30, Falls 
township, Hocking county. A few tons are occasionally quarried out 
of its outcrops. It is nowhere mined. 
The Lower Mercer coal is generally less than a foot in thickness. 
The Upper Mercer is below 20 inches in thickness in all places where 
it is seen. It is known in some neighborhoods as the “ 16-inch seam.” 
The Tionesta coal (No. 36) is known in this township as the Can- 
nel seam. It lies about 45 to 50 feet above the Lower Mercer lime- 
stone, which is a stratum that every one knows, and which every one 
who attempts to trace the geological order is obliged to use. This 
coal is sometimes worked in the smallest possible way, by benching 
upon its outcrops. It has in no case been reported more than 2 feet 
in thickness. It is shown on Sections 14, 23 and 35. 
The coals that are mined in the township are the following, viz.: 
the Lower Kittanning, No. 5, and the Middle Kittanning No. 6. 
The Lower Freeport coal, No. 6a, is present in a few sections, having 
a thickness of 18 inches. These seams are respectively known as the 
Lower, Middle, and Upper seams. 
The Lower Kittanning seam, which is here styled the “lower 
vein”, is mined on Sections 23 and 26, on the farms of John 
Studer (formerly the Hitchcock farm) and F. Dumolt, respectively. 
