908 GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 
This represents the mines between this point and Bristol Station. 
The section of the coal at Bristol has been given on a preceding page. 
A small basin of the Lower Kittanning coal is indicated in the 
vicinity of McCuneville. The seam crops out in the roadway, 1 mile 
north of McCuneville, on the Lexington road. 
Space does not allow a fuller discussion of the coals of this field. 
Enough has been given to serve as a guide in mining enterprises that 
may be undertaken here. 
COAL MINES OF LICKING COUNTY. 
But few words are required to describe the coal mines of Licking 
county. The geological range of Hopewell and Franklin townships is 
sufficient to afford a mining field, but the coals themselves are mainly 
wanting. The series rises above the place of the Kittanning coals, 
throughout part of the territory occupied by Flint Ridge, but of the 
8 seams that are due in the interval between the Freeport horizon and the 
base of the Coal Measures, only two are ever opened, and neither of these 
is persistently mined. The two seams referred to are (1) a lower coal, 
which is probably the Sharon, and (2) the Lower Mercer coal. The 
first is a thin and uncertain seam that has nowhere been followed far 
under cover, and that does not seem likely to be worked on any larger 
scale. Not an active coal bank is now known in the seam in the county. 
The Flint Ridge Cannel. 
The second seam, viz., the Lower Mercer coal, has much more 
importance and reputation, and in it the only mines of the county that 
deserve the name are opened. The chief interest is in connection with 
the cannel phase of the seam underneath the western extremity of Flint 
Ridge. | 
A promising body of cannel coal has long been known and long 
been worked, though irregularly, in the western part of Hopewell town- 
ship (mainly in lot 33), under the name of the Flint Ridge cannel. It has 
been noticed and described in all of the geological reports that have 
been made upon the region for the last 50 years, and many mining 
schemes have been founded upon it, but none of them have been largely 
successful. The lack of transportation has always blocked the way, let 
alone all other considerations. 
