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those coals, however, and there is less of it to the acre. While it is not 
superior in quality to the Nelsonville coal, it still outranks it in value, 
because there is more of it. 
Fifteen well-equipped mines are now established in the district. 
Four or five of them that are at work upon outliers of the coal in 
Monday Creek and Green townships are near their limits, but most of 
the mines are at the edge of what seems one of the largest bodies of 
unbroken coal in the entire field. 
The Baird Furnace Mines. 
The Furnace mine is located in the largest of the outliers of the 
great seam in Monday Creek township, in Sections 11 and 14. There 
are nine of these outliers that occupy as many of the separate hill-tops 
and ridges of the township, but their combined acreage is small. The 
Furnace tract originally comprised about 50 acres of coal, but of this 
amount at least a fifth has already been mined. Winona Furnace owns 
the coal of the second largest outlier of the township, located in Sections 
14 and 15. There was originally about 20 acres of the coal, and of it 
more than half has been already mined. 
A small tract of 4 or 5 acres on the Bowman (formerly the Folsom 
farm), in Section 10, has been worked in a small way. i 
The coal of these several outliers is represented in the following 
sections: 
FIGURE EVY 
SECTION FROM BAIRDS COALMINE 
Coal 
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