990 GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 
sections of Washington as the Price Coal. Its structure is shown in 
the appended figure, which is taken from John Price’s farm, Section 
32, Washington. 
WLEGVURE CXXXM 
SECTIDN OF-JOHN na ces COAL 
The Lower Mercer coal is opened on numerous sections, and the 
aggregate annual production will reach several thousand tons, perhaps, 
but the coal could not be mined in competition witb any of our 
ordinary seams. 
Below the Mercer limestone, there are two other coal horizons 
that apparently represent the Quakertown and the Sharon coals of the 
general scale (Nos. 1 and 2, of Newberry.) 
About 45 feet below the Lower Mercer limestone, a coal is often 
found, and in a few instances it acquires volume enough to tempt a 
little benching for it on the part of the farmers on whose lands it 
may occur. It has never been followed many feet under cover. It is 
known as well by the name of the Mohler coal as by any other, the 
name being derived from the Mohler farm, in Section 30, Gore town- 
ship. Its maximum thickness will scarcely exceed 2 feet, and this 
amount is divided into two or more benches. 
The Sharon coal horizon is more persistent, but scarcely more 
valuable in the district. A few banks are opened in it on the western 
margin of the coal field, but the seam is unsteady and of little account. 
The largest showing is, perhaps, that which is quite widely known 
as the ‘eight-foot vein,” of Section 4, Washington. On the farm 
of Nicholas Bowers the seam shows the following structure: 
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