COAL MINES OF VINTON COUNTY. 1001 
Southern Ohio. It is the lower mine of the Zaleski Company, and it © 
will be described in a subsequent paragraph. 
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On Mr. H. R. Demming’s land, Section 23, Madison, the coal shows 
a thickness of 58 inches. 
The seam has been worked at many points south of Zaleski. To 
it must be referred the coal mined by Dubler, Scott, McLaughlin, 
Bowen, and also the coal mined at Prattsville. The seam is everywhere 
covered throughout this region by a massive showing of the Hecla 
sandstone which separates this horizon from the Ferriferous limestone 
horizon. 
It is also without question the Eagle Tunnel coal, to which various 
names have been heretofore assigned. The top of the coal is 36 feet 
below the Ferriferous limestone, and between the two is found the Hecla 
sandstone. 
The Limestone Coal. 
Under this designation the most reliable and serviceable coal for 
local supply of Vinton and Jackson counties is known. It lies below 
the Ferriferous limestone, generally immediately beneath it, but some- 
times separated by as much as 15 or even 18 feet of shale and clay. A 
cover of shale is of great advantage to the coal. 
This position marks it as the Upper Clarion or Scrub Grass coal 
of the Pennsylvania series. By many who have sought to apply New- 
berry’s scale of numbers to Southern Ohio, it has been counted Coal 
No. 4, but this designation is seen to be inadmissible, inasmuch as 
the Brookville or Putnam Hill limestone coal lies 20 to 40 feet below 
it. If these numbers are to be adhered to, the coal would be known as 
