COAL MINES OF JACKSON COUNTY. 1011 
‘about which much has been written in earlier reports. There is no 
doubt that a thin seam, seldom exceeding 30 inches in thickness, 
occupies several thousand acres in this township, possessing as much 
steadiness as is to be looked for at this horizon. Analysis does not 
entirely confirm the claims that have been made for the Gilliland coal. 
As sampled by Mr. Brown and analyzed by Professor Lord, it shows 
the following constitution. It may be added that the appearance of 
the coal corresponds in every way to these results : 
Gilliland or Canter Coal—Jackson Township (Lord). 
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A general outline of the Wellston coal field is given in the map 
that accompanies this chapter, but the sinuosities and wants of the field, 
due to erosion, are not represented in this outline. The map is designed to 
show the limits within which all the fairly workable portions of the 
seam, so far as known, are included, but it must be distinctly under- 
stood that the seam is not present in all of the area devoted to it upon 
_the map, and also that it may be psesent in areas where not represented. 
SECTION II.—THE JACKSON SHAFT COAL, AND THE WELLSTON 
COAL FIELDS. 
By ANDREW Roy. 
The Jackson Shaft Coal Field. 
The Jackson Shaft coal is the lower bed of the State series. It is 
not so persistent a seam as those lying above it, but it is widely and 
favorably known as a furnace coai of great value. It lies in basins or 
troughs of somewhat limited extent, which seem to have been scooped 
out of the conglomerate rock and underlying Cuyahoga shale anterior 
to the deposition of the carboniferous accumulation from which the coal 
is derived. ees 
This coal is found in its best development in and around the village 
of Jackson, 40 to 90 feet below the surface. It was discovered in 1863 
