1216 GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 
tively level, though arches are occasionally encountered in mining which 
rise to 25 and 30 feet in height. The coal gradually loses in thickness 
in ascending these subterranean hills, but it bravely holds on and dips 
to its normal level without break or want in its continuity. 
This seam is due in the hills surrounding the village of Jackson 
150 feet above the Shaft coal. Itis 2 to 2$ feet in thickness, and 
is mined for local consumption only. As a house fuel it is greatly 
superior to the Shaft coal. At Coalton, 4 miles north of Jackson, its 
average thickness is three feet; at Wellston, 4 miles east of Coalton, it 
is 4 feet thick. ? ) 
A branch of the Ohio Southern Railroad, known as the Horse 
Creek branch, extends from Jackson to Wellston, passing up Horse 
Creek to Coalton in a northerly course, thence changing to the east along 
Pigeon Creek. The Toledo, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railway inter- 
sects the Ohio Southern at Coalton, thence runs along side of the Ohio 
Southern to Glen Roy, two miles east of Coalton. At Glen Roy, the 
roads diverge, the T. C. & St. L. curving southward. They again con- 
verge a mile south of Wellston on the Portsmouth branch of the Cin- 
cinnati, Washington and Baltimore Railroad. A branch of the T. C. 
& St. L. extends from the Wellston to Buckeye Furnace and to the 
cannel coal mines on Coal Run, in Milton township. 
The seat of the coal mining industry of Jackson county is located 
on the Horse Creek branch of the Ohio Southern Railroad, between 
Jackson and Wellston, and on the Toledo, Cincinnati and St. Louis 
road between Coalton and Wellston. ; 
On the Horse Creek road, between Jackson and Coalton, there are 
five different branches or switches on which mines are opened on the 
Coalton coal, namely, the Price branch, the Springfield branch, and the 
Eagle branch, situate on the west side of the road, and the Chapman 
branch and Ada branch on the east side of the road. These branch 
roads extend up the ravines which open into Horse Creek, and range 
from 300 yards to one mile in length. The following are the names of 
the mines and names of operators of the same on the respective 
branches: 
West Side.—Price Branch—3 Mines. 
Name of Mine. oe Name of Operator. 
Newport: Mines &. . sens... eee meee eee Newport Coal Co. 
Price Mine .................0. BMAD SE SORE BONE On Oe: Price Bros. — 
Carr Mie! sis5 Seek cee eee eee Jas. S. Carr. 
