COAL MINES OF SCIOTO COUNTY. 1039 
from the considerable interval that separates it from the ore. By the 
table given above, it will be seen that this interval ranges between 15 
and 40 feet. The first figure would create no difficulty, and the second, 
perhaps, need not, when the gradations are established between these 
extremes. 
At all events, a persistent but not very valuable seam holds this 
place in the scale. Itis close to and may replace the sandblock ore. 
It generally consists of two benches separated by a band of shale, and 
is hence sometimes known as the slate vein. 
In the river hills, the place of the seam is about 30 feet below the 
Franklin or main block ore. It is mined in Section 8, Hamilton town- 
ship, Lawrence county, and also on lot 16, Greene township, Scioto 
county. The former is known as the Collins coal, the latter, which is 
a cannel, as the Fulsom coal. The Collins coal consists of two benches, 
separated by 6 or 8 inches of clay or shale. The entire thickness is 
sometimes 4 feet. It is also seen on lot 44, French Grant, 28 feet below 
the main block ore. On Sections 2, 3, 8, 20, 21, 26, 31, 34, Elizabeth 
township, the presence of the coal has been marked. Throughout this 
region it ranges from 12 to 20 inches in thickness. Its quality seems 
good. On section 14 and 26, Decatur, it is also present. | 
_ It is mined and shipped te a small extent at Pioneer Station, Scioto 
county, the seam here being known as the Webster cannel. It is 16 to 
20 inches thick. It is only locally a cannel, the same seam being 
entirely bituminous at other openings in the neighborhood. Cook’s 
cannel mine, half way between Bloom Furnace and Pioneer Station, 
occasionally ships a little coal by rail. There is here a fine exhibi- 
tion of stigmaria in the bottom slate. The Webster Brick Works mine 
this seam south of the village, the coal being 36 inches thick, and 
being known as splint coal. | 
It is not necessary to name other exposures of this horizon. The 
best that have been found have been already reported. This is Coal 
No. 3 of the Kentucky series. : 
The Tionesta Coal, No. 36, No. 4 of Kentucky. 
The place of this coal is well-marked by the Franklin or main 
block ore, which lies just below it, the interval being 5 to 20 feet. 
This places it at about 80 to 100 feet below this Ferriferous limestone. 
A peculiarity of the horizon is the splitting of the seam into a number 
