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Bottom, not exposed. 
There is a ledge of sandstone 60 feet thick under the coal. This 
is on Long Run. In Sections 12 and 18, the coal has been opened and 
found thin and unsteady. 
In Fr. Section 12, and Fr. Section 3, Lodi township, marks of two 
higher coals were found—one at .235 feet, and the other at 100 feet 
above the Meigs Creek coal. 
In neither Carthage nor Troy townships, Athens county, could the 
Meigs Creek coal be identified. A few faint marks, probably belonging 
to the upper coals, were seen, but no openings were found. 
Through Meigs county the Meigs Creek coal seems to haye entirely 
disappeared, as no trace of it could be found, although much of the county 
is above its horizon. 
The second and most important district of the Meigs Creek coal 
includes that part of Morgan county east of the Muskingum river, 
south-eastern Muskingum, all of Noble and south-western Guernsey 
counties. Through this area the Meigs Creek coal is the only coal 
above drainage that can ever be mined ina large way. There isa 
large area of coal in eastern Morgan and western Noble counties, of 4 
to 4% feet thickness, that can easily be reached by railroads in the val- 
leys of Meigs and Olive Green Creeks. __ 
Bloom township, Morgan county, holds the Meigs Creek coal in 
the north-east part in quite a number of sections. It is here from 34 
to 45 feet thick, with a characteristic parting or “tough streak” near 
the center of the stream. 
On V. Savall’s land, in N. W. 4 Section 1, Bloom township, the 
- coal measures 53 inches, including two thin partings. For the analysis 
of the coal see the following table. 
The ash is unusually large, and the sulphur is above the average. 
The coal on Wm. Barkhurst’s land, in 8S. W. ¢ Section 26, Bloom 
township, gives a section that holds with little variation through the 
entire township : 
