MEIGS CREEK COAL. 1075 
In the 8. W. ¢ Section 18, Brookfield township, the mark of a — 
higher coal was found. The distance above the Meigs Creek coal could — 
not be accurately determined, but it was, by barometer, near 215 feet. 
‘The blossum would indicate at least 24 feet of coal. 
Many years ago this high coal was opened, and taken to Cumber- 
land for making coke; but the thinness of the seam, end the long dis- 
‘tance to the railroad, caused it to be abandoned. 
In Sections 9 and 16, same township, a coal mark was found at 160 
to 180 feet above the Meigs Creek. No openings into it could be heard 
-of. Nothing was seen of any coals below the Meigs Creek coal. 
In Buffalo township, Noble county, nothing could be found of the 
Meigs Creek coal, as the land is all too low for it. It is possible that 
there are a very few outliers of the coal in the tops of some of the 
highest points in the south-east corner of the township, but if there 
should be, they would be of no practical value. 
Noble township, of Noble county, has very little of the Meigs 
‘Creek coal. There are a few outliers in the east central part and south- 
west corner. No openings could be found in the eastern one, but 
several of the western ones have been worked for local supply. 
At Hiramsburgh, in Section 13, Noble township, a small outlier is 
worked for the villagers’ and farmers’ use. The coal is here from 4 to 
A} teet thick, and by hand-level, 258 feet above the Ames or Crinoidal 
limestone. 
The place for the Pittsburgh coal was passed in this section, but 
nothing found of it. The Meigs Creek coal at Hiramsburgh makes a 
large amount of red ashes, and some clinkers. , 
Sharon township, Noble county, holds a very large area of the 
Meigs Creek coal. In the eastern part the coal is well up in the hills, 
but in the southern and western parts the coal is low, and little of it 
-earried away by the creek. 
The coal thickens from 3 to 33 feet in the northern bait of the 
‘township, to 4 and 43 feet in the southern parts. 
The roof is usually bad, and all entries have to be thoroughly 
‘timbered, and the rooms driven narrow and well posted. The ribs 
should be left thick. J 
No sections of the coal could be had in this township. Nothing 
was seen of the thin coals below the Meigs Creek coal, but the mark of 
the thin coal, at 160 to 170 feet above, was found in Sections 3 and 10, 
Sharon township. | 
