MEIGS CREEK COAL. 1083: 
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The Upper Barnesville coal gives the following result, when: 
analyzed: 
Upper Barnesville or Meigs Creek Coal (Lord). 
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The ash is still high, but the sulphur is far below the usual per 
cent. for the Meigs Creek coal. This mine is now worked only ina 
small way, furnishing a part of the coal for the town of Barnesville. 
The layer of clay or “soapstone” between the main seam and the 
roof coal makes the mining of this coal more expensive and dangerous 
than it would otherwise be. The soapstone is very wet, and is full of 
slips” or “faults,” and should be taken down with the coal, or imme- 
diately after. It forms a very treacherous roof when left up. 
Going west along the Central Ohio Railroad, from Barnesville to 
Quaker City, Guernsey county, a fair barometer section can be had of 
the upper coals down to the Ames or Crinoidal limestone. 
The distances from the bottom of the Pittsburgh coal are as follows: 
Coal, 18” thick, in railroad cut, at Barnesville........................ 200-210 feet. 
Coal, 6” thick, in railroad cut, west of Barnesville.................. 153 rf 
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Ames, or Crinoidal limestone, below..................secsesesceeeee coves 140-160 “ 
This would make the Meigs Creek, or Upper Barnesville, at 240 
to 260 feet above to Ames or Crinoidal limestone. The Upper Barnes- 
