138 GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 
and at Zoar Station. In all this section it is rarely more than two feet 
in thickness. In the south-western corner of Stark, however, in Sugar 
Creek township, it becomes a bright, clean, and excellent coal, partially 
open-burning, from three to three and one-half feet in thickness, and is 
the seam mined at Fisher’s bank, on the Tuscarawas Valley Railroad. 
In Holmes county Coal No. 3 becomes locally of much value. It is 
the seam worked at Mast’s collieries and at Chambers’s mines; is about 
four feet thick ; a semi-cannel, and good. At Harger’s mill, in the eastern 
part of Holmes county, it is five feet thick, part cannel, part bituminous. 
In Mechanic township it is a true cannel, said to be eight feet thick; 
but 1t is not worked, nor so exposed that its value can be determined. 
In descending the Tuscarawas river the coal seam under consideration 
is seen at a great number of localities, which will be found described in 
the reports on Coshocton and Muskingum counties. It dips nearly with 
the fall of the stream, and is seen for the last time at the water level in 
the base of Putnam Hill, near Zanesville, where it is an impure cannel 
from six inches to one foot in thickness. Throughout this region the lime- 
stone which overlies it is nearly continuous, and is often very cherty. 
In southern Ohio Coal No. 8 is a less constant feature in the geology 
than further north. Its horizon is apparently marked, however, by a 
limestone which, in Licking, Muskingum, Perry, Vinton, and Jackson 
counties, lies from 120 to 170 feet above the Jackson coal. The coal 
itself, however—of which the place is below the limestone—is generally 
wanting, and where present is very thin. Nearer the Ohio, in Lawrence 
and Scioto counties, as I learn from the reports of Prof. Andrews, both 
the coal and limestone have disappeared. 
ANALYSES OF Coat No. 3. 
No. 1. Glasgo’s, near Nashville, Holmes county; cannel ......... ....-... se0-- Wormley. 
‘¢ 2. Mast’s coal, N. E. of Millersburg, Holmes county; semi-cannel...... Wormley. 
3 © Colligers eo:  * ‘ i feb lyuiswogee Wormley. 
nA so Onreekaveinn mellow reeks Moltuminmousnecces ceesecccectcieccescelcstes Wormley. 
‘““ 5. Green’s coal, New Lisbon, Columbiana county; bituminous............ Wormley. 
il 2 3. 4 5 
SPCCLICBOTA VIL Val eeaeeasedeecees 1.292 1.282 1.305 1.290 1.301 
WIRTO Terese etkessssssue teegeuees 3.90 4,20 3.85 2.50 1.30 
Volatile combustible ......... 40.50 32.20 33.95 36.60 37.10 
IDID2X6 GN SYORO), “Ggobo5 cgodieo bokaon 49.95 56.60 56.40 56.30 57.15 
IANS nee ncatnctscecsslencces vestw sees 5.65 7.00 5.80 4.60 4.45 
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 
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No}E OW} GUDD Rich anon gasccoHuncoHe eEAeee 1.55 3.04 2.06 2.05 1.95 
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