252 - GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 
per perch, or five dollars per cord. The sandstone taken out in the east- 
ern part of the county brings a better price. The best sells for $2 per 
perch. Other grades bring $1.50 and $1. <A cheaper quality is sold for 
fifty cents per load. Flagging sells from six to twenty cents per square 
foot; a thin kind of walling stone for fifty cents per load. 
For brick and common red pottery the Drift clays are considerably 
used. These clays afford in all places a very fine material for these 
uses. There is probably not a square mile within the county where 
such clay could not be obtained. In the progress of the survey of the 
county the following establishments of this kind were noted. This list 
may not be complete : 
Brick AND PotrEry WoRKS. 
A. Gronerberger, Bucyrus—Brick. Situated in the creek bottoms. The material 
here used is a clay-loam, and contains no gravel. The brick, which are of a dark red 
color, show no evidence of lime when broken. 
Wilham Sitter, New Washington—Brick. 
Joseph Schell, ay —Pottery. 
Jacob Green, section 34 (?), Chatfield—Brick. 
Retan, section 1 (?), Liberty—Tile. 
Matthias Haiser, Crestline—Brick. 
John Willerton, tf —Tile and brick. 
Daniel Baslinger, Bucyrus—Brick. 
Bryant & Smith, i or 
William Fail, Galion—Brick. 
Leopold Wiltendollar, Galion—Brick. 
John Cronowelt, a 2 
“A section 18, Whetstone—Tile. 
The eastern portion of the county, especially the rolling strip of land 
that characterizes the line of junction between the Berea grit and the 
Bedford shale, is well supplied with gravel and sand. These knolls are 
largely made up of stratified gravel and sand mingled with northern 
bowlders. One of the oldest gravel pits in the county is that near the 
depot at Leesville. From it thousands of car-loads have been taken for 
use on the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad. It affords also 
a great many northern bowlders of all sizes, averaging about eighteen 
inches in diameter. This gravel ridge has already been referred to under 
the head of Drift. Several deposits of gravel and sand were also noted 
in the flat and more clayey portions of the county; but here they are 
much more rare, and also more valuable. One occurs on Mr. Nathan . 
Cooper’s land, in the bank of the Sandusky River, 8. W. 4 section 382, 
Liberty. 
