312 GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 
STATISTICS. 
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Owner’s Name. Situation. Formation. | *@ | S g i ir 
(3B) 8S) ne) may 
BS | Oe ge ae ¢33 
SS iets (eae | 228 
Bhulipriomeskieeseense: Delis. scavesasetoses Corniferous..| 23 54 |$2 75 | 67 lbs.* 
Wim Jomesmecasncs- RU rr Ay SI “4 mean 50 | 2 75 | Unknown. 
Samuel Perry ......:.. Pa Py ie RENN 5 23 OZ Mal a eeneces 68 Ibs. 
(poor) 
G. W. Corbin {........| Delaware) ....2...... a 44-9; 60 | 2 00 | Unknown. 
Richard Colwin'.......: Bellepoint ......... ei 3 COL sees 71 to 72°? 
Margaret Evans ...... IM EUK ONG 55406006 coed a 22 AS ih aetaentes ( IL % 
SeeViems halle eerense: IN. OH: 4) "sees 14, 
Spencer, Allen | . 
COWMBUIAY o8.c00 008008 Waterlime .| 2 50 | 1 25 | 70? 
Jameswsillllive cece Streughn, Van 
Wert county ... coe aa agiste ye 45 | 2 00 | 60 
B. Bohnert & Co...... Sec. 8, Union tp., : 
Van Wert Co...) =“ oe QE ? 150 | 70 to 71 
Thompson & Brown | Mill Creek, Union 
; COR sce ene Corniferous..| 24 | 100 | 2 00 | Unknown. 
Quicklime sells generally at eighteen cents per bushel at the kiln, but 
sometimes at twenty cents. The lime of the Delhi beds is of a brownish- 
white color, with darker spots and specks. The annual avetige product 
of the quarries of Philip Jones, Wm. P. Jones, and Samuel Perry, near 
Delhi, »ggregates 11,420 bushels. The kilns of Mr. Corbin, at Delaware, 
consume much more wood per one hundred bushels than any other in 
the county—indeed, more than any in north-western Ohio. They are of 
very large capacity, and usually are not entirely filled. The kilns of Mr. 
Colvin are also pronounced ill-shaped by Mr. Schmidt, who has run them 
for several years. There are no kilns in the county made on the latest 
improved plan. No progress whatever is exhibited in the methods em- 
ployed. They are the same as the methods adopted by the earliest man- 
ufacturers, and should give place to the improved methods of some of the 
late patents. 
The uses of the Huron Shale.—The only known use that can be made of 
the Huron shale, with strong probabilities of success and profit, is in the 
manufacture of hydraulic or water cement. The manufacture of petro- 
leum, illuminating gas, and of roofing-slate, has, in each case, proved 
profitless. Some have employed it as a material for roads, but it 1s found 
* Result of many trials. } 
+ Hauls stone from John Spero’s quarry, on the Scioto. 
' + Kiln holds 400 bushels. The fire passes through a volume of fourteen feet height 
of stone. 
