PUTNAM COUNTY. 389 
Wyandot County, and styled the Tymochtee slate, although the characters of 
the latter, especially its thin beds, are not entirely wanting in Putnam 
county. Some of the principal quarries within the county are in the 
bed of Reilly Creek, among which the following may be mentioned: 
S. W. 1 section 30, Blanchard township; quarry of James Wade. 
N. W. + section 6, Reilly township; quarry of F. N. Climer. 
N. HK. + section 36, Ottawa township; quarry of Judge J. Y. Sackett, 
affording some thick, even-bedded stone, the blocks of which are some- 
times ten to sixteen inches and four feet long. 
Section 6, Reilly township; quarry of William Blodgett. 
N. H. 4 section 7, Reilly township; quarry of Michael Bridenbauch. 
This quarry affords stone resembling that seen in the Scioto River a 
couple of miles below Middletown, in Marion county, being blotched and 
variously mottled with blue and drab, in beds ten to twelve inches thick. 
Section 8, Reilly township; land of George W. Alkire. 
_ N. W. 4 section 18, Reilly township; quarry on the land of M. 8. Rice. 
Good stone from the Waterlime is also obtained at Pendleton. 
In the bed of Cranberry Creek are the following quarries: 
Section 23, Pleasant township; the quarry of James McComb supplies 
the village of Columbus Grove. 
N. W. i section 26, Pleasant township; quarry of Joseph McComb. 
S. EH. 4+ section 23, Pleasant township; quarry of J. Postleweight. 
In the bed of Hog Creek the Waterlime is very often exposed, and is 
usually slightly worked for common stone for foundations. On the 
N. W. 4 section 16, township of Union, land of A. C. Syfert, it shows 
very sudden and remarkable changes of dip. The beds are twelve to 
sixteen inches in thickness, and have been apparently upheaved super- 
ficially and fractured, the opened crack being eighteen inches across, 
running north and south. This opening of the rock is not confined to 
those parts of the river valley which have been entirely denuded to the 
rock, but one such upheaval was seen several rods from the immediate 
channel. At this place the disturbance of the overlying Drift has ad- 
mitted a small creek in time of freshet, which so washed away the clay 
as to reveal the condition of the beds. A singular phenomenon, prob- 
ably ascribable to the same cause, was witnessed a few years ago on the 
land of William Turner, S. E. } section 32, in Pleasant township. It is 
generally known as “the earthquake” in the immediate neighborhood, 
and is said to have occurred during a thunder storm. Across the bottom 
land of Sugar Creek a singular and sudden upheaval of the surface took 
place, creating a bank running in a north-west and south-east direction, 
crossing the creek and entering or abutting on the Drift banks on either 
