WASHINGTON COUNTY. A491 
was established on Whipple’s Run, and some oil was made from this 
cannel coal.’ The coal was not very rich in oil, and the location was 
remote from market. Soon after, however, petroleum was obtained in 
great quantities from wells, and all the “coal-oil” distilleries, however 
well situated, were obliged to succumb. 
The “limestone coal”-dips pretty rapidly to the south, passing y hee 
the bed of Duck Creek, near Mr. Flanders’s, and is not seen again in the 
township. At the Cedar Narrows bridge the limestone group, with its 
coal seam, was passed through in boring for oil, at a reported distance 
of thirty feet below the surface. The group reappears in Lawrence town- 
ship, brought up in the Cow Run uplift, and in Newport in the Newell’s 
Run uplift. We should expect that the upper coal, the “sandstone seam” 
of Salem, would be found over a large area in this township. Its place 
is about eighty-five to ninety feet above the lower. Traces of it are seen, 
but it is generally very thin. It is found just north of the township 
line in Salem, where Mr. S. J. Hazen has mined it in the hill at the 
head of Pigeon Branch of Whipple’s Run. It should be found on the 
main run, it being very easy to ascertain its proper horizon from the 
limestone group and the lower coal. A stain of the coal of the seam _ 
was once observed in a bank of the railroad a mile or two below Cedar 
_ Narrows bridge. The exact point was not noted, but it was where the 
southern dip would naturally bring it. No coal was seen on the west 
side of Duck Creek except a trace of the “sandstone seam.” On the west 
side of the ridge, between Duck Creek and the Muskingum, on the land 
of B. F. Dyar, in Muskingum township, the coal of the Hobson seam was. 
found one hundred and fifteen feet above the bed of the Muskingum. The 
place of the seam is about one hundred feet above the “sandstone seam.” 
But this seam was not noticed on New Yeavr’s Run, on the eastern side of 
the ridge. At Stanleyville we find in the bank of the creek, below the 
mill, a considerable body of limestone ten or twelve feet thick, and a few 
feet over it a very thin seam of coal. Under the limestone is a consider- 
able body of red clay shale fifteen or twenty feet thick, with a layer of 
limestone eight inches thick near the middle. This red shale rests upon 
a heavy sandrock, which forms the bed of the run. It is difficult to de- 
termine the exact stratigraphical position of the Stanleyville limestone, 
because there is no certain geological horizon or datum line with which 
_to connect it. On the Muskingum River, at Mr. Dyar’s, in a north-west 
direction from Stanleyville, there is a body of somewhat similar limestone 
eight feet thick, sixty-five feet above the Muskingum River. If our de- 
terminations there are accurate, the place of this limestone is about fifty 
_ feet above the horizon of the ‘‘sandstone” seam of coal. The same lime- 
