564 GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 
Bellair, with transportation by river and railroad, and an ample sup- 
ply of cheap fuel, must become at no distant day an important center of 
manufactures. The coal mines are generally successful, and belong to 
the following proprietors: Jacob Hetherington and Sons, Charles Henry, 
Wm. Kelly, Peter Schrum, Wm. G. Barnard, and the Pittsburgh Coal 
Works. 
MEAD TOWNSHIP. 
This township is situated on the Ohio River, south of Pultney. It has 
an extensive river frontage, and, consequently, contains a large area of 
rich bottom land. The hills are full of limestone, and the soil is gener- 
ally good. The township is chiefly drained by Weegee Creek, Big Run, 
and Pipe Creek, all small tributaries of the Ohio. The hills are high, 
and often steep. The Bellair seam of coal underlies the whole township, 
doubtless forming one continuous sheet of coal proximately six feet 
thick. From Pultney township the seam gradually dips, and near the 
mouth of Weegee Creek it is reported to be found in the bed of the river 
at low water. 
The coal is mined at several points—at the Weegee mines, at a point 
nearly opposite Moundsville, and near the mouth of Pike Oreck, etc. 
The coal may at all points be reached by slope or shaft of moderate 
depth. The coal every where presents the usual. appearance of the 
typical Wheeling coal. The location directly upon the Ohio River, the 
advantage that can be taken of the dip of the seam for easy drainage of 
the mines, and the thickness and general regularity of the seam, and 
consequent cheapness of mining, all unite to indicate that in the future 
this must be a coal field of much importance. 
Coal has been extensively taken from the Weegee mines, in section 32, 
by P. Schaefer & Co. Here the seam is reached by a slope at the base of 
the river hill. The coal is sold to steamboats at the landing, and also 
shipped in barges to markets on the river below. The Empire Coal 
Company, Smith & Watson, and Lockwood, Burley & Co., are all engaged 
in mining coal in this township. 
A careful section was taken of the strata in the hill adjacent to the 
river, about a mile below the Weegee mines, as follows: 
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