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MONROE COUNTY. 581 
In passing down Standing Stone Branch of Sunfish Creek from Woods- 
field we find traces of two or three seams of coal. The upper one has 
supplied a little coal from stripping. This is ninety feet below the level 
of the street in front of the Star House. Below this are traces of a so- 
called pottery seam, the underclay of which is used for making ware. 
This pottery seam must be one hundred and thirty to one hundred and - 
forty feet above the cement limestone. The place of the Evans coal is 
about seventy-five or eighty feet above the same limestone. There is on 
Standing Stone a heavy sandrock, forty feet thick, seen near the old pot- 
tery works. It is a firm and durable stone, but hard to work. Under- 
neath it are clays and shales, and a trace of a coal seam. 
On the land of A. Chrisner, section 14, on Standing Stone, fies miles 
east of Woodsfield, a geological section was taken, which is seen on Map 
XIII., No. 12. Here both the cement limestone and the Evans coal are 
seen. 
From Chrisner’s the descent of the water of Standing Stone and Sun- 
fish to section 25, in Adams township, a distance of four and a half miles 
in a straight line, is by aneroid barometer one hundred and seventeen 
feet. The cement limestone, which is in the bed of Standing Stone at 
Chrisner’s, is in section 25, Adams, thirty feet above the bed of Sunfish. 
This gives a dip of eighty-seven feet, or about nineteen feet per mile. 
Below the cement limestone comes in a heavy sandrock. | 
ADAMS TOWNSHIP. 
This township les east of Center, and directly upon Sunfish Creek, 
which passes through the middle of it from west to east. The geology of 
the township is simple, for the cement limestone of Center township, 
with the seam of coal about eighty feet above it, is easily traced all the 
way down the creek through the township. In some places it is thirty 
feet above the stream, while at Cameron it dips below it. In one place 
a well-defined arch is made by the limestone group. 
_A geological section was taken on the land of Jacob Weekly, section 25, 
which is given in Map XIIL., No. 18. 
| Here we have one of the very best developments of coal seen in the 
county. ‘There are four feet three inches of coal, exclusive of two thin 
clay partings, one two and a half inches, and the other one inch thick. 
Over the coal is a foot of slate, and over the slate sandstone. If there 
were a railroad up the valley of Sunfish to Woodsfield, this would be the 
source of supply for the region west. 
In the neighborhood of Cameron, and partly on the land of John 
Boughner, in section 13, a geological section was taken, which is given 
