104. COLUMBIANA COUNTY. 
Hanover and Vicinity.—T he north-western portion of Columbiana county, 
including the townships of Knox, Butler, West, and Hanover, is all high 
land, and, as has been mentioned, this forms a portion of the divide be- 
tween the waters of the Ohio and those of Lake Erie. The altitude of 
the valley is generally more than five hundred feet above the Lake, while 
the hills rise from one hundred to two hundred feet above this level. 
Notwithstanding its general elevation, this is the only portion of the 
county in which any deposits of Drift occur. At and north of Hanover? 
the surface is in many places strewn with bowlders of northern origin, 
and heavy beds of sand and gravel, and sometimes of clay, cover the un- 
derlying rocks. The Drift coating is, however, generally thin and irregu- 
lar, and the materials which compose it are coarse. 
Coal No. 6 is the seam which is generally mined in this part of the 
county. This may be traced through from Paris and Mapleton, in Stark 
county, to New Franklin, near which place it is well shown at Courtney’s 
mine. Here the coal is five feet ten inches in thickness, soft, and black, 
with considerable sulphur. It has a slate parting eighteen inches above 
the bottom, and lies at an altitude of five hundred and seventy-five feet 
above Lake Hrie. 
Crossing the railroad at Moultrie, Coal No. 6 is first opened in Colum- 
biana county at New Chambersburg, in the mine of Jacob Milburn. 
Here it lies at about the same level as at New Franklin, namely, seventy- 
five feet above the railroad at Moultrie. The coal is six feet thick, rather 
soft, but bright, black, and handsome, containing a moderate amount of 
sulphur. A thin parting of shale lies from twelve to eighteen inches 
above the bottom. The roof is gray shale, containing a great number of 
impressions of fossil plants. Below it is fire-clay and an impure lime- 
stone. 
From the examination which I have had made of the Chambersburg 
coal, I infer that it would make excellent coke; and from its proximity . 
to the railroad, if this should prove true, it would have great value as a - 
source of supply of fuel to the Cleveland furnaces. 
In the interval between New Chambersburg and Rochester, the hills 
rise to the height of from six hundred and seventy-five to six hundred 
and ninety feet above the Lake, and the surface is generally covered with 
Drift. Large bowlders of cherty limestone were seen on the hillsides at 
a higher level than Coal No. 6, but were not traced to their source. Coal 
No. 6 is opened half a mile east of Chambersburg, is there five feet in 
thickness, and is said to be found in all the valleys of the vicinity. At. 
Rochester it is mined chiefly by William Somerville. At his opening 
the coal lies fifty feet above Rochester Station, is four and a half feet 
