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the coal mines of Leggett, on the east, and Page, on the west side of the 
same hill, are opened in this seam. In Leggett’s mine the coal is from 
four feet ten inches to five and a half feet thick, free from slate and 
pyrites, and remarkably sound, so that it may be extracted in cubical 
blocks of large size. Coal No. 6 is also met with at the school-house two 
and a half miles south-west of Rockford, three and a half feet thick, and 
at Raynsberger’s, on the Leesburg road, near the county line, four feet 
thick. : 
South of Newcomerstown this is the only coal bed of importance met 
with to the county line. It is first seen at the red school-house, just 
south of the river, at one hundred and thirty-five feet above the railroad, 
and is only two and a half feet thick. | 
At the Borth settlement, in Oxford township, and along the valley of 
Bird’s Run, there are numerous openings on this seam, which ranges 
from three and a half to three feet ten inches in thickness. 
In the valley of the Stillwater, south of Ubrichsville, as the strata dip 
toward the south-east, Coal No. 6 soon passes beneath the surface and 
disappears. ; | 
At Newport it lies just above the water level, and was worked many 
years ago, but contained so much sulphur as to be almost valueless as a 
fuel, and copperas was made from the superabundant pyrites found in it. 
Going still further south, it is last heard of at Freeport, where it was 
struck in a boring forty feet below the bottom lands of the Stillwater. 
At Uhrichsville, Coal No. 6 has been mined quite extensively for sev- 
eral years by Mr. S. W. Andreas. The coal at his mine, which is on the 
west side of town, lies forty-five feet above the railroad. It is similar in 
character to that of Dennison, being four feet thick, with a parting 
eighteen inches above the bottom. Mr. Andreas has also several ovens, 
in which he cokes the small coal from his mine, supplying a fairly good 
article to manufacturers and for shipment westward. , 
At Lock 17, Coal No. 6 lies one hundred feet above the railroad, and is 
the only bed worked here; it is three and a half to four feet thick. At 
a bluff on the canal, about a mile east of the town, a fine section is ex- 
posed of the strata, from forty feet above Coal No. 6 down to twelve feet 
below the Putnam Hill limestone. Twenty feet below No. 6 is a coal 
seam two feet in thickness (No. 5), and seventy feet lower is the upper 
limestone, one and a half feet thick, underlain by one foot of coal. The 
_Zoar limestone is said to be found in the bed of the river, and to have a 
thin stratum of cannel under it. 
At Trenton and Newcastle, Coal No. 6 has been worked for many years, 
and the product sent by canal to Cleveland. It has there established the 
