TUSCARAWAS COUNTY. 61 
Coal No. 4 is the seam that was formerly worked by Mr. J. A. Saxton, 
near Sandyville, and this, with the overlying limestone, is traceable 
from that point northward up the valley of the Nimishillin to Canton 
and Greentown, and up the valley of the Sandy, as far as Oneida. Going 
south from Sandyville the limestone and Coal No. 4 are seen at Zoar, 
about fifty feet above the river, the coal thin, the limestone, as usual, 
from three to four feet thick. 
At Mineral Point, Coal No. 4 lies below the railroad, and at Zoar Sta- 
tion about fifty feet above. At Canal Dover the limestone crops out on 
the hillside, between the Sugar Creek salt well and the mouth of the 
rine in Coal No. 5, which supplies the fuel for the salt works. 
At New Philadelphia the limestone may be seen all along the base of 
the hills east of the valley, but the coal is either thin or absent. In the 
road from New Philadelphia to the Goshen salt well, it exhibits the 
phase which is seen at Newcastle, Coshocton county, and at Flint Ridge, 
Licking county—that is, it becomes much thicker than usual, and more 
shaly, breaking up into thin plates, which, by exposure, lose their blue 
color, and become brown or yellow. Here, as elsewhere, it contains many 
fossil shells, among which may be mentioned Chonetes mesoloba, Spirifer 
cameratus, Productus semireticulatus, Athyris subtilita, Sprrifer lineatus, ete. 
In the valley of the Conotton, Coal No. 4 is found outcropping at the 
base of the hills, all the way from Scott’s Mills to New Cumberland 
- At Trenton it lies some twenty feet above the railroad, and at Patter- 
son’s ore-shoot, three miles below Port Washington, twenty feet above 
the canal. In tracing it further south, 1t is found continuously through 
Coshocton and Licking counties, overlying the cannel, near Warsaw, in 
Coshocton, and at Flint Ridge, in Licking. This is also the Putnam 
Hill limestone of Zanesville, and it reaches thence southward to the Ohio. 
The coal beneath this limestone is exceedingly variable in thickness 
and quality. At Greentown, on the north line of Stark county, it is 
four to five feet thick, bituminous and good; at Canton four feet thick, 
of fair quality, but rather slaty, and contains considerable sulphur. 
At Browning’s Mills, six miles below, on the Nimishillen, it is six feet 
in thickness, very slaty, containing much sulphur, and is partly an im- 
pure cannel. At Sandyville, where mined by Mr. Saxton, it varies in 
thickness from two to four feet, and is of medium quality. 
At Kelley’s Point, on the Tuscarawas Branch Railroad, it is two and a 
half feet thick, a good cannel; near Mineral Point, one and a half to two 
feet thick, bituminous; in the valley of the Conotton, three miles above 
its mouth, five feet thick, slaty and worthless; at Lock 17, one foot in 
_ thickness. In the Dennison well it is reported to be five and a half feet 
thick ; in the Urichsville well, seven feet. In the valley of the Killbuck 
