106 COLUMBIANA COUNTY. 
or wanting, but without further explorations this question can not be 
satisfactorily decided. Borings made in the vicinity are reported to have 
passed through a workable seam of coal from forty to sixty feet below the 
surface. This is, perhaps, the Big Vein (No. 6), here showing the com- 
mencement of the rapid dip which carries it down to the level of the 
station at Salineville. 
The Sandy and Beaver Canal, now abandoned, runs from Lynchburg, 
past Hanover, on about the same level, to the high land which separates 
the head-waters of the Little Beaver and Sandy. The canal passes this 
divide through a tunnel which forms the summit level. The rock exca- 
vated in this tunnel is a massive light-colored sandstone, but the hills of 
the divide are mainly composed of the gray or greenish shales of the 
Barren Measures. The highest land between Hanover and Dungannon 
is, according to barometric observation, one hundred and seventy-five 
feet above Hanover Station, or seven hundred and fifteen feet above Lake 
Erie. East of Dungannon, the tributaries of the West Fork of Little 
Beaver cut down valleys where coal is mined in several places. The ex- 
posures are here very imperfect, and in the time at command it was 
impossible to determine the relations of the strata shown here with those 
exposed in other parts of the county. 
On the farms of Messrs. Copeland and Thompson, near the corners of 
Franklin, Hanover, Center, and Wayne townships, the following sections 
were obtained : 
SECTION ON FARM OF J. J. COPELAND. 
FT. IN. 
1. Shale, containing coal one foot thick near top, and black at bottom. 60 0 
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