108 COLUMBIANA COUNTY. 
At the quarry of Mathers & Zippernick, one mile above New Lisbon, 
the following section is exposed: 
FT, IN. 
i The white limestone io: Soe ee ah eee eat Core ra tara eeenra ep ec aan da 4 0 
QoS Wales eee ee Le a sts he I a ce agen pa A 6 0 
Sev | Coal Wocal)eois we 3e 8 ee eee Rik MEAD oe PARES e BRNO sist tReet it 0 
Aa Shale wes S55 Bool SO aN SN eT yh ay Aa eG en aE 30 0 
Bet Sandstone oasis cis koasd cet aN ci arsy ee ANAS VIG Sad a el LT) nt sc 50 0 
6.) Dark shale, vss ee ae Ne dA en nk ai a ee ea eae Eee eee 35 0 
Gs ARTOTL: OFC Sees ES SN Re CE ae eR a POR SRSA ES NR A 0 8 
Se CoalsNova ieee Seas mt REN VSL SOS 7 OR RI Re OM eg 0 8 
OF Dark shales enh. ts Se Cees CRN Dey OTA a i gst Sy ca TCU ac ats sO 30 0 
LO. :, (Mate SbON C3 i AS SASS Sk Rk Bae ae GN | Pap RR OP nd is mt Rae 3 0 
BES COaNOyed oo shes ae ae Saks Sate sere chee aye ean eRe PRMD ye sere hy Ost SRE AL Ped ete e 3 0 
12s cP ITOs Clay 2 ce ccc ais wie Aes iciciereisoees See el eS eee rc ae take ne earns 5-8 0 
The sandstone in the above section lies in massive layers, and varies 
in color from a very light gray, almost white, toa reddish brown. It is 
somewhat coarse in texture, but is an excellent building stone, and has 
supplied the material of which the new and handsome court house at 
New Lisbon has been constructed. | 
At New Lisbon quite an industry has sprung up in the manufacture of 
fire-brick and hydraulic cement. The materials employed in these man- 
ufactures are derived from two horizons—first, the clay beneath Coal No. 
3, which is used for fire-brick at the works above New Lisbon; second, 
the fire-clay and hydraulic limestone beneath Coal No. 5, in the vicinity 
of the town and below. Of these clays, the first has the ordinary plastic 
character; the second is non-plastic. Analyses of both these clays will 
be found in the tables at the end of this report—the plastic clay from the 
land of Mr. Robbins, the other from that of Daniel Harbaugh. The lat- 
ter belongs to the group of clays usually termed hard clays, such as the 
Mt. Savage, Hawes’s Clay, Mineral Point, Cambria county, Pennsylvania, 
the clay of Kier Brothers, Salina, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, 
the clay of Sciotoville and of Mineral Point, Ohio, and seems to occupy 
the precise geological position of the latter. All this class of clays are 
peculiarly adapted to the manufacture of fire-brick. The New Lisbon 
clay will compare favorably in quality with most of those cited above, 
and the brick made from it by the Eagle Fire-brick Company has an ex- 
cellent reputation. 
Salt is also to be reckoned among the products of this portion of Colum- 
biana county. Brine of fair strength has been obtained in several wells, 
but only one is now pumped—that at the Young America Salt Works, 
where from thirty to forty barrels of s&lt are produced per day. In 
former times a large amount of salt was made in the valley of the Little 
