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one hundred and fifty feet lower in order to reach the horizon of the 
Briar Hill coal. By attaching a drill to the machinery now standing at 
the shaft, a boring could be made to the depth necessary to reach Coal 
No. 1 with very little expense, and it is to be hoped that this exploration 
will be attempted, since it might crown with success an enterprise upon 
which much capital has been expended, and which, up to the present: 
time, has not been remunerative. 
ANALYSES OF COALS, CLAYS, AND IRON ORES FROM COLUMBIANA COUNTY. 
Analyses of Coals. 
No. 1. Whan or No. 5 Coal, New Lisbon Coal Co., New Lisbon, sent by H. C. Bowman. 
2. No. 3 Coal, top of C. H. Andrews’s mine, above New Lisbon. 
3. ne middle ss G 
4, mS bottom ae 3G 
5. Strip Vein, Salineville. (No. 7.) 
6. Big Vein, oe lower bench. 
7 66 ; 66 top 66 
8. ‘Lowest seam (Roger’s), Salineville. 
9. Dyke’s coal, Middleton, top bench. 
10. e ef lower bench. 
11. Achor ceal, ae 
12. 66 be 
13. Coal from W. Nelson’s mine, New Lisbon. 
14, From William and John Burt’s mine, 3 ft. 2 in., north-east ) 
corner section 15, Middleton township. 
15. From Durk and Burson’s (No. 6), 4 ft. 4 in., section 15, Mid- 
dleton township. 
16. From Isaac Dyke’s (No. 6), 4 ft., section 22, Middleton town- Specimenssent 
ship. | by P.G. Brown, 
17. From Booth and Knight’s, Hartford, 3 ft., section 13, Mid- of East Pales- 
dleton township. tine. 
18. From Isaac Booth’s mine, 3 ft. 6 in., center section 15, Mid- 
dleton township. 
19. From Carbon Hill Coal Co. (No. 6), section 25, Unity town- 
ship. 
20. From Joy, Root & Burnett’s mine (No. 7), section 36, west 
half Unity township. J 
21. Cannel coal, P. Y. Brown, Achor. 
22. Upper coal, bottom bench, Salem Shaft. (No. 4.) 
93, 66 top 66 66 
24. Bottom coal, Salem Shaft. (No. 3.) 
25. J. Milburn, bottom bench, New Chambersburg. (No. 6.) 
26. 66 top 6 bc 66 
27. No. 6, Hanover Station, Ruder’s bank. (No. 6.) 
28. No.1, J. Hayes, below Salineville. 
