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In this boring the upper limestone coal was absent, or so thin as not to 
attract notice. The lower limestone was absent, as seems to be the case 
generally in this vicinity. The place of the lower coal was not reached | 
by from seventy-five to one hundred feet. Another hole was bored by 
Wm. Crannage, for Mr. Geo. Worthington, of Cleveland, without finding 
the coal sought for, but was almost certainly not carried to a sufficient 
depth. 
A well sunk near the quarries on Limestone Ridge is said to have 
passed through— 
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2. Shale, with plants and thin seams of coal....................----...-- 20 
3. Sandrock to bottom. 
Here it is evident that the place of the twenty-two-inch seam was not 
reached. 
Half a mile north-east of Drakesburgh a well showed the following 
strata : 
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In this well the excavation was probably begun below the limestone 
coals, but it did not descend to the level of the lower coal. 
At Hiram Center a yellow sandrock of the Coal Measures is quarried 
just back of the hotel. South of the Center, about one mile, shale crops 
out in the road below this sandrock. Near this point, but west and on 
higher ground, a well on Mr. Hopkins’s land gave— 
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Stratum No. 4 of this section was called by the drillers “ bottom 
rock ;’ but in this vicinity no proof should be accepted of having passed 
the place of the lower coal, except reaching the Conglomerate. 
In the south part of Hiram, coal has been taken from a natural out- 
crop twelve to.eighteen inches thick, and used by the blacksmiths. 
This is probably Coal No. 1. 
