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ooal constitutes a great source of wealth to the county, and is the main- 
spring of many industries; but the fact should be recognized that this is 
a capital which is daily being exhausted, and, when exhausted, can 
never be reproduced. All the coal basins now known about Massillon 
will be worked out within a generation, and although new discoveries 
will certainly be made, and much territory will become productive where 
the coal is not now supposed to exist, still the value of the coal is so great, 
and the consumption of it so rapidly increasing, that it is to be feared 
not many years will elapse before the supply from this region will be ex- 
hausted. 
Among the most encouraging results of recent explorations about Mas- 
sillon is the discovery of an important basin of coal two miles south of 
the town, on the west side of the river. How large an area in this vicin- 
ity is underlain by coal of workable thickness is not yet known, but 
every thing indicates that this is one of the most important basins known 
in the region. | 
I give below the register of two of the several holes bored for Beatty, 
Uhlendorff & Burk: 
WELL No. 1 (BEGUN 111 FEET ABOVE THE RIVER). 
ET IN: 
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, Blane) egIneAN SL See oer ee eI arg es gn e l 3G 
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