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_ been worked for many years in connection with the overlying limestone ; 
the limestone burned for lime, the coal sold to the inhabitants of the vil- 
lage and surrounding country. The coal is here four to five feet in thick- 
ness, in two benches, is quite bright and handsome, and makes a good 
household and steam fuel. A specimen analyzed by Prof. Wormley had 
the following composition: 
VAY SWWETP = eG es oO TE Mea UN SG te reg on oat BD) 
Woolas @onome i TS Se eee oe eee er Ne Reins Bae are Shee a eK easy 38.75 
TEDISC CLEC Ch Ts OO Te Marapiey el i opel ata a a Sy ark eka Mi ceili ath MOE ik Lo ol SL EA 55.05 
AS, SoS SBS SERS SAB AR AE AEs taro Seeley ee Cea RNa, TAD RR eR. 2.95 
TD Ra nA esa bcd recy SUMS Seales taylie ly) JO 25) SNC STE eh oe a Ue Bae oe Sera PRE rR P 100.00 
SUOMI? «cose coded 0G00n6 BODONG doeogs 50960066 Be eae ea icie ote cans cite eet 1.73 
COIR® coooce d65606 666550 6008 Sob00n Baas poOEIbEGobE ddoosd 545500 6606 bou0 Compact. 
COODNGTE ONE ISVS is APG i IRE EI eee a eer a TL el White. 
Passing from Greentown to Canton, Coal No. 4 is seen at Berlin and 
again at Ruthroff’s mill. At Berlin the seam appears to be uniform in 
character, from three to four feet in thickness, and of moderate excel- 
lence. At Ruthroff’s mill it is divided into three benches, separated by 
fire-clay. They are said, however, to run together, and the coal to become 
much thinner back in the hill. 
Near Canton, and along down the valley of the Nimishillen, both the 
limestone seams are well shown. The upper is worked by Belden, Stof- 
fer, and others, east of the town. It is of good thickness (about four feet), 
but is, on the whole, rather slaty, and contains considerable sulphur. At 
Browning’s mill Coal No. 4 is six feet in thickness, but very slaty and 
sulphurous. Between this point and Sparta, Coal No. 3 is seen in the 
bed of the stream, rising and falling in waves above or below the water 
line. It is usually not more than from twelve to eighteen inches in 
thickness. 
Near Sandyville, Coal No. 4 has been worked by Mr. J. A. Saxton, and 
here exhibits its usual variableness. Between the Nimishillen and Tus- 
carawas, in Pike and Bethlehem townships, the limestone coals are both 
opened in a great number of localities, and are quite extensively mined 
for local use. The coal which they here furnish is of fair quality, and 
forms an important element in the resources of this section of the county. 
In the valley of the Sandy, Coal No. 4 lies near the level of the stream— 
sometimes above, sometimes below—all the way to Minerva. At Kelly’s 
Point it lies just above the railroad, is a cannel of good quality, two and 
a half feet in thickness. At the Trumbull Company’s mines, near Mag- 
nolia, it lies below the surface of the valley, but has been reached in a 
shaft and in numerous borings,three and a half to five feet thick, in two 
