190 GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 
The coal is compact and must be blasted. It is apparently very clean, 
and is regarded as among the best for blacksmiths’ use. 
In Orange township the bed shows the following section at Mr. John 
Pearch’s bank: 
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No. 1 is the best coal, containing little pyrites and coming out in clean 
blocks; No. 8 is quite poor, containing much nodular pyrites; No. 5 is 
brittle, and in mining is converted into slack; No. 7 is fair, and No. 9 is 
rather poor. This coal is hard, requiring the blast, cakes readily on the 
fire, yields a compact coke, and gives off intense heat in burning. On 
the north branch of Myers’s Creek the coal is mined by Mr. Amos Pres- 
ton, at whose bank it is separated into three benches by thin persistent 
partings. The top bench is eighteen inches thick and yields a brittle 
coal, which burns well but is of inferior quality. The middle bench, 
thirty-one inches, is a good coal for domestic use. The lower bench, 
eight inches, is slaty, burning moderately well, but leaving a bulky ash. 
The proportion of ash is very great throughout. Nodules of pyrites are 
of frequent occurrence. As Smith’s mill, where this bed first appears in 
the bed of. the stream, it is but thirty-five feet below Coal No. 7. 
In Brown township we find this coal mined by Mr. R. B. Hamilton, 
not far from Waynesburg, at whose bank the following section is ex- 
posed : 
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Ant (COM Se Snes oes REE aR UCI EES ta te ee 1 8 
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Meg EAC - CLAY n/o:cie sare cic ete sia: eam arecete aibecy ic) oes antler yee open py Se ee 10 0 
The top coal is slaty, almost a bone coal, and is poorest next the roof. 
The rest of the bed yields good coal, very pure and much prized by black- 
smiths. Near the middle is a somewhat persistent layer of mineral char- 
