192 GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 
feet, and at Malvern it is about the same. At these localities it affords a 
readily burning coal, which is very sulphurous. 
In Rose township it was at one time mined by the Taare Com- 
pany, on whose property, near Magnolia, it is three and one-half feet 
thick. It is now worked at a locality about two miles south-east from 
that village, showing about three and one-half feet of very fair coal. It 
is interesting chiefly because it overlies the compact fire-clay so exten- 
sively used at Mineral Point and other localities along the Tuscarawas 
Branch of the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad. The only locality in 
Xose township where this was taken out, where these examinations were 
made, was on the farm of Mr. Wm. Beattie, about one mile south-east 
from Magnolia. As at that time careful search was making at every 
exposure of Coal No. 5, it is highly probable that other openings are now 
inoperation. This compact clay is very local in distribution, and deposits 
are quite uncertain in extent, as the hard clay often passes abruptly into 
the plastic variety. On the Beattie farm the clay is compact, on the 
Trumbull Company’s property it is plastic, while on a farm about half a 
mile west from the last it is again compact. The section exposed on the 
Beattie farm is as follows: 
DNs 
LE COOLS OB acto moRiBOOSOC MEAS BDODOGd DUG UOC Co US O6a5 066506 habEboigoooud 3 G 
Ot MN eae BS eG HS ASO OMA CHORD obo HNOBOe FOU BBO GH OdOoHOd Good OSbue Yl 
3. Clay, compact ..---..----------------------+ +--+ +++ --+ ee +--+ eee G 
Ay. COM s6dcc0 050066 oseosd 860000 000500 000009 So0000 ba0050 500500 0000006 De 426 
5. Clay, plastic ..---.-----------.-+---= --------- Bars Sire athe Nee ee BRB OD 
Coal No. 4 here consists of one foot of alternating shale and coal, rest- 
ing on two and one-half feet of fair coal. In a well sunk on the other 
side of the hill it is three and one-half feet thick, and good throughout. 
The fire-clay, No. 3, is quite dark near the top, but below is beautifully 
mottled. At the outcrop a layer of large nodules of iron ore and clay, 
two feet thick, seemed likely to cause much loss, but it ended abruptly 
at the distance of five feet in the entry. At the time these notes were 
made the work was going forward energetically, and Mr. Reis, the lessee, 
had his preparations well advanced for the erection of brick-works on the 
spot. Fifteen cubic feet of the rock make a ton, and the cost of mining 
is seventy-five cents. The thin coal below the fire-clay is very poor in 
quality, and is evidently local, as it was seen at no other exposure. 
Specimens of this clay were forwarded to Dr. Wormley for analysis, with 
the following results: 
Water .----- --- ene wwe ee nn nn ce te ne ee met eee nee eee 9,90 
ROTOR) 3556 boo cdanSs Sou oae dosabe 6 600506 GnSa dod5 050060 BODb ONoSs6 HOOK EdaS 48.90 
39.79 
Alumina ..- 2. eee ene ne te mt mre ee ne weet tee eee ne eee 
