HOCKING VALLEY. 695 
There is a large amount of good coal in this valley at such an elevation 
above drainage as to be mined with facility, entries on the west side run- 
ning up the dip: but there are localities where the coal is of little value, 
and the extent of these can be determined only by explorations on the 
horizon of the coal. Westward and southward the shales appear in their 
normal position above the coal. In the neighborhood of Bessemer, the 
coal is six to ten feet thick, with shale above, and of good quality. In 
the north-west quarter of section 17, on middle branch of Snow Fork, 
the coal is five feet ten inches thick, of good quality; but east of this an 
outcrop was observed, only one and a half feet thick, of sulphury coal, 
with heavy sand-rock above. Passing over the hills from this point 
toward Carbon Hill, the shales come in above the coal, which assumes 
its normal thickness and character. On the east part of fraction 32 an 
outcrop shows ten feet of coal, whose thickness below the upper parting 
is eight and a half feet. 
At a new entry driven near Carbon Hill, the following section is 
shown: 
FT. IN 
OLDE DS Se oe ns hy reste eR cp ere a aN Rye OR 3 1 
RTC eee eee ey eta ore Uae are os esen, ra tN Hae 7S na SU os Se slemtahel 1ac 2to3 
0 ae eye cee Nap nee Net DOR MMV ROAM A MG ee obs te sia alatn seh ig ade atl 2 44 
Shr eT eres eer ate sre cla ea irar centage aT nar eR ete a aiavcsy Eta LS LIS SD ORS sla ye 1 
Caylee rer orien erere are earn en aatd enn Ean teint toler, SSS RYE adscbaial a ulale stare alarsie 1 10 
Showing an increased thickness of the middle bench, and a thinning 
down of the upper bench, compared with the Straitsville entries. The 
coal, in its characteristics, does not differ materially from that at Straits- 
ville. } 3 
“On approaching the Hocking River the coal becomes thinner, mainly 
by a reduction of the upper bench, the coal at W. B. Brooks’s bank 
showing the following section: 
FT. IN 
(CHA CE BSS oS OSES tesa cin Ey Sits COANE pe ee i ch oo Pg 2 ae 
DTG paper ear rere reo went cr as cSU CENA La IC Pues ih cet Sy Sk Se oS alaepe IS 3to4 
COMFY et Lee oe ak Sic 0s TEAC BC age Rc a SP 2 4 
DOW EY StS eae AN ele UT nA i i Lp NOS I eT Ca 1 
(BO SENG Sr Glee i a 6 A ar gre ag a er ANU UD aT 1 2 
FIL tie eee cee ato ite ace ty, ais. C tale rp eee arin en RR 1 ASS a wit) @ 4 
And at Peter Hayden’s bank the following: 
FT, IN 
COME SEE ABE AE Rete ci II NR MRR NT i PAR a OR ALN a 2 Atod 
POINDIIG). 6 See Ste sie AN ed aA ag 2 0 a OY 3 to 4 
Chie ae UST RSI GON SAT reer uh Signo i atatss 
SSUATHIO) es Ge tenet aR PR eT ok a eo 1to2 
509 OC OCIS Te OT ee ae ETL elon ALS a DEL 7 AP 1 3 
