HOCKING VALLEY. 697 
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Coal of excellent quality. . 
At John Collins’s bank, Section 22, York township: 
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Showing a marked thinning out of the lower bench (and that at the 
commencement of the deposition this was near the western margin of the 
marsh), a slightly diminished thickness of the middle bench, and an in- 
creased thickness of upper bench. 
At the Laurel Hill mine, two and a half miles south-west of Nelson- 
ville, the coal is six feet thick in three benches. At Lick Run mine it 
is also six feet thick, of good quality, and presents its ordinary charac- 
teristics, but terminates abruptly at the west, the horizon of the coal 
being occupied by a massive sandstone. On Section 8, Starr township, 
it is reported to be six feet thick. About eight miles south-west of Nelson- 
ville, near the south line of Starr township, five feet of the coal is exposed 
on the bank of a small stream. About four feet of this is good coal, with 
more sulphur than usual, and the upper bench quite shaly. 
At the mouth of Meeker’s Run, Section 10, York township, the section 
of the coal is— 
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There is a good deal of controversy as to the identity of the coal 
mined at Carbondale, in the north-west corner of Waterloo township, but 
following down the valley from an outcrop near the south line of Starr, 
toward the coal road leading to Carbondale, the Great Vein coal is seen 
to pass below the surface, and another coal, fifty feet higher up, with a 
sand-rock a little above it, approaches the bottom of the valley. This 
sand-rock, and rude openings into the coal below, can be traced continu- 
ously around the hill to the east, and up the Coal Railroad to Carbondale, 
