714 GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 
obtained in boring for oil in Coshocton and Knox counties, where the 
position of the salt bearing rocks is very accurately determined, their 
base resting upon the chocolate shales which I regard as the bottom of 
the Waverly. Salt is now successfully manufactured at Salina on the 
Hocking Canal, and at McCuneville on the Shawnee branch of the 
‘Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, at both places the coal being mined for the 
evaporation of the salt. The waste slack coal should be used for this: 
purpose. It affords a power costing practically nothing with which to 
drill the wells, pump the brine and concentrate it; and when it is thus 
utilized, the cost of manufacture will be reduced to a minimum, and the. 
production limited only by the amount of consumption within the terri- 
tory to which it can be carried by the ordinary channels of communica- 
tion. 
GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS. 
The larger tributaries of Sunday Creek, Snow Fork, and Monday Creek, 
are prominent streams affording a never failing supply of water for the 
use of smelting furnaces. | 
The Hocking Valley Railroad follows the Hocking River through the 
southern part of this territory, with a branch from Logan to Straitsville, 
and is in the control of men who will carry branches into all the villages 
occupied by mining or manufacturing establishments. Arrangements 
are already made for branches up the Sunday Creek and Snow Fork, and 
it is also proposed to construct another up the valley of Monday Creek. 
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company has a branch from: Newark 
to Shawnee, which it is proposed to continue further into the field. The 
Atlantic and Lake Erie road is projected from Pomeroy to Toledo, passing 
through the valley of Sunday Creek, on which much work is already 
done, and the road opened for business from New Lexington on the Mus- 
kingum Valley road to Moxahala. The Cleveland, Mt. Vernon and 
Columbus Railroad Company have made good progress toward the ex- 
tension of their road from the south part of Holmes through Coshocton 
to connect with the Muskingum Valley road, and by a branch from the 
latter at Cluny Station, to extend it into the center of this coal field. 
These roads and their branches will bring all this territory into ready 
connection with all the great lines of railroads in the State. 
All these advantages, coupled with the fact that these lands are in the 
center of a rich and populous agricultural territory, render the future 
prosperity of this region a certainty. There is no place in the United 
States, and probably not in any other country, where iron can be manu- 
factured more cheaply than here, and very few where the manufactured 
products of the iron can be more cheaply distributed to the points of con- 
