MAHONING OOUNTY. 807 
in two benches; the lower (bituminous) twenty-four to thirty inches; 
upper (cannel) six to twelve inches. : 
6. Solomon Poland’s bank, Section 7, coal thirty inches; lower bench 
(bituminous) twenty-two inches; upper (cannel) eight inches. 
7. David Poland’s bank, Section 6, coal twenty-four to thirty inches, 
with six inches of cannel above; lower bench, bright and handsome, re- 
sembling the Leetonia coai. 
Coal is also reported opened on the land of J. McCullough, G. Myers, 
Sarah Hans, and J. W. Heindle. 
At Petersburg, Coal No. 4 is mined in several places; in some, a rather 
poor bituminous coal; in others, a good cannel. Two outcrops of coal 
are seen above it, but they have not been opened. The section of the 
hills here, though partially concealed, is as follows: 
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1. Slope, covered, with thin streak of coal near top.....-..-..--.-- 50 
2. Coal, heavy outcrop. 
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In this section, the strong outcrop of, the second coal is probably Coal 
No. 6, and perhaps the streak of carbonaceous matter at the top of the 
hill represents No. 7. Unfortunately, no limestone is visible here, and 
we get little to help us in the correlation of the Lowell section. If, as 
some have supposed, the Lowell Limestone is the equivalent of the white 
limestone, it should lie seventy or eighty feet above Coal No. 4, or just 
below the outcrop of Coal No.6; whereas, if its place is below Coal No. 4, 
it ‘should be found within twenty feet of that seam; but, so far as we 
could learn, nosuch limestone has been struck in any wells or borings in 
this vicinity. 
BEAVER. 
The surface of this township is generally rather level, and few out- 
crops of the strata are seen. Coal has been mined, however, in a4 great 
number of localities, but so far as we could learn, only one seam, No. 4, 
has been opened. The principal mines are as follows: In the south 
part, P. B. Yoder’s and J. Wilderson’s; in the east part, G. W. Heindel’s 
A. Yoder’s, and G. Mercer’s; in the north part, Azariah Paulin’s, David 
Sprankel’s, and George Coler’s. The character of the coal varies very 
much in these different openings; forexample, at A. Paulin’s it is twenty- 
eight to thirty-two inches thick, with eight or ten inches of cannel above. 
On the Sprankel farm, it is six feet thick, all cannel, of good quality, 
the average of several ‘proximate analyses, showing about 15 per cent. 
of ash. On the next farm, that of George Coler, it is all bituminous, 
and at the mine of Jeremiah Brown, already referred to, in the adjacent 
