MAHONING COUNTY. 811 
proximity of the basins in Milton and Palmyra, it would seem probable 
that some valuable deposits would be found here. 
SMITH. 
The surface of the township hes high enough to include Coal No. 4, 
and in some places No. 5; but it is nearly level, and the outcrops are 
few. Coal has been worked on the Laughlin farm, east of Alliance, 
and its northern outcrop. It is friable and contains much sulphur, is 
about three and one-half feet thick, and is probably Coal No. 4. On 
Rebecca Mathers’s farm the same coal is worked by an entrance from the 
southeast. The roof is shale, above which is the sand rock, but the hills 
are only thirty feet higher than the coal, and the cover is sufficient to 
protect it. On Jacob Wright’s farm, near the foregoing, the second 
seam of coal was formerly worked by a level near the bottom of the 
valley, through which the Pittsburg and Fort Wayne Railroad runs. 
This coal (No. 8a) is about three and one-half feet thick, but is reported 
to be of rather inferior quality. ; 
GOSHEN. 
Coal is worked in the northwest corner of the township on the land of 
C. Bowman. This is Coal No. 4, and of pretty good quality. The same 
seam stretches under the highlands of some other parts of the township, 
but has been little worked. It apparently deteriorates in quality toward 
the west. Coals No.3 and 3a may be reached by shafting at no great 
depth, but whether they are thin as in Ellsworth, or thicker and purer 
as at Alliance, can only be determined by exploration. So far as known, 
no boring has been done in this township for Coal No. 1, but as it has 
been reached at Limaville, a few miles west of the county line, there is a 
fair probability that some basins of it will be found here. 
GREEN. 
This township is one of the most productive in coal of any in the 
county, for Coal No. 4 here assumes its best phase, and is opened and 
worked at a great number of localities. The surface is quite varied, and 
the highest hills rise from seventy-five to one hundred feet above the 
horizon of No. 4, while the next seam below is cut in the bottom of 
the valley of the Little Beaver. The principal mining is done about 
New Albany. The coal (No. 4) is here from three to three and one-half 
feet thick, of very good quality, and is worked chiefly for the supply of 
the town of Salem, where it is preferred to coal of the same seam taken 
from the shaft in the village. The mines at New Albany are Stout’s, 
Wilson’s, Gates’s, Bonsall’s, Pow’s, Gordon’s, and Brooks’s. 
