BELMONT COUNTY. Piel 
One hundred yards away it is six feet thick. 
Goshen Township.—Little of this township lies north of the railroad, but 
“it is interesting as affording a good exhibition of Coal No. 10 fully devel- 
oped, as well as showing the highest coal seen north of the railroad. Coal 
No. 18 appears in the summit cut of the railroad and at several other 
points, and No. 12 was struck in a well seventy feet below No. 13 by Mr. 
_H. Rogers, on the Morristown road. In section 29 Mr. Harris has an 
opening into No. 10, which shows as follows: 
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The coal is evidently uncertain in thickness; for, near the outcrop, a 
horseback from below cuts out twenty-two inches. The coal is fair in 
quality, with little pyrites, but the roof-coal is poor and slaty and white, 
with copperas at the exposure. Ata short distance from his bank, Mr. 
Harris finds the bed about two feet below the surface, and is working it 
by stripping. 
At Badgersburg, in section 24, the coal is extensively worked to supply 
the village of Belmont. Mr. John Walker’s bank gives the following 
section : 
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Mr. Samuel Henkle’s opening, directly opposite, shows in the entry 
shale and clay one foot eight inches, coal five feet to five feet six inches, 
fire-clay one foot three inches, the roof-coal not being exposed. The dif- 
ference in the thickness is marked, those on the west side of the road re- 
sembling Mr. Walker’s, and those on the east Mr. Henkle’s. The value 
of all the banks is impaired, more or less, by clay horsebacks, but they 
are not extensive. Several clay seams cut the bed at an angle of 60°, 
and run north-east and south-west, having a thickness varying from six 
to eighteen inches. The pyrites streaks are few, and are found near the 
top. Nodules occur occasionally, but are easily separated. 
