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WESTFIELD TOWNSHIP. 
Westfield is the middle township in the southern tier. The northern 
part is clayey, but the southern part issandy. Over three hundred acres 
are covered with peat. There is a marl marsh of twenty acres, situated 
a mile and a half south of Leroy post-office. The marl is like a whitish 
clay with minute shells, and when burnt, the lime produced is a shade 
between the white and gray lime in the markets, but the strength 1s not 
nearly equal to that of ordinary lime. The houses of the town were 
formerly plastered with this marl lime. 
A mastodon or elephant skeleton was found in this township in the 
year 1832. Most of the bones were taken to Wooster at the time of their 
discovery. 
WADSWORTH TOWNSHIP. 
The Coal Measures cover three-fourths of Wadsworth township, which 
is the extreme south-easterly one in Medina county. By careful esti- 
mate it is thought that four hundred and fifty acres of workable coal ex- 
ist in this township. Drilling has been done very generally over the 
coal territory, and basins of excellent coal found and mapped, but insuf- 
ficient railroad facilities delay the general development of it. Three 
mines are now in full operation, the coal mined being of good quality, 
such as sells in Cleveland on an equality with the Willow Bank coal. 
The Wadsworth Coal Company began shipping coal in December, 1869. 
At the time of my visit (September, 1871) the daily production of this 
mine was one hundred and fifty tons, the estimated product for the year 
' being fully forty thousand tons. Highty miners are employed. The_ 
mine is in the south-east corner of the county. The coal is shipped by 
the Silver Creek Branch of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad. 
The Diamond Coal Works of Humphrey, Coleman & Co. are situated two 
miles south-east of the village of Wadsworth, the railroad running close 
to the mine, which was first opened in December, 1869. At the time of 
my survey daily shipments of seventy-five tons were being made. The 
yield of this mine in 1871 was stated to be thirteen thousand tons. Thirty 
miners were employed by this company. 
The Myers Coal Bank is in the north-western part of the township, three 
miles from the other mines. It has some peculiar features, but at the 
time of my visit it was filled with water, which the engines made slow 
progress in removing. A conglomerate of mixed pebbles, etc., imme- 
diately overlies the coal in this bank, but is somewhat broken and tilted 
up, showing great crevices. The coal also is broken up and shows many 
mud cracks; but is of good quality. It does not fall to dust by weather- 
ing, or run together when burning in a grate. The market for this coal 
