O04. GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 
always found resting upon our Cuyahoga shales) to leave room for any 
hope of such a desirable discovery. 
We have many newspaper reports of the finding of coal far below this 
horizon, as in the deep well drilled in Mansfield, where the surface rock 
is three hundred feet or more below the lowest coal. So in this county 
in a well sunk for oil near Apple Creek, where the ravines cut through 
the coal measures, a coal seven feet thick was reported as disclosed seventy 
feet from the surface. A reliable person, who lived in the place at the 
time the well was sunk, informed me that he burned the coal, and that 
there was no possible doubt as to its character and excellent quality. 
The investigation was followed up until the fact was learned that the 
coal was obtained in driving the pipe, which was carried down toa depth 
of one hundred and twelve feet, and abandoned without striking rock. 
It was simply the occurrence, by no means unusual, of detached frag- 
ments of coal buried in the Drift, and of no significance with reference 
to the true horizon of any of the coals. 
Coal No. 7 I have found only in the top of the hill at Mt. Katon with- 
out cover, where it was formerly mined toa small extent by drifting, and 
most of it apparently taken out. The hills in other parts of the county 
are not high enough to catch it. 
Coal No. 6 is mined one-half mile east of Mt. Haton, at George Mat- 
thews’s bank, where it is two feet three inches thick, roof of black shale 
one to two feet thick, containing many shells and capped with sandy 
shale. The coal is of the ordinary type of No. 6, black, lustrous and 
caking, but containing considerable sulphur. It is from eighteen to 
twenty feet below No. 7, and its outcrop can be seen on all sides of this 
hill, and at a few other elevated points in the neighborhood. 
It is also present in the hills north of Fredericksburgh, on the north line 
of the county. The following section, taken here, illustrates the dimin- 
ished intervals between the coals mentioned above: 
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Coarse Orownisandstone pha homin ow ene eee seen eerie neater 25 0 
iBlackishale with shells 22g une ie Vs eWay Sune Gh latin acter sani ey eee nie Senate @) 
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Mire claiyiyee sis eye Sars afk dls SE Oe A A ap 3 0 
Black-shale isc ce ecole che iso cere ee aR Oe ag a ee 27 0 
Grayilimestone esse So oe oc se PENS er atl ge a aa 2 0 
COLE REA in SE SON ULE Ug ee ee nt Tne rE Uy ape at 2 0 
Pes Clay vue ligk ee Nee ei ts ek ANA ULAR 8 et a RR OO) aan 
Blacktshiale: ( 32 tickets Se Uigk io 21) ARN A Skeets AAV ath RE Rea ie rea OW 18 0 
Bluelimestone wes Ss sete eet Ae Rant er VR ae pe gia Ue A Ay 2 0 
Coats ie eel ek ie ci ails ie Ae a Ll MeL I RDO Ue 2 0 
EPO CVV Me eto Se aia ae fra i Alin Ne a ML DA UR PG 3 0 
PlOTTUSINOUS SAILS ware sive eis oie case SS eect eC eer eee aa aaa aor Re Pe On 2 
