WAYNE COUNTY. 53% 
certain that basins do not exist in which it may yet be found of workable 
thickness. The abrasion of coal shales in some of the outcrops, the rip- 
ple-marked sandstones, and plain channels of erosion formed after the dep- 
osition of the coal, are not favorable indications. The cut in the rail- 
road, north of Marshallville, in the sandstone above Coal No. 1, is a very 
interesting example of erosion. On the same horizon the cut exposes, 
in succession, the following alternation of shale and sandstone: Sand- 
stone, 161 feet, shale, 493 feet ; sandstone, 489 feet, shale, 342 feet; sand- 
stone, 195 feet, shale, 285 feet; sandstone, 480 feet, shale, 487 feet; the 
shale occupying excavated channels bearing north-west and south-east ins 
the sandstone. The following is a section of part of this cut: 
A A, sandstone. B B, shale, with nodules of iron ore near top, and angular debris of 
sandstone near bottem of cut, on the sandstone slope... The railroad track 1s at the bottom 
of the section, the cut not being deep enough to disclose the sandstone below the shale.. 
Near Fairview Station, east of Orrville, Coal No. 1 has an unusuak 
thickness, and is a typical block coal, equal to the best in the Mahoning 
Valley. The following is a section of the coal and overlying rocks at. 
J.J. Burton’s shaft: 
FT. IN 
Grane eee rn o setore oat ycisiactee cistc win ra wiae'eni ocinja' brain slcieiblele we bua eus 13 0 
IBIIAOK SOOO C EE co OOGR BORE BOO COE CERISE ERA Ear nea rs Amer sees eietrnt a ea iy ed 40 0 
pines ora in edesand stor Cmte cemtce ae otiectice cise mee claclanisicie aie cece cic 10 0 
Sate kasi ey marae netic pea Ga yaa ee Fee AGL eI re IE Ts SER eR a 0 3to4 
COON Ses Bi Go oe i SES ae NN Ma i ae Sem 5 to 7 0 
The coal is in one bench, a dry, open-burning block coal of great excel- 
lence. The property embraces one hundred and sixy acres in fee, and three 
hundred and twenty acres of leased land. Before the depression in coal 
the mine was producing one hundred and twenty tons per day, which. 
commanded three dollars per ton, delivered on the cars at the mine.. 
This production could be largely increased, but it is not probable that. 
the price of the coal will soon reach the old figures. 
At Frank Baker’s slope, north of Fairview, the coal varies from three 
feet to four feet two inches, and is of equally good quality, but the terri- 
tory containing it, in this direction, is apparently small, and the known 
coal was, at the time of my visit, nearly exhausted. 
About half a mile north of Fairview is another opening in this seam, 
where it is four feet thick in one bench—an excellent dry-burning coal,, 
