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COSHOCTON COUNTY. 571 
gray limestone is met with at one hundred and seventy feet higher ele- 
wation by barometer, with large coal outcrop immediately under it. Forty 
feet below this is another outcrop of coal, and about seventy-five feet be- 
low this, a third, and a sandstone bed beneath this, with no appearance 
of the Waverly to the bottom of the valley in which Bloomfield is 
situated. This group must, however, be very near the surface at this 
place. None of the outcrops, noticed above, appear to have been followed 
up to ascertain the character and thickness of the coals. This neighbor- 
hood is supplied with coal from beds in the adjacent township of Mill 
Creek. 
Recent explorations disclose the fact that in Bethlehem and Clark 
township, near the line separating them, Coal No. 7 is in places four feet 
thick, and of good quality. At Mr. Durr’s bank, it has this thick vein, 
is an open, burnin 
g, white ash coal, containing little visible sulphur, 
and gives better promise of being a good iron-making coal than any other 
examined in the county. A coal was disclosed in a well near Mr. 
Glover’s residence, without cover, showing eighteen inches of the bottom 
bench, which may be No. 7, or perhaps No. 7a. On the east half of the 
south-east quarter of section 23, Clark township, an outcrop of Coal No. 
6 is thirty-seven inches in thickness, with a heavy body of shale above 
it. Other outcrops in the neighborhood are reported to show three feet 
nine inches of coal. At the opening examined, the coal increased in 
thickness as the drift was carried into the hill. The coal is hard and 
black, with a brilliant, resinous luster, containing a large percentage of 
fixed carbon, and is evidently of excellent quality. At the Imley Bank, 
on section 25, Bethlehem township, the coal at an outcrop measures forty- 
three inches, and is reported to reach a thickness of four and one-half 
feet in some of the rooms worked. It is, by the barometer, twenty-five 
feet below the coal on section 23, Clark township, and about one-half a 
mile distant. This coalin Bethlehem township, I am.inclined to regard 
as below No. 6, and as that which is disclosed a little farther north, 
capped with the black limestone. The coal is of superior quality, and 
there is quite a large territory underlain by it. Coke made from it, in a 
smothered fire, in the open air, has been analyzed by Mr. E. R. Taylor, 
who reports the following composition: 
ANID SES SEA SESS SE ECS Ps NET ENE ES rears yo) eR aie Pn 5.02 
CATIONS VAT ONTO ME oe stances ce sae ete em eiolne'a wan cise oa wo ba cee mena a a 94.16 
PSE DMT cal ea Re Ra gS MA i lag UN 82 
At the place of these openings, all the rocks of the Coal Measures are 
in their positions, and the horizons of seven coals and two limestones 
