COSHOCTON COUNTY. y 5713 
blossom” of coal beneath it. Chert in considerable quantity is often 
associated with it. At one place the blue limestone appears to be seven 
or eight feet thick. Immediately over it is a large bed of chert, and about 
forty feet higher up the blossom of coal, but no appearance of the gray 
limestone. 
In the south-east corner of Mill Creek, and. in the adjoining lands in 
the three townships of Keene, White Hyes, and Crawford, are several coal 
banks, all in Coal No. 6, which is recognized, both by its position (about 
one hundred feet above the grey limestone) and by its peculiar purplish 
ash. The outcrop of other coal beds is seen at several places on these lands 
but the only bed worked is No. 6. The coal is mined only in the winter 
season, and chiefly on the farms of A. Overholts, in Mill Creek; of Thos. 
Davis, adjoining this, in Keene; of Scott, Funk, Boyd, and Miller, in 
White Eyes; and of Boyd, Graham, and Swigert, in Crawford. The bed 
where it was accessible was found varying from two feet ten inches, at 
Davyis’s and at Overholts’s, to four feet three inches thick at Scott’s; but 
the openings being all deserted, nothing could be determined as to the 
quality of the coal. Some pyrites is seen, one seam of it an inch thick 
near the floor, but the quantity is small. As this group of mines sup- 
plies the demand of a large portion of the four townships, the coal is, 
without doubt, the best the country affords. It is, moreover, obtained 
exclusively from the bed well known to be the most important one in 
the county. The summit level in this vicinity is about one hundred 
feet above the plane of the coal bed; and immediately over the coal is a © 
heavy bed of slaty sandstone, apparently not under thirty-five feet thick. 
On Alexander Hanlon’s farm, half a mile north-west from Overholts’s, 
and also on Oliver Crawford’s, nearly a mile farther north, are seen a 
number of exposures of coal and limestone beds, which, taken together, 
give sections not readily explained in connection with the barometrical 
elevations obtained, and which were verified in part by repeating in 
going and returning. Coal No. 6 is opened on the south side of the 
hill, on Mr. Hanlon’s farm, about one hundred and twenty feet below its 
summit. A bed of limestone, about one foot six inches thick, shows 
itself sixty-five feet above the coal bed. To the south about one-quarter 
of a mile, and two hundred feet below the coal bed, is the top of a great 
bed of gray limestone, which, followed by successive steps down the bed 
of arun, presents a thickness of about twenty-five feet, as leveled with 
the hand-level. This may be somewhat exaggerated, as there is a strong 
dip to the south, and the exposure is down the run in this direction for 
nearly two hundred and fifty feet. Under the upper layers is seen some 
coal smut, and under the whole is a bed of coal, said to be two feet thick. 
