COSHOCTON COUNTY. 575 
this river, z. e. seven hundred and eighty above Lake Erie. The highest 
and only coal bed worked in the township is No. 4, under the gray lime- 
stone, and from seventy to eighty feet below the highest elevations. Coal 
No. 1 is seen on descending the steep hill from Neweastle to the 
Walhonding, in a bed only eighteen inches thick, beneath the great 
sandstone bed at the base of the Coal Measures, which is here about 
thirty feet thick. Kidney ore, with a little shale from six inches to a 
foot thick, separate the coal from the sandstone. Tor fifty feet over the 
sandstone the strata are concealed, excepting that the smut of a very 
small coal seam is observed below the diggings for fire-clay, at the top of 
this interval. Over the fire-clay, which is three feet to four feet 
thick, is coal (seen here only in the outcrop), and over the coal a fossil- 
iferous gray limestone, two feet thick, overlaid with blue chert. The 
fire-clay is dug for the supply of Butler’s pottery, at Newcastle. There 
is also another small pottery there owned by: Mr. Lewis. 
Though the gray limestone is met with almost every where near the 
summit of the township, the openings of the coal-bed it covers are not 
very numerous. One of these is James Smith’s, half a mile north-east 
from Newcastle. The limestone is here several feet thick, and forms the 
roof of the coal. This is two and a half feet thick, and much mixed 
with small seams of shale and pyrites. Though the coal is of inferior 
quality, it finds a sale for local uses, at ten cents a bushel. 
At Calvin Stott’s, one and one-half miles south-east from Newcastle, 
the coal is found two and one-half feet thick, under six feet of the gray 
limestone. It is here of better quality, compact and bright, with not so 
much sulphur. 
This bed may be opened in numerous places, and is the best the town- 
ship affords; yet the next higher bed may perhaps be found near the 
line of Jefferson, on the road to Jericho. 
The following section, from summit of hills at Newcastle to t he mout 
of Owl Creek, will show the general geological structure of this portion 
of the county: 
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