COSHOCTON COUNTY, 579 
reported in the south-east corner, and, also, about two miles east from 
Keene Center, on the land of A. Boyd. These two are supposed to be in 
Coal Bed No. 6 Keene Center, though on very high ground, does not, 
apparently, quite reach up to the plane of Coal No. 6; and no openings 
are made in the lower beds. To the north of the town, the strata are 
well exposed by the side of the road, from the top of the hill down into 
the valley of Mill Creek, presenting the following section: Near the 
top, at the town, slaty sandstone ; shales, mostly olive-colored, forty feet ; 
limestone (gray 7), coal-smut, and fire-clay, underlaid by olive shales, sixty 
feet; several layers of kidney iron-ore, ten feet above the bottom of the 
shales; coal outcrop under the shales; five feet under this, to top of 
great bed of chert, associated with blue limestone, and coal outcrop be- 
neath. <A large bed of massive sandstone, supposed to be that at the 
base cf the Coal Measures, lies not far below the blue limestone, its upper 
layers about twenty feet below the top of the chert and blue limestone 
This group of about 150 feet, affords little promise of any workable bed 
of coal; and seme porticns of it occupy the greater part of the township. 
White Eyes.—The only coal openings visited in this township, are those 
in the north-west corner, noticed with the coal beds of Mill Creek. The 
developments there have had ihe effect of discouraging other enterprises 
of the kind, especially as the demand for coal is so limited. In the 
noth east part of the township, along the road from Chili toward Bakers- 
ville, the Jands lic near the plane of the two limestone beds, with no 
promise cf workable coal; and none is reported by the farmers, in an- 
sSwer tO Our inquiries. 
Adams.—Throughout the north part of Adams, the coal bed most 
worked is No. 4, under the gray limestone. It is a bed of inferior 
character, both as regards the amount and quality of the coal 
it affords. It is commonly known as the “double bed,’ from a. 
sem of fireclay, about a foot thick, in the middle of the bed. It has 
been wo:ked half a mile west from Bakersville, where the whole bed. 
was four feet thick, the upper part mixed with cannel coal. _About. 
twenty feet above the gray limestone, which covers the coal bed, is a bed. 
of black limestone, of slaty structure, perhaps two feet thick. It contains. 
fossil shells, but in poor condition. This bed corresponds, in position 
with the “black marble” found in the western part of the county. 
Near the western side of the township, the double coal bed is worked on 
the farms of Powell, of Fillibaum, and of others in the neighborhood , 
and further east on Zinkon’s. At this place, the next upper bed (No. 6) 
is also opened ninety to one hundred feet higher up, and too close to the 
top ot the hill to be worked to advantage. It is a little over three feet 
