582 GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 
The following is a section near Joseph Freese’s mine, north of West 
Bedford, Bedford township: 
DST N, 
Soil and drift. 
Buff limestone. 
Handstone andishale parhly covered) sese- eos eee eee eoe eae 100 0 
Coal outcrop 
aleve mee ech Sk be ese MN ere ic on Rare caer We tapmoaey iret wee SN AL Pe 30 0 
‘Gray elim es bone)see secre oene eis ole cin ited ote Sis ee ers a ern ere see geaerte ae 5 0 
6 fe Ril ra rnc: Vi ss eal a A a hal eS ese ysela 2 4 
Shalyisandstoness 2s 6 eal ties Weeche sola slcuartee seats ele tar ane Rene etapa es 30 0 
Coal J...Freése’s (NO%3a 2) siete sc oine oeitierae ete een ere a eer enn rs cme LIL 
Blue ‘calcareous shale! seo wise ats cece cis ae oan See ee eee 20 0 
Coal outcrop (No. 3) 
Space partly covered, mostly sandstone..---.-...-----.-.-- OX ng eee 80 0 
Coal No. 1 (2) 
Freese’s coal is a compound seam, consisting of, 
Biturminouscoal so aekeowes sttace ween Wee reheat areata 18 inches. 
Cannelicoales eee jen a eresieieiscin cae eo elele setae ee eae te repeertere NO) 18 
REYNE hp et A Ce een OMe AMES cC aeiaismo conodd Dood 3 to 4 inches. 
Bidumin ousicoale eae we cee oenicte cee e eee ieee einieece meee eeer 15 inches. 
Black shale 
At one hundred feet elevation the gray limestone appears in the run 
overlying a coal seam twenty-eight inches thick, not opened, and at one 
hundred and thirty feet is the outcrop of another coal bed of cannel 
character, the thickness not known. Over this coal is a heavy bed of 
massive sandstone, and above this to the top of the hill, about one hun- 
dred feet more, no more exposures are seen. But in the forks of the road 
near by, and some twenty to thirty feet higher elevation than the upper- 
most coal bed in the section, is an outcrop of hard, compact limestone, 
abounding in fossil shells, the stratum probably not over two fee! thick. 
It is remarkable, at this place, what a change the coals Nos. 3 and 4 have 
undergone from their much larger dimensions in Jefferson, only about 
three miles distant. No. 8a also assumes here a workable character, not 
observed any where else in the county. 
No other coal openings are seen between this place and the village of 
‘West Bedford. The village stands some fifty feet above the gray lime- 
stone, which is seen a little to the north; and the range of the strata 
is from the summit down into the bottoms about two hundred and forty 
feet. About forty feet lower than the gray limestone isa large outcrop 
of coal in the road, which is probably No. 8a, the blue limestone being 
met thirty feet lower in a large exposure of massive blocks. At the low- 
est point in the road, about one-half mile east from West Bedford, where 
the road forks, one branch going to Warsaw and the other to Roscoe, is 
