590 GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 
The following is an analysis of Parks’s coal: 
SOCIO SIRENIRAY Boomeb Bbta 600665 Gab bnO ObOGO0 6400 6 Hedo bodcbe boGSSS 1.296 
WIDE ooocod Sooisdg 09 90606 Bd9ON9 Cb0S00 F000 600650 S005 tigaeeS S608 3.80. 
INSD) So 0006 aadSS0 sdSdu0 SS S59 Sago00 CObbOU BabadS S400 CboOde Shas CO06 2.90 
Volanleombustiblematterwsecstscmastisssentss eee eee ae ana ees 38 80 
Mi CUCALDOMincs sy atemceree means tse eu Sy A rN a 54.50 
100.00 
Teh sl crit Man pubdate A Lies 1.12 
Sulphur left coke wi 1s ye oe ys Sects Sere taeda cle vay a cl elo ape enna nee 0.82 
Sul phunmToOrmino percentage Ohecoke we ce sete mie eee es 1.42 
JNA T! ORIS, JOSE HOW co96 soap daocbo os5oH6 Coun COO Pee RSI 2S) 3.16 ¢. f. 
ANIM Joa God code Gade 250000 6605 Sabo Sous ba SE0 SOK0 COON Hebe Dado CoS é gray. 
OOK) ce 6do0 Gate 60000048 66 G8Es cade 9555 50500 Sagneo seakco coon Sond e compact. 
Virginia.—Coal No. 6is pretty generally worked throughout the north and 
east parts of this township—in the north-west part, by Joshua Cornell, 
half a mile north from Moscow. The bed is here about three and a half 
feet thick, the coal in sound blocks, with very little waste of fine coal, 
and very little sulphur. When burned, it shows the purple-colored ash 
peculiar to this bed. This, as well as Parks’s coal, is in good demand 
through the neighborhood, and as far to the north-west as West Becford. 
From Moscow, east to Franklin, there are numerous openings worked in 
this coal bed, and thence south nearly to the canal and the railroad. At 
Michael Zimmer’s, two miles north-west from the canal, the bed is about 
ninety feet thick below the top of the hill, and overlying a bed of sand- 
stone ninety feet, under which is the gray limestone. The roof of the 
coal is black shale. The coal bed is four feet thick, the coal very hard, 
black, compact, highly bituminous, melting easily, and of excellent 
quality altogether. What sulphur is found, is in heavy lumps, and 
easily separated. A small seam of shale runs through the bed, a foot 
above the bottom. The elevation of this bed above the canal is about 
170 feet. 
Two miles south from this, and near the south line of the towhship, is 
the mine of James Scott, in coal bed No. 3, under the blue limestone. 
The locality is near the canal, and not far above its level. The coal bed 
is four feet thick, divided into two benches by fire-clay parting, the upper _ 
bench from six to twelve inches thick. The mine was opened in 1833, 
and has produced a large amount of semi-cannel coal, of good quality. 
The roof of the bed is a black, calcareous shale, two feet thick, abound- 
ing in fossil shells. The blue limestone resting upon this, is from four 
to five feet thick. The gray limestone is seen about forty feet higher up 
the hill, and under it a bed of slaty cannel coal, fifteen inches thick. | 
