SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT—HOCKING VALLEY. 831 
The coal is easily mined by drifts into the hillsides, and good drainage 
and ventilation are easily secured. 
The Nelsonville seam is easily traced from the mouth of Monday 
Creck along the valley of that stream up to Straitsville and Shawnee. 
At Bessemer, on the Cawthorn farm, it is seen in a temporary opening, 
and the quality of the coal appears to be good. There are here the usual 
three benches of coal, but on the top of the upper comes in a highly 
bituminous shale, with more coal above it. This shale is generally met 
with for some distance up Monday Creek, and along the valley of Snow 
Fork. It is sometimes a foot thick. At the mines at the Akron furnace, 
it is left for a roof, for which it will serve a good purpose. In places, the 
coal above this shale will be good, and probably reward its removal. 
A little above the site of the Monday Creek Iron Company’s Furnace, I 
noticed recently the beginning of a drift into the Nelsonville seam. 
The three lower benches were seen and measured, as follows: 
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Over the upper coal of this section was seen the laminated bituminous 
shale observed on the Cawthorn farm, with more coal above, but measure- 
ments were impossible. The general quality of the coal appeared to be 
good, and although, perhaps, less dry- burning than at some other points 
in this coal-field, I should think it could be used in the manufacture of 
iron. I saw little a) in the small pile of coal at the outcrop, but 
the sulphur question always demands careful and special investigation 
wherever coal is Ae be used in furnaces. 
Higher up Monday Creek, at Carbon Hill, I examined the coal some 
years since. At the point examined the coal is in three benches, the 
top of the upper being irregular and ve Shales and not sand-rock 
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