836 GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 
Creek, are several valuable bodies of the great seam. The coal on the 
Jared Dennison farm, in Monday Creek township, Perry county, was re- 
ferred to in the First Report. I afterward revisited this region and exam- | 
ined the coal on this ridge more carefully, and found some of the finest 
coal in the State. A good exposure of the seam was found on the land 
afterward bought by the Baird Iron Company, and the coal was thought 
to be very pure and well adapted to the blast furnance. Ores of excel- 
lent quality from this region had for many years been taken to the Logan 
furnace, with which Mr. Baird had formerly been connected. Hence, 
with tried ores and coal of the highest promise, it is not to be wondered 
at that the pioneer furnace in this immediate coal field should be located 
at this point. It should b> stated that Mr. Baird had previously used 
the coal of the same seam from the Straitsville mine in the furnace 
under his management, at Columbus. To the late Samuel Baird, Hsq., 
must, therefore, be accorded the honor of being the first to realize in . 
practice the value of the coal of this field as an iron-making coal, it 
being first successfully used by him at Columbus, and afterward at the 
Baird Iron Works. The Winona furnace, on Little Monday Creek, will 
doubtless be able to obtain coal from the Dennison lands, or from that 
vicinity. A tram-road would take down both fuel and ore. South of 
Gore are similar out-liers of coal, from which the Thomas furnace ob- 
tains its fuel. Two or three miles north of the Baird furnace I found ~ 
what I thought to be the Nelsonville seam, on the land of George Koch- 
ensperger. No levels were taken, nor intermediate sections, and there 
may be a mistake in identification, but I think not. The seam is much 
thinner than farther south, but the loss is, as usual, chiefly in the di- 
minution of the upper bench. The whole section taken here and on the 
adjacent land of Jacob Martzoff is as follows: 
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