SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT—HOCKING VALLEY. 849 
North of the upper Sunday Creek we find the Nelsonville seam on 
the waters of the Moxahala; and the seam may be traced to New Lex- 
ington in one direction, and McLuney Station and thence to Zanesville 
in another. It is much thinner, and is somewhat changed in character. | 
It is mined at many points on the Cincinnati and Muskingum Valley 
Railway east of New Lexington, and is the basis of a pretty large traffic. 
The coal is more soft and melting than where the seam is thicker; but 
many people prefer such coal. Along the Ohio River, the Pittsburg coal, 
which is highly melting and adhesive, is generally preferred to the harder 
and dryer coals. In the very high hills south of Somerset, Perry county, 
the Nelsonville seam is found. At Joshua Green’s coal bank, Reading 
township, the seam measures five feet in thickness. The coal is rather 
_ dry-burning, and is prized for domestic and steam purposes. Patrick 
Redman and Michael Gainer, in the same township, have also mined the 
Nelsonville seam. There are, by estimate, 1,000 acres of productive coal 
land containing this seam, in Reading township. The same seam was 
noticed on the land of Hon. Lewis Green. About forty feet above, is the 
Middle, or Norris coal of upper Sunday Creek, which has been mined. 
Traces of the Bayley’s Run, or Stallsmith seam were found thirty five to 
forty feet higher. Below the Nelsonville seam, the Lower Lexington — 
seam is reported. Thus four distinct coal horizons are found in this 
ridge. These high grounds are remarkably well adapted to fruit, and 
large vineyards and peach and other orchards were seen. The ridge is, 
by barometer, about 320 feet above St. Joseph’s Run, on the road to 
Somerset. 
The Nelsonville seam appears farther east, in Clayton and Harrison 
townships. On_a hill, a mile and a half west of Saltillo, a section was 
taken, which showed the coal seams as follows: 
Te, LN 
Coal, Nelsonville seam, not measured. 
Imbervalwieesecteae soe ceniesic sets since WEA cence eisenemsececceciees 25 
Coal, Lower Lexington seam. 
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Coal, thin. | 
inrarVvall, CARTMAO coo05 560060 680668 696000 006056 060005 coDGnO DU0Gu0K 15a 
(GOR cco asad c606 6000 496000 6055 9060 060900 6000 0506 6900 65000 000500 60. 10 
DAKE TEN, CROPOERIEE Ls Boo6 po0660 o500 saG000 9900006650000 050 Spd0 000000 10 
Ore, siderite. 
Flint, fossiliferous, the equivalent of the Putnam Hill limestone...... 2-0. « 
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(COM Sd odo0 aod eao DOC QOO OEOGHS COOKoG BOR OOD CSOCOU HOOROH GOOObE GoUbe ne he 1 
On the land of James Watts, a little south-east of Saltillo, a bank is 
opened in what I supposed to be the Nelsonville seam, the coal 
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