852 GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 
No. 1 No. 2 
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The same seam of coal has been opened and mined on the hill above 
the Sands bank, the latter in the Nelsonville seam. This is in Section 
9, Monroe township. It is here four feet two inches thick, and has over 
it a roof of clay shale. The seam here is about fifty feet above the great 
seam. It may be traced from this point to the north. On the Latta 
farm it is seen on the hill-side above the great seam. North of this it is 
venerally quite thin, but it may be traced all along the stream to a point 
east of Oakfield. From the last mentioned point it is, perhaps, a mile 
and a quarter over the ridge to the village of Moxahala, where the seam 
appears again as the Fowler or Black coal, it having been mined here by 
Mr. Thomas Black. It is here about five feet thick, and is a dry burning 
coal of great excellence, and has proved to be a very popular coal for 
domestic use. It makes a very large bright flame, and has been used in 
the gas-works at Circleville. It will be tried in the Moxahala furnace. 
It may contain too much sulphur for a good furnace coal, but further ex- 
plorations may find it in requisite purity. 
There has been much discussion relative to the true place of this coal 
in the series of coal seams. Professor Ballantine, assisted by Hon. 
Alvah Jones, of Roseville, traced, in 1869, the Nelsonville seam from 
Roseville, and found it to be below the Fowlercoal. Mr. Black regarded the 
seam as the Norris seam. The author of the profile published in the 
Report of the Inspector of Mines makes it the northern continuation of 
the Bayley’s Run seam of lower Sunday Creek, there eighty feet, more or 
less, above the Nelsonville seam. Mr. M. C. Read, who visited this field 
last fall, is reported to regard it as the upper portion or bench of the 
Nelsonville seam, while the lower part of the same seam is to be found in 
the bottom of a shaft fifty-two feet below ; in other words, the Nelson- 
ville seam (Coal No. 6) was here split into two parts, with fifty-two feet 
of sandstone, etc., between them. The reported proof that the Fowler 
coal is certainly a part of the great seam is derived from the supposed 
fact that on a branch of Sunday Creek the Great or Nelsonville seam 1s 
