854 GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 
but it is nowhere opened. Towards New Lexington it disappears, being 
replaced by a heavy sand-rock. In the high lands in Reading township 
it is again seen, and has been mined toa limited extent. For several 
miles south of Buckingham traces of the Norris coal may be seen, but it 
has not been met with on Lower Sunday Creek, neither in shafts nor in 
borings. On Snow Fork, in Ward township, Hocking county, it is fre- 
quently seen. My assistant, Mr. Gilbert, found it in Section 4, forty-five 
feet above the Nelsonville seam. Col. Charles Whittlesey reports it in 
a section taken by him on the Middle Fork of Snow Fork. It is there 
about forty feet above the Nelsonville seam, and from two to three feet 
thick. It is to be found on the Maxwell land about forty-five feet above 
the Nelsonville seam. At Bessemer, near tne Akron furnace, it is two 
feet six inches thick, and fifty feet above the bottom of the Nelsonville 
seam. On the landof J. L. Gill, Esq., on Meeker Run, it is forty-three 
feet one inch above the same seam. It is only here one foot six inches 
in thickness. On the coal property of Peter Hayden, Esq., near Hayden- 
ville, it is about forty-two feet above the Nelsonville coal. It is to be 
seen at many other points, but it is needless to give them all. All the 
locations in the Hocking Valley where it has been found sufficiently 
thick to be worked have been mentioned. 
The Bayleys Run, or Stallsmith seam (Coal No.7)—This seam is found 
on the Upper Sunday Creek, in Perry county, where it is known as 
the Stallsmith coal, and on Lower Sunday Creek, Athens county, where 
it has long been known as the Bayley’s Run coal. It is a seam of wide 
range, and may be found almost everywhere where the hills are high 
enough to contain it, although it sometimes fails. Its place is approxi- 
mately from eighty to ninety feet above the horizon of the Nelsonville 
seam. Generally the interval is greater where sand-rock intervenes than 
where we find shales, this being due, doubtless, to the greater compres- 
sion of the shales. This coal, as found in Dover and Trimble townships, 
is noticed in the report on Athens county, in Vol I. The seam is from 
four to five feet thick—seldom less than four and one-half feet—with a 
thin parting about one-third of the distance from the top. Asa rule, 
the quality of the coal in these townships is excellent; but in some 
places the coal contains too much sulphur to permit its use for the higher 
metallurgical purposes. The coal is always cementing in its character, 
_and promises to be an excellent coking coal. The small trials already 
made prove this. I have obtained several samples of this coal from 
Trimble and Dover townships, which have been analyzed by Professor 
Wormley. 
