SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT—HOCKING VALLEY. 857 
other known seam which this coal can represent, and Mr. T. Black, who 
has charge of the mining of the coal and ore for the Akron furnace, has ~ 
found no other seam in this general horizon. If this conclusion about 
the coal is a correct one, the place of the ‘“‘ Bessemer ore” is, unmistaka- 
_ bly, below the Bayley’s Run seam. 
On Floodwood Creek, on the land of Hon. J. W. Nelson, the Bayley’s 
Run seam is four feet two inches thick, with a two inch parting. Its 
place was found by barometer to be between eighty and ninety feet above 
the Nelsonville seam. On the south branch of Meeker Run, on the land 
of J. L. Gill, Hsq., the same seam is four feet three inches thick, and 
eighty-nine feet above the Nelsonville coal. Traces of this seam appear 
at many points at the proper horizon in all the Hocking Valley coal 
field. At the Bristol Tunnel, in Pike township, Perry county, this coal 
is seen on the ridge over the tunnel on the land of Mr. Clark. It is here 
about three feet six inches thick, and from eighty to ninety feet above the 
Nelsonville seam exposed in the railroad tunnel. The coal is of the 
melting class, but contains a good deal of sulphur. 
Above the Bayley’s Run seam, which is probably Coal No. 7 of the 
northern series, there are several thin seams which appear to be per- 
sistent in their several horizons, but there is no space for detailed notice 
of them. There is, on Lower Sunday Creek, a thin seam of coal, about 
forty-five or fifty feet above the Bayley’s Run seam, called, sometimes, 
the “Splint coal.” This has, by some, been considered as the true No. 7 
seam, and the equivalent of the Stallsmith seam or Upper Sunday Creek. 
I see no reason for changing my original opinion, that the Bayley’s Run 
and the Stallsmith seams are the same. Furthermore, I find on Upper 
Sunday Creek, traces of the Splint coal seam above the Stallsmith seam, 
holding the same relation to it in distance that the Splint coal holds to 
the Bayley’s Run seam further south. 
The Pomeroy seam is to be found in the high hills east of Lower Sun- 
day Creek, but it is thin and of no practical value. Its place is, by ba- 
rometer, about four hundred and twenty feet above the Nelsonville seam. 
IRON ORES. 
.These may be grouped into two divisions—those below the Nelsonville 
coal, and those above it. 
Lower Ore.—l\ron ores are very frequently met with resting upon the 
Maxville limestone and its equivalent, and at some points directly under 
the limestone. These ores are generally oxydized on the outcrop. Such 
ore is seen above the limestone of the Maxville series below Logan, and 
above the Maxville limestone near the village of Maxville. A drift 
