SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT—HANGING ROCK DISTRICT. 919 
interval between the two coals holds unchanged from Nelsonville to the 
southern side of Jackson county. Beyond this point, the seam has not 
been certainly identified. It is probab'e that it becomes the Hatcher Coal, 
which is found on the river at fifty feet above the Sheridan Seam. As 
there is another coal due at that point, viz., Coal No. VI», the Hatcher Coal 
was identified in the section under this head, but subsequent examina- 
tions render it probable that it isin reality No. VlIa. If this shall be 
established, a change will be required in the naming of one or two other 
elements of the scale, but chiefly in the Yellow Kidney Ore, which has 
been doubtfully recognized as the southern extension of the Norris Lime- 
stone. A little time spent in the field can settle these questions. 
Like the great seam below it, this coal is everywhere found in threo 
divisions. It is cubical and lustrous, and apprcaches a cementing coal 
in character, being much richerin bituminous matterthan No. VI. It is 
nowhere made of as much account as from Hamden Furnace southward 
for afew miles. At the furnace, it has been opened and analyzed with 
reference to its employment as an iron-making coal. This analysis will 
be found on a subsequent page. It was shown to be of fair quality, as’ 
as the average of No. VI in this region, perhaps, but not good enough to 
. base an extensive iron manufacture upon. It was considered to be the 
Nelsonville seam when it was opened. It is named the Iamden Furnace 
coal in the general section. It is quite uniform in thickness, measuring 
three or three and one-half feet in almost every section where it is found. 
Both No. V and No. Via would be highly esteemed in many localities, if 
found as good as these seams are at Nel-onville and vicinity, but the 
presence of the great seam here, within thirty feet of each, robs them of 
all present recognition and interest. | 
11. Coal No. Vib is identified in the section as the Norris coal. There 
may be a question in regard to this identification, but there is none 
whatever as to the fact that about fifty feet above No. VI, a very 
persiztent seam occurs that sometimes has vo'ume enough to warrant its 
being worked. Oa the Whitmore farm, already referred to, n-ar Akron 
Furnace, the three seams, Nos. VI, VIa,and VI, are shown in full develop- 
ment in the same hill. All the seams are opened here. On an adjoin- 
ing farm, known as the Lefever farm, now owned by W. W. Poston, Heq., 
this last named seam is well opened, and shows a thickness of more than 
five feet. The coal has very much the character of that last described, 
and makes a very desirable household fuel.. Experiments have been 
made in coking it, which seem to promise some success. The seam, how- 
ever, is capricious in its development. Its mark is seldom missed, but it 
shrinks from five feet to as many inches, with very rapid alternations, 
West of the Hocking River, and to the southward, it is always thin 
