The Huntington argus. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1872-1905, 1872-06-08

Ohio hasRn average width oftweniy miles.
The westerly portion, offive miles. consists
OF block and kinney ores; the middle por.
ton, ten miles wide, OF limestone ore and
the easterly portion, five miles wide. ~
Top Hill, Black Hill, yellow kidney. and
another and heavier kidney not named.
ard two others that Ono, being a geolo-
gist) am unable to classify. One is a red
ore OF four feet seam found in the hills ON
Camp creek branch OF Symmes,
through which the line now being run bv
Captain Dandridge passes; the other from
two 10 four feet seam OF gray ore, east and
south OF Marion
This red ore is pronounced 10y DR. Nor.
ton, Of Portsmouth, partner and financial
manager of the Gallia Furnace COMPANY.
a red limonite, producing, by actual test at
the Gallia Furnace, sixty per cent OF me
tSllic iron. 1t is at an elevation OF eighty
feet above the water level At the water
level is a dark-colored ore, that suppose
10 be the black hill ore further west and
southwest This shows at various points
on the line south for 10 miles, aud is there
seen from Is inches TO > ieet thick. Be.
tween these, in the same hills, is another
red ore, that suppose TO be the top Hill ore
have no opportunity of knowing its
thickness The kidney ores are found in
all the hills from Dry Ridge to the Ohio
river, adistance OF thirty miles
Some OF these ores contain their own
flux, and will he admirably ad.ptei TO
smelling with bituminous coal. IL is n
fortunate Providence that places these
heavy ore seams and a large area Of the
richest portion Of the red limestone ore
belt, in the same hills in which is found a
coal that is shown 10y ANALYSIS Of the
State Chemist must prove one of the finest
smelling Goals in the United States. That
analysis gives OF fixed carbon, .6O6O. sui
phur, .OOS2 sulphur remaining in coke.
OOJ1. Or seven parts OF one per cent only
left to combine with the iron when smelt-
ing with the raw coal, an amount so in
iinitesimal as to make this coal avery near
approximation to charcoal in iron making.
This coal field is very extensive, cover
ing an area Of over 100 square miles
the line OF the Southern Ohio passing
through il full fourteen miles 1t is in
seams of from to 8 feet, and at con.
yeuiaD+ e1av.t;o, C-,,, IL. -
mined and loaded cheaply, while numer
Gus tributaries Of Symmes Creek. general
ly about four miles in length, penetrate the
coal and iron on both sides, but especially
on the west, and are destined to make a
very large additional area to that COM
manded 10y the main line, tributary to the
road. II the Oak Ridge feet seam is the
same, this field Of manufacturing coal il
much more extensive on a northerlv and
southerly line than have represented. .-
To distinguish this superior coal, which is
destined to enter largely into general use.
from other Goals on Symmes Creek, it will
be appropriate that ii should be known
hereafter a- the "Symmes Creek Coal
What is known ~ the Marion Seam. OF
'ro" d 10 : ieet' is south Of thi-; Marion
ue,ng probably the centre Of an extensive
ne'" 'h't COL "eo. y. Gray (who is famil-
lar with The Connellsville Penn, coal, }
thinks similar aud viii prove equal to the
'o""e'.-'''lr as " cokIng AMI gas produc
Cd. e.
"s coal u 3d. us value to manufactur-