The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-02-07

Among the public documents sent US
by DR. Monahan, is the report OF Andrew
Roy, State Inspector OF Mines In speak
ing of the coal in Ohio, be in one place
thus refers to the coal in jackson county:
"A new shaft sunk one mile south of
Wellston, on the line of the Dayton Mar
row Gauge railroad, is eighty-fve feet
deep and has three feet ten inches of coal.
Fourteen feet above the floor of the coal
there is thin seam nine inches thick
This is the equivalent Of the thin coal on
the Elk Form farm Of DR.. Wolf.
Passing along the line of the Dayton
railroad the Welston coal appears 20 be
continuous, and is met in full thickness
wherever the coal-borers have sunk for
it. On the Lucas farm two miles west OF
the DAYTON shaft, the coal is forty eight
feet below the surface, and one mile west
OF this drill hole it is only twenty eight
feet deep
Where this railroad crosses the old
Hamden road, on the Frank Scott farm,
the coal comes to day, and is afterward
level free.
Leaving the line of the railroad, at the
Washington Meeting House, and passing
up PIdgeon Creek, this seam is buried
half mile west of meeting-house, on an
arch which divides Pidgeon Creek from
Hope Creek In less than one mile il
reappears and gradually rises, till it
finally crops out on the hills on the Nc
Kitrick farm, one-half mile north OF
Jackson Court House.
A level from the mine opened on the
McKitrick farm toward Jackson, strikes
the dome OF the court house at its base.
A mile east Of the court house, and two
and half miles from the McKitrick
Mine, the coal comes in again in place,
but is too thin for mining purposes,
measuring only fifteen to eighteen inches.
A level taken from the lowest coal in
the Star shaft, to the base O. the dome OF
the court house, shows the horizon OF the
McKitrick coal TO be l75 feet above the
shaft coal. In this level no account is
taken OF the dip of the strata, but alter
due allowance is made fer the dip, the
true place OF the Jackson Hill coal can
not be less than $50 feet above the Jack
son Shaft. coal in the swamps OF the mine
is ITO feet above the shalt coal in the
high arches or hills Of the mine.
All the Goals of the State series belong
to the bituminous variety and consist OF
three different groups, known as open
burning coal" "cokIng Goals, and camel
Goals The open burning Goals also
called "block Goals" and dry Goals.
possesses a laminated structure, and are
easily split up into thiR layers, the faces
of which are usually covered with a dead
carbonaceous material resembling char
coal In the act Of combustion, these
Goals neither smell nor change form un
I'll they fall to ashes, and hence they are
admirably adapted for furnace use in q
raw state The lower Goals of the series
often possess this open burning quality
and is largely used in the blast furnace
in consequence, as it comes from miners
pick both in the MahOning Valley and
in Jackson county, and to some extent
also, in the furnaces OF the Massillon dis
/ trict
The Wellston coal Of jackson county
which | have designated as rIbably
Coal No. ., possesses this open-buTnina
character, and is thrown into the furnace
as soon as it comes out OF the mine.