The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1881-04-21

neer miner OF the Mahoning Valley, and from whose
farm at Briar Hill, the AIahoning Valley coal derived
its name. Governor Tod and his partners leased a
tract of land opened mine and built furnace in
Jackson county, but did not make financial success
of the adventure, and they soon sold ont The fur
mace has been torn down, but the mine is still in sue
cessful operation The main cause of the aiIure of
this ent.rnrise was III o,-oot,. f;,,. 80 a., No
rietta and Cincinnati potnoo1 rrb L,,, .ir,+o5 |
Governor became disrustod VIII +ho o>-troord;nrr
CHARGES for freight local froiob+ of a c, IL boi,
as high as through FREIGHT apd sold ont
The Welston coal (CoaItopl 1vas discovared bv |
Hon IT, & Rupdv member Of C,onoross fro,, tbis dis
trict who was then as now extensively engaged in
the manufacture of charcoal MO won NJ Rrpdv
70, e,sopad that nc sbo1o tto ,,s,o1 co, ,- ooo1 ~
ned ont in tbe rodius noar bio bou,oe.,d , s a.
JacLson SHAFT coal ,yos o,1,- Go, - ,;tt a.
cboncns for sndino tbo Too,., oaI - $50 Is' w
worthy of trial He ACCORDINGLY en,n,oyed dri1Ier
and started hole On his Homestead forr, -bicb o-
tends to the new village of W.Iston and At tb detb
of 60 feet was rewarded by the of four foot
vein of COAL The Milton Furnace and Coal Comnanv
Drocured bv leasa several bundrad a.res
of1ond .d;oripo pr,5,.s Co., - -. ...;,,x a.
territory Inv herring ronnd four roo+ ;, f 900, T.;
orerr bo1o rbo,r s,,nI- n 49,. o, .os = H..
c,r,ooo In 1910 ,naI~io. a. 49,, - go " - ~, a.,
| nros.ior +bo+ tto, h,d -, ~. -. CO. -,
[or ;rrrossior oborod Nv NJ d. -. t,, s,ao
Of tbe mineral The question of tha ,dantit of The
t,ro ooo1s 80 s+;n a., di.n,,to T.; TO- - - ~ -
omcia1 ieit 70 tto nnino. of +hi a;tit ,ts. -
| accommodated nv Mr. Jobn IJou ,,iro boss for tLo
| Milton Furnace and Coal 70 traced +bo +,o oooI.
from Well.ton TO Jackson and by tho aid or an eni
naers level es+.b,;sbod +boir tro ,,oo. IN d. ooI
strata. Prof Edward orion. President state Tni-
v.rsitv who az one of +bo ,,oo,oo,ooI oors ~ tbo
State surveyed this district in 1873 naces the two
Goals 100 feet snart but the 1earnad on5 obearrin
professor who usually does very accurate work as
reolorist is unouestionablv mistaken in this nartIc
| ular
Although these Goals are now universally regarded
as different beds the fuel of tho waston coal being
furnace fpel was bonn etrole of ,ood for+rne for
| the Milton Furnace and Coal Comnanv The Wells
ton Coal and Iron CO. SINK shaft and built two fur
naces ON the Bundv territory in 1874 and this yen
ture was followed by the erection of the Eliza fur
and the sinking of another shaft in the vicinity
WeIston making three coal shafts and four blast
furnaces within distance of a mile The village of
wellston which had no existence in 1879 contained
population of 200 souls before the close of 1875
The iron ore and limestone used in the blast fur
naces this district are all natl coal measure beds
and are found in the vicinity of the mines -Four (
well marked horizons of iron ore are met named the
grey or limestone ore which is the equivalent of the
Ferriferous Baird ores of the Hanging Rock re-
gon, the limestone kidney, the red block the
block. Several other horizons in the dis
| trict, but the above are the important beds The
| limestones are two in number-the GREY and the
BLUE. The grey is used almost exclusively as fux
in the furnace being much superior to the blue for
| such purposes.
The horizon of the limestone in this district
fully $50 feet higher in the than the Jack
coal and is nearly 800 feet higher than the Wells
ton COAL These statements are at variance with the
published reports of all the biologists, but none
the less accurate on that account. The limestone
kidney the little red block and the sand block met
in descending order as they are here named but all
of them are higher up than the wellston coal. 1t
unnecessary speak of the quality of the pig iron
made in the district the Hanging Rock region being
known all over the United States for the superior
quality of the iron manufactured within its borders
Two narrow-guage railroads were projected to the
Jackson county coal field in 1S76-the Springfield,
| Jackson and Pomeroy Railroad and the Dayton and
South Eastern Railroad. The Springfield, Jackson
Pomeroy road projected to reach the jackson
Shaft coal, the Dayton and South Eastern road the
| Jackson Hill coal Welston coal now called the
Coalton COAL The Springfield road completed to
Jackson in the early part of 1875 but the superiority
of the Coaton coal domestic purposes, gem
Grating steam was so marked that branch road was
at Horse Creek from Jackson to strike the
Coalton seam, miles north of Jackson,
The mines were opened in the fall OF 1875 and ship
ments of coal began from the Coaton mines at once.
| The Springfield road was, however, changed in the
fall to standard guage and little shipping done
before winter. The mines opened were level free
drifts the outcrop of the coal where the is
thin light and dry and far from being in its best de-
velopment either to quality, thickness
Yet notwithstanding these drawbacks the coal COM
manded the market from the first Its wonderful pu-
rity its freedom from ash and smoke and its extraor-
dnary heating power at once brought it into
favor.
weston, the two lines meeting at Coalton making a
second outlet for the coal dozen mines were OPEN
ed and mining village built as by magic, and what
Twas fvv0v a M