The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1883-07-05
Early Coal Mining in Ohio.
BY ANDREW ROY.

o2aa neg OF the world extends through portions of
land, land, West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky Ohio,
at LEAST fG6gaS @ amd sn and GcsIPf @ an an
length Hg tn and M o from 30 to $50 miles in width.
the State about one fourth Of the State being
gin of the Ohio portion the great Coal field runs
umm edina Wayne Homes Rnogs. efiGgs GEffiige
T & h0Gking, LOCI Ninton jackson, Pike and Scioto
east OF this line of out-crop to the State line
ON the margin of the coal measures of Ohio in the
t 81 named above, only one workable bed o. coal
to OF the peculiar conditions under which this seam
while in the counties Jeffers?n Belmont Monroe,
washington Meigs Gal!ia and Lawrence, more than
to exist The strata dip at the rate about
which crops out the western flank the coal mea-
of The State is carried 0G to below the
fngton and Meigs the Ohio River. The dip of the
at Ro0 Pon 4sa ay So
be more T than 10 to 20 feet to the mile frequently
ofsyyncIin2l and anticlinal waves.
three series, namely SThs Lower Ssasnres, The
lower measures are about 800 feet in thickness: the
Barren Measures 400 to 500 feet thick and the Upper
1mmedlate commercial value are met in the lower and
The GOALS in present course of development are
mainly drawn from or different seams, No. /, No.
tnre. In mining districts however the Goals are
eEf Gy GfhHf m the than e @e
sonyille Coal the Ohio River Coal" and so on, and
tricts from which the Goals are mined and giving
pehend The IN progress rG1gh
the coal are changeable in their character and
Thus the g Briar Hill Coal is of the purest and
although geologically the bed the Brar HILL
ana an mined IN the same County; differs materially in
being long grained block coal, hard, firm and com
the Mineral Rdee S Coal IS short graneG
in raw state coke.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF COAL IN ONO"
The existence of coal in Ohio was noted by the
and by travellers from the earliest settle
near Bolivar, in Tuscarawas County. A map of the
E@ng IN m the OF & M
several sections of Coal and Iron bed and Harris
Hook hooking, quarries of excellent freestone beds
clay Of excellent quality red bole and many other
A number of our pioneer miners still survive Mr.
as9Ph MhitIesey I father Of Col Charles WhttIesey
the first to develop the Goals of north eastern Ohio
At Taimadge Center, in Summit County, Coal was
coal being mined for the exclusive OF the neigh
lowing in the hill We're operated efbyq By esiTs
sso In he rs pmea o be e vapy he of
IaImadge to Cleyeland were made by Newberry,
cal Survey Of Ohio, with the object supplying the
so abundant and cheap that the coal could find ho
The Talmadge Coal Co. was organized in 1888. the
prnGPai owners of m the mines il being Asaph whitle
In the Mahoning Valley the late Gov. David Tod
commenced shipping coal to Cleveland, from his
this time Wholly suppane @ the lake ny
msP m the coa @ be has
VA s Vaeyf Hey In 1879 the shipments
The late President Garfield was once a canal boat
Tod told the writer of this sketch few months be-
m3nd 5Sr aii GSs
the Soame %F the HSG Subject he he
on he from of tln
boat infenty reading history fthe United States
cards; Garfelds name was not in that history, :,
Pe dha at gra s me sasnt @a M
| tinguished member of Congress from the 10th Con-
scenes % Of his a boyish labor; canal boat driver
'i Of IN &odr H on
county, HPR @ MReq 'Ri
@ to fSa fee to M OH R6 MS6 Gn being
poyed to open the mine, in drifting into the HILL
in Weight piepp aee Pom a
IF h 6 Sed Garrfd it home to test
nou9eed ed, bastard camel black stone It after
fes tes se dP h @P n OF h coal
and In In 1851 was shipped to Cleveland.
In Is 1874 % John Lewis an English miner, who had
Mineral Ridge One day while digging up the floor Of
rity Of the floor to black band ore in Victoria Mines
in n EngIand e M infoTmed the propretors Of The
nine min as raqabf Of b2e band
directed the EnSllSl miner to m Inc
and caieIne m some Of the ore, which was done with
the black band mined The seam ranged in thick
cent of iron It Was not hoWeveF 5 he
1865 that the full value of this discovery was appre.
ctated the art of cacinfng the and using pru-
IDENTITY in the blast furnace not being understood
manufactured from judicous mixture of black band
ore ore h2d taken me front rank in the iron markets
can Scotch" " Il anu pi tAeo "S Anierl
The first iron manufactured from raw coal in the
states occurred in the Shenango Valley
and the @ Mahonng Valley of Ohio, from the native
manner being manufactured at the Clay furnace il
and Vincent The following year Iessrs. WiiRinson
Wilkes & Co, built a stone coal furnace at Lowell
The The beds bee @ Of eoa Of The Hooking Valley which Lie
ny ed by
f6 w ne 9T hS n9 that
poses So from m the e,s settlement Of the valley.
to be developed, which increased the demand o
construction of the Hooking branch of the Ohio
Canal was commenced by the Lancaster Lateral Cana
as the was completed 10 NelsonTilIe ani
coal shipped from the mines in September of tha
opened the first mine Nelsonville at the Doors Run
canal by an incline plane; Only the lower feet 0
coal was mined the upper two feet being left for roof
coal abandoned by the first workers recovered
steenrOd and J; F.. somers were among the pionee
gon hf 9 MoSbng %as xy o The hest fb
1872 more coal was consumed in Newark than Colum
in Columbus were John L. Gill and the old Nei
House.
The first systematic coal mining in Ohio on the Obi
River below Wheeling commenced at Pomeroy
in 1888. Samuel Wyliis PomerOy, of Boston, Mass
purchased the coal lands which the Pomero
Mines are now opened, in the year 1903. In 1878 h
consumption of coal between his property at PomerO
and the falls of the Ohio with the object of openin
the mines. The reply follows:
Il am able to communicate to you the following in
formation:
Bushel
Cincinnati steam mill consumes annually, 200
Iron foundry 20,0C
Steam Saw Mill 500
Manufacturing Co. d" - SOC