Part I. Report of progress in 1869, by J. S. Newberry, chief geologist. Part II. Report of progress in the second district, by E. B. Andrews, assist. geologist. Part III. Report on geology of Montgomery County, by Edward Orton, assist. geologist.

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half miles east of Maxville, on the land of Jared Danison, Monday creek
township, Perry county, the coal measured, to the roof of the entry, 7
feet 8 inches. No opportunity presented itself for seeing whether there
was more coal above. Here were seen the usual partings exhibited at
Straitsville and Nelsonville. To the northeast, the coal extends through
the hills, and was seen on the land of Levi Rarick, not far from Bristol,
in Pike township. Hera the thickness was 4 feet 2 inches, and the seam
showed the usual partings. The coal above the upper parting is not
esteemed. About 18 feet below is another thinner seam, reported to be
21 feet thick. If this is the usual lower seam, it is nearer the upper than
is common.
On James Clark's land, one half a mile north, the coal gives the same
measurement. The seam is reported as worked all the way down Monday creek for some miles. From Mr. Clark's the seam was traced all the
way to New Lexington, where it is the upper seam in that neighborhood.
In Jackson township, north of Monday Creek township, the same seam
was seen on the lands of Eli Bell and Leonard Bell, in sections 34 and
35. Here the measurements were 3 feet 9 inches, exclusive of a stratum
of bituminous slate, in the top, from 7 to 9 inches thick. On Emanuel
France's land, Sec. 16, Pike township, the coal measured 4 feet 3 inches,
with the usual partings. The upper part is held in less esteem than the
middle and lower parts. Thomas McClelland's bank showed the same
thickness. North of New Lexington, the mines of Judge R. E. Huston
were opened in this seam chiefly; but he has mined, somewhat, the lower
seam 23 feet below. No measurements could be made. Judge Huston
reports the upper seam to be 4 feet, and the lower 31 feet thick. Here
the lower seam was found to be about 60 feet above the level of the railroad. The railroad, with its ascending grade, gradually rises above the
two seams of coal, and at the tunnel through the ridge which divides the
waters of Rush creek from those of the south fork of Jonathan's creek,
it has reached an elevation of from twenty to twenty-five feet above the
upper coal. The upper seam is here 4 feet 8 inches, and was formerly
mined quite extensively.
On the land of Henry Jones, one-fourth of a mile southwest of McLuney Station, the seam gives a total thickness of 4 feet 8 inches. The
upper part, of 13 inches, reported as not worked. Here, formerly, the
coal was extensively mined.
At the mines of the Miami Company, in Newton township, Muskingum
county, both seams are now largely mined, and the coal shipped by the
Zanesville and Cincinnati Railroad. The upper seam measures 4 feet,
and the other, which is 22 feet below, measures 3 feet 10 inches. Samples of the coals of this enterprising company failed to reach our Chemist. The coal is largely used for domestic purposes, and for the generation of steam, and is well spoken of.