Identifier: HistoricalCollectionsOfOhio1891V2 (find matches)
Title: Historical Collections of Ohio: An Encyclopedia of the State ; History Both General and Local, Geography with Descriptions of Its Counties, Cities and Villages, Its Agricultural, Manufacturing, Mining and Business Development, Sketches of Eminent and Interesting Characters, Etc., with Notes of a Tour over It in 1886 V 2
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Howe, Henry, 1816-1893
Subjects: Ohio -- Biography Ohio -- History Ohio -- Local History Ohio -- Description and travel
Publisher: Columbus : Henry Howe & Son

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is excursions through these partsdiscovered an enormous sycamore tree belowthe mouth of Carrs run, near where Mur-dock & Nyes mill^ now stands, which wassubsequently occupied as a dwelling-house.Capt. Whitlock, of Coalport, informs methat he himself measured ^ that tree andfound the hollow to be eighteen feet indiameter. Capt. Whitlock further states,that as late as 1821 he took dinner fromthe top of a sugar-tree stump, in a log-house near where the court-house # nowstands, the only table the people had in thehouse. The view shown in the engraving was taken at the mines at Coalport, nearlytwo miles below the main village of Pomeroy. Here horizontal shafts are runinto the hill, at an elevation of more than one hundred feet above the river bed.The coal is carried out in cars on railways, and successively emptied from the carson one grade to that below, and so on until the last cars in turn empty into theboats on the river, by which it is carried to market. The mining is conducted in
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MEIGS COUNTY. 479 a systematic manner, and most of those employed are natives of Wales, familiarwith mining from youth. Dr. S. P. Hildreth, in the twenty-ninth volume of Sillimans Journal, writes: 14 The coal strata dips to the north two orthree feet in a hundred yards, requiringdrains to free them from the water whenopened on the south side of the hill. Abovethe coal is a deposit of shale and ash-coloredmarly clay, of eight or ten feet in thickness,which forms the roof of the mines—superin-cumbent on which is a deposit of stratifiedsand rock, rather coarse-grained, of nearlyone hundred feet in thickness. The shaleabounds in fine fossil plants. In mining thecoal, gunpowder is extensively used, a smallcharge throwing out large masses of coal.This coal being of the black slaty structure,abounds in bituminous matter and burns veryfreely; its specific gravity is 1.27. Twentygrains of the coarse powder decompose one hundred grains of nitrate of potash, whichwill give to this coal nearly

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