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but it was clearly evident that the coal underlay tlie whole tract 

 where it had not l)een washed out by the streams. I could obtain 

 no exact information as to its value nor even a fair sample of it, 

 the excavations iiaving been nearly filled with dirt. If this bed 

 siionld prove to be the same as that opened near Ellenboro', it 

 will probabh' average from fourteen inches to eighteen inches in 

 thickness and may be of good qualit3^, but cannot for many years 

 add any great value to the lands under vvliich it occurs. This is 

 tlie only coal of which an^tiiing is known, although the bore-hole 

 of which I am about to speak developed a bed of black slates at a 

 much lower level. 



The bore-hole alluded to was sunk by Mr. Moats, and lies about 

 three hundred feet inside the southeast property' line, and about 

 thirt}^ feet north of the road. Tlie record of this exploitation was, 

 as usual, not kept, and the account which follows, taken entirely 

 from remembrance of the alternation of strata, must be accepted 

 with great allowance, and is rather valuable as indicating what 

 was not found than for any positive results ascertained. 



Shales and loose stuff (?) 50 feet. 



Very hard white rock "like marble" without grain, only 



got through three or four inches in a day . . . 4 " 

 Sand rock, black slates, sand rock and fire clay . . ? " 

 "Soap stone" (e.e. soft slaty rock) . . . . 8-10 " 



Beneath the black shales occurred a sand rock of which there 

 were three in all. 



At three hundred feet enough oil was reached to see and smell, 

 and it seemed of good qualit3\ 



Starting from a station high up the hill at the southern corner 

 of the property, a rough section gave: 



? covered with debris 70 feet. 



Reddish-gray sandstone ? feet ) 70 " 



? ? " j" 



Greenish sand rock ? " ) or, ^ 



9 9 u j- o'J 



Massive plate of sandstone 30 " 



Flat sandstone in bed of creek. 



This brings the rocks down to about the level of the bore-hole, 

 and renders it probable that the first fifty feet through which the 

 hole was sunk included the first sand rock. 



It will be remarked that in the section here described no place 

 is given to the eighteen-inch coal bed, which occurs a little higher 

 up the run. Its position is to be looked for in the fift}' feet through 

 which Mr. Moats first passed. He ma}^ not have noticed it; or he 

 ma}' have forgotten it ; or (which is very probable) these fifty feet 

 below the general level of the bank of the run may consist of loose 

 debris which the stream has torn out and scattered along its course 

 where the soft coal would have disappeared. 



It would be dislo3'al to science to hazard an opinion on the true 

 horizon of these measures without the most careful instrumental 



