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Sans Bois mountains one mile south of Henry Blaylock's house and 

 three hundred or four hundred feet up on the mountain side. It is 

 quite uniformly good except one and a half inches of shaly coal 

 three or four inches from the bottom of the stratum. The coal is 

 overlain by sandstone and underlain by clay. This coal was traced 

 one-half mile or more around the hillside and was about the same 

 wherever it was seen. From its position it seems to belong to the 

 Mayberry coal bed. The coal near the head of Ash creek and near 

 the west end of the Sans Bois mountains is said to be about eigh- 

 teen inches thick. The bed that appears to represent the Mayberry 

 coal, along the western border of the folded area, is from eighteen 

 to twenty-four inches thick and of a good quality. About four 

 miles northeast of Reams, at the west end of Sans Bois prairie, this 

 coal is twenty-four inches thick. The bed is very much fractured 

 at this point, which is on the axis of the Sans Bois anticline. 

 About eight miles south of Enterprise and one and a half miles 

 southwest of Russelville, along the head waters of Old Town 

 creek, the coal is twenty-nine inches thick, including a thin parting 

 of shaly coal eight inches from the base and another seven inches 

 from the top. On the southwest side of McChar mountain, along 

 the head waters of Long Town creek, the coal is nineteen inches 

 thick. One-half mile above the mouth of Old House creek, it is 

 twenty- one inches thick. The coal outcrops on Haytubya creek 

 one-half mile from its mouth and about six miles west-southwest from 

 Enterprise. At this place it is twenty-three inches thick and good 

 throughout, but closely fractured by lines a half to one inch apart ; 

 dip of bed 2° to 3°. About four and a half miles west-southwest 

 from Enterprise, the coal has been worked to some extent by strip- 

 ping. At that place it is twenty-two inches thick and uniform 

 throughout. One and a half miles north of Enterprise, the coal 

 is twenty-six inches thick and is worked for local demands by 

 stripping. 



Coals of the Cherokee and Creek Nations. 



In those parts of the Indian Territory lying within the Cherokee 

 and Creek Nations the coal beds were not traced in detail, and 

 were seen usually only at widely separated intervals, and cannot 

 therefore be definitely outlined in this discussion. However, the 

 structure of the area is quite regular, so that the general extent 

 and connections of the various coals can be fairly well outlined. 



