No. 1.] GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 63 



Oil-coal bench improves towards the east, the greatest thickness 

 (1 foot 10 inches) being procured in a pit sunk at the corner of 

 Grove street and Pennsylvania avenue in Acadia village, which 

 coal produced 120 gallons of crude oil to the ton; the average 

 obtained from the Fraser mine being about from GO to 65 gallons 

 per ton. 



CARMICHAEL AREA. 



For many years no workable coal was known to exist to the 

 west of the McCulloch -brook fault, on which the Albion coal 

 seams are lost ; and though many attempts were made to ascer- 

 tain the position of these seams no coal was found until the 18th 

 April, 1865, when Mr. Truman French, in prospecting for the 

 Nova Scotia Coal Company, discovered the fine seam of coal now 

 known as the Acadia seam, and presumed to be equivalent to the 

 Main seam of the Albion mines. The first opening of this seam 

 was on the area under consideration, near its western boundary, 

 from which point it was traced north and south, as described in 

 treating the general distribution of the coal seams. 



Acadia Colliery, 



The Acadia colliery, locally known as the Acadia west slope^ 

 is situated near the south-western corner of the Carmichael area, 

 and within the village of "Westville. Two slopes, corresponding 

 in dimensions to the No. 3 McGregor slopes, have been sunk on 

 the Acadia seam to a depth of about 140 yards from the crop. 



The section of this seam and the strata immediately overlying, 



as measured in the air shaft of this colliery, is as follows : 



Ft. In. 

 Brown carbonaceous shale 4 6 



Black bituminous oil shale 7 



Brown carbonaceous shale 6 6 



Ft. In. 

 Good coal, (1st bench) ^^^^ ^^^^ 2 9 



Good coal, (2nd bench) / ' 3 6 



Light arenaceous fireclay or holing 3 



Good coal (3rd bench) 



Coarse hard coal with iron pyrites, easily 

 separated by dressing from the other coals 



Good coal (4th bench) 



Coarse coal of fair quality 



Coarse coal not taken out 



y Bench coal 



3 8 



1 



3 3 



2 4 



2 4 



18 2 

 29 9 



