236 Kansas Academy of Science. 



for coal have been carried on is in the region about Freshwater 

 Bay, seven miles west of Port Angeles. As before mentioned, this 

 field lies just to the south of the bay, on the northeastern portion 

 of a broad synclinal trough. The only evidence of coal found by 

 the writer ( Doctor Arnold, also by myself ) along the beach of 

 Freshwater Bay was on the eastern side, about one and one-half 

 miles east of Observatory Point. Here a twenty-five foot series of 

 hard, alternating gray and brown, thin- bedded sandstone strata 

 outcrops between the fine, gray, sandy shale, which is exposed for 

 some distance along this part of the beach. The sandstone dips 

 south fifty degrees west at an angle of twenty degrees, and is full 

 of more or less altered fragments of wood, some of which are six 

 inches in length, and most of them full of teredo borings." 



Mr. D. J. O'Brien, former superintendent of tlie Port Angeles 

 Goal and Coke Company, and now president of the Clallam Bay 

 Coal Company, prospected this field with a diamond drill, and 

 kindly furnished Doctor Arnold with the following drilling record 

 from a hole in a deep gulch about one-half mile south of the east- 

 ern end of Freshwater Bay, top of hole approximately at sea-level :^^ 



Feet. Inches. 



Dark sandstone 39 8 



Coal 4 



Gray sandstone 24 



Soft white sandstone 17 



Sandstone containing oyster shells 10 



Sandstone containing green boulders 10 



Sandstone 40 



Fire clay 20 



Gray sandstone 40 



Hard blue shale 30 



Gray sandstone 50 



Coal 2 2 



Gray sandstone 240 



Coal 4 _8 



Totals 527 10 



No development work has ever been done in this field. 



Clallam Bay Field. — As was stated when the geological forma, 

 tions of the strait region were discussed, the Clallam Bay coal-field 

 lies in a syncline between Pillar Point and Slip Point at the entrance 

 of Clallam Bay. This syncline has a northeasterly-southwesterly 

 axis. At the north it is truncated by the Strait of Fuca. It ex- 

 tends inland for a distance of more than seven miles, but is inter- 

 rupted on the east and south by sharp local faulting. In it the 

 coal-bearing formation consists of 600 feet of coarse, thick-bedded, 



72. Loc. cit., p. 418. 



