[EzLs] THE CARBONIFEROUS BASIN IN NEW BRUNSWICK 49 
The occurrence of coal at different points in the province is inter- 
esting. Along the southern margin of the main basin these coals have 
been recognized as follows :— 
On Long’s Creek, south of Washademoak River....One foot. 
At Clones Settlement, two small seams..One foot, Two feet. 
Wry Mersereauy Brooks Reel din One foot. 
Oromocto River) Lohov branch ss) losis. es. sas. Five inches. 
All these places are from four to five miles north of the contact with 
the underlying lower Carboniferous formation. The angle of dip is 
very low and the associated beds should belong to the Millstone-grit. 
In the western portion of the basin, north of Fredericton, thin 
coals of similar character are reported from the Nashwaaksis River and 
from the upper part of the Nashwaak River, near Stanley. These also 
are near the margin of the basin and the thickness of the seams is in no 
observed case greater than one foot. 
Along the northern outline of the basin a thin seam of one foot is 
found on Dungarvon River, a branch of the Miramichi, similar to those 
already described. On the south side of the Baie des Chaleurs the thin 
seams near New Bandon have already been alluded to in Logan’s section, 
but in the rear of Caraquette, some miles further east a seam of sixteen 
inches with a parting of one inch of shale occurs. This should also be 
at about the same horizon as the seams already described. 
In the vicinity of Newcastle Creek at the head of Grand Lake, where 
the principal mines are situated, the thickness of the seam which is 
worked varies somewhat at the different openings. The greatest thick- 
ness yet found is nearly three feet, divided into two parts by a two-inch 
band of shale, but the lower foot is impure and shaly. In some of the 
levels the thickness over all was only one foot four inches with a thin 
interstratified band of shale. 
West of this area on Little River, two thin seams are found. One 
of these a short distance north of the road leading to Fredericton, has 
a thickness of about fourteen inches, the other about three miles further 
north is about the same in thickness and may represent the same seam 
on opposite sides of an anticline which extends thence to the head of 
Grand Lake. These seams have apparently never been worked. 
The same anticlinal structure is seen in the Newcastle basin. Thus 
the seams which are worked along Newcastle Creek are apparently 
repeated at Flower’s Cove about three miles south on the southern side 
of the anticline, while a similar structure is seen in the eastern part of 
the province in Kent county. 
East of the Grand Lake main seam similar but thinner outcrops 
are found on Coal Creek at the northeast angle of the lake where mining 
operations were carried on to a limited extent nearly forty years ago. 
Sec. IV., 1901. 4. 
