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The coal area of Gilmer is not large, since it comes within 

 the belt where the great Pittsburgh seam disappears westward, 

 and with it practically all of the others, so that the western half 

 of Gilmer has practically no commercial coal. Nature, however, 

 as if to make up for this deficiency, has given her large deposits 

 of oil and gas, while to Lewis she has given much coal and oil, 

 and one of the greatest gas fields in the State. In fact from 

 Lewis County hundreds of millions of cubic feet of gas go daily 

 to the States of Ohio. Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and 

 Maryland through the pipe line systems and pumping stations 

 of several great gas producing and marketing corporations. 

 Some of the largest gas wells (36 million cubic feet daily) ever 

 measured in the Appalachian field have been found in or near 

 Lewis County. The accompanying economic and structural 

 geologic map shows the coal areas of the two counties as also the 

 anticlinal and synclinal folds which have given origin to the oil 

 and gas pools indicated as already developed. 



I. C. WHITE, 



State Geologist. 



Morgantown, W. Va., March I, 1916. 



