142 STRATIGRAPHY THE CONEMAUGH SERIES. 



Feet. 



Shale, variegated and sandy 10 



Sandstone, hard, gray, to bed of quarry, Lower Connells- 



ville, (1025' L.) 15 



The stone is gray, weathering to brown, hard, medium 

 grained, massive, but much broken up, having shale streaks. 

 The quarry is about 100 feet long and extends into the hill 

 30 feet. More details concerning this stone may be found in 

 a previous description by Grimsley. 10 



At the Bessie McDaniel Quarry, located in Freemans 

 Creek District, Lewis, on Polk Creek, 3 miles west of Weston, 

 the Lower Connellsville has been worked for macadam. Here 

 about 20 feet of sandstone is exposed, being gray, weathering 

 to brown, medium hard and medium grained. The quarry is 

 about 75 feet long and extends into the hill about 30 feet. 



The A. L. Holt Quarry, located in Glenville District, Gil- 

 mer, on Sycamore Run, 0.7 mile northwest of Glenville, shows 

 the following section : 



Feet. 



Pittsburgh Coal bench 



Concealed 55 



Sandstone, hard, gray, partly concealed in bluff, Con- 

 nellsville 38 



Concealed and sandy shale 37 



Sandstone, massive, Lower Connellsville, (747' B.) 18 



Shale, red, Clarksburg 



The Lower Connellsville here is gray and hard, with a 

 few small quartz pebbles, and quarries into large blocks. The 

 quarry is about 150 feet long and extends into the hill 30 feet. 

 This stone was used in the Wiant and Whiting building in 

 Glenville and for the piers of the highway bridge across the 

 Little Kanawha River in the same town. 



C. G. Davis has quarried the Lower Connellsville Sand- 

 stone in Center District, Gilmer, along Crooked Run, 2.7 miles 

 southwest of Glenville. Here the stone is massive, greenish 

 gray, being 30 feet thick, weathering to brown, and has a few 

 small quartz pebbles, its elevation being 765' B. It was used 

 for the construction of a cellar and appears to be good building 

 stone. 



"'G. P. Grimsley, Vol. IV, W. Va. G. S., p. 470; 1909. 



