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mer, hundreds of wells drilled for oil and gas, the records of 

 many of which are available, show that coal is found only at 

 infrequent points, thus making it sure that neither county coi- 

 tains Pottsville coal of any considerable value. 



The following section, the upper portion of which is gen- 

 eral, being made up of observations made at various points 

 along the Little Kanawha near Bablin, and the lower part of 

 which is the record of the W. T. Wilson No. 2 (596 on Map 

 II) oil well, drilled by Wilson and Butcher along the Little 

 Kanawha River, 0.8 mile east of Bablin, furnished the Survey 

 by W. T. Wilson, of Bablin, being one of the few records of 

 this region that show coal, will give some idea of the Potts- 

 ville of Lewis, and also presents a possible correlation, hypo- 

 thetical of course, between the northern and southern areas 

 of Pottsville previously described. Names of formations ap- 

 pearing first refer to northern correlations while those fol- 

 lowing in parentheses show r possible southern identifications 

 with the Kanawha and New River Groups : 



Pottsville Series Section, Lewis County. 



Thickness Total. 



Pottsville Series (700') Feet. Feet. 



Sandstone, massive, gray, Homewood, (Homewood) 60 60 

 Shale, dark, with ferriferous limestone nodules 



and marine fossils 0.5 60 . 5 



Shale, dark, bony and silicious, with marine fos- 

 sils, (Kanawha Black Flint) 0.5 61 



Slate, black, bony 0.5 61.5 



Coal, Mercer. (Stockton) 0.5 62 



Fire clay and shale 8 70 



Sandstone, massive, grav, (Upper Coalburg) 70 140 



Slate, black, (Coalburg Coal horizon) 1 141 



Shales, sandy and sandstone, (Lower Coalburg).. 98 239 



Coal, Winifrede 1 240 



Shale, sandy, and sandstone, massive, Cleveland, 



(Upper Chilton) 53 293 



Slate, black, (Chilton Coal horizon) 7 300 



Continued by W. T. Wilson No. 2 (596) Well 

 Record (1015' B.) : 



Conductor 32 



Shale, black, (Cedar Grove Coal horizon) 6 338 



Sand, gray, hard 20 7 ~| 



Sand, gray, finer 40 [(Peerless) 65 403 



Sand, gray 5 J 



Coal, (Campbell Creek, No. 2 Gas) 2 405 



Shale, blue 13 418 



Coal, soft, (Powellton) 4 422 



