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RECORDS OF COAL TEST BORINGS, 

 LEWIS COUNTY. 



Summarized Records. 



In Lewis 18 tests for coal have been drilled, all of which 

 were visited in the field in order to secure the accurate loca- 

 tion and level. The records of only two of these wells were 

 secured, as most of the operators failed to honor the requests 

 of the Survey for this information. The following table, while 

 lacking the details that these records would afford, is still of 

 value for the columns giving surface elevations and owner- 

 ship. The first column gives the key number on Map II, by 

 which the position of the boring may be found, and in the 

 elevation column the letter "L" signifies a hand level deter- 

 mination, and "B" indicates that the aneroid barometer was 

 used, checked on the nearest government elevation. In the 

 company column, the letters "L. K. S." refer to the Little 

 Kanawha Syndicate: 



Detailed Coal Test Records, Lewis County. 



The record of the J. C. Marsh (280) coal test, located on 

 a branch of Fink Creek, 1.2 miles northwest of Hurst, Free- 

 mans Creek District, is published in the section for Hurst, 

 page 57. The Pittsburgh Coal was found at 410^ feet and 

 was 7 feet thick. The following test, furnished the Survey 

 by J. Perry Thompson, of Fairmont, W. Va., starts five feet 

 above the base of the Sewickley Sandstone, but failed to find 

 either the Redstone or Pittsburgh Coals: 



