506 COAL - 



W. E. Arnold Heirs Coal Test No. 1 (523). 



Courthouse District, on West Fork River, 0.5 mile west of Browns- 

 ville; authority, N. T. Arnold; completed, July, 8, 1902; elevation, 



Thickness. Total. 

 Feet. Feet. 



Surface 8 



Sandstone, Sewickley 5 



Blue shale 2 



Red shale 2 17 



Blue shale 



Red shale 4 



Very sandy shale 35 57 



Sandstone. ^'jcedarville 2 77 



Mica sandstone 12 j 



Blue shale 6.5 82.5 



Gray sandstone 3.5 86 



Blue shale 



Red and blue shale 1 



Light blue sand with black band 6 



Blue shale 5 



Mica sandstone, Weston 6 106 



Blue shale 6 112 



Sandy shale 7 119 



Blue shale 5.5 124.5 



Mica sandstone 3.5 128 



RECORDS OF COAL TEST BORINGS, 

 GILMER COUNTY. 



Summarized Records. 



In Gilmer 18 tests have been bored for coal and the avail- 

 able data on these, together with another one in Braxton just 

 across the Gilmer Line, are included in the following table. 

 The table is similar in form to that published for Lewis on a 

 previous page of this Chapter and needs no further explana- 

 tion. Only a few of the records could be secured, as some of 

 the operators could not be reached, while others refused the 

 desired information: 



Detailed Coal Test Records, Gilmer County. 



The following record, furnished the Survey by J. Perry 

 Thompson, of Fairmont, starts 40 feet below the top of the 

 Sewickley Sandstone, making it certain that the streak of 

 coal at 157 feet represents the Pittsburgh, which was too thin 

 to be of value : 



