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ing had not been driven far enough into the hill to find the 

 roof of the seam and this measurement may not represent the 

 full thickness of the coal. 



L. C. Clark Farm Mine No. 115 on Map II. 



On Straight Fork of Little Skin Creek, 1.1 miles south of George- 

 town; Redstone Coal; butts, N. 85 W.; elevation, 1355' B. 



Ft. In. 



Slate, coaly 1 



Coal (to slate pavement) 3 2 



The Redstone Coal was once opened at the M. L. Bruffy 

 Farm Mine (No. 116 on Map II), on Skin Creek, 1.2 miles 

 northwest of Vandalia, at an elevation of 1395' B., as pub- 

 lished in the section for Vandalia, page 67, but the mine had 

 fallen shut and could not be measured. So far as known, the 

 coal has not been opened in Skin Creek District southeast of 

 this point. 



Redstone Coal, Collins Settlement District, Lewis. 



In Collins Settlement District, the Redstone Coal is under 

 drainage in the northern part, crops along the hillsides in the 

 central portion, but south of the Coal and Coke Railway soon 

 rises above the summits and appears no more in the panhandle 

 where the measures are rising rapidly southeastward all the 

 way to the Webster Line. Along the West Fork River, north 

 of Roanoke, where the coal lies under drainage, the evidence 

 is too meager to determine with certainty whether the coal is 

 of minable thickness. At Roanoke (Roanville), it was once 

 mined just above the river level (Opening No. 117 on Map II) 

 and apparently had a thickness of about two feet, and this may 

 represent its development to the north. Along the broad belt 

 south of Roanoke, where Map II shows the crop of the coal, 

 it will furnish a large amount of fuel as it varies from 2 to 4 

 feet in thickness. In the extreme southwestern part of the 

 district, next to Orlando, the coal disappears completely, leav- 

 ing a barren area of several square miles. The crop of the 



