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the diamond drill should be made before final judgment can 

 be passed upon it. It is entirely possible that several of the 

 oil and gas well records published for this region, which failed 

 to show the coal, have omitted it, many of them being defec- 

 tive, and their information must therefore be regarded as in- 

 conclusive. 



In the northeastern end of the district, near Weston, the 

 coal is exposed along the public road near the Crescent Glass 

 Factory, about one mile south of town, where it varies from 1 

 to 1^2 feet in thickness, and comes 10 to 12 feet below the 

 Redstone Limestone and about 50 feet below the Redstone 

 Coal which was once mined in the hillside. The Weston 

 Brick Works Exposure (No. 151 on Map II), on the West 

 Fork River, one mile south of Weston, shows the coal to be 

 1 foot thick, at an elevation of 1020' B., as published under 

 the description of the Weston Shale, in Chapter VI, page 128. 



Pittsburgh Coal, Skin Creek and Collins Settlement 

 Districts, Lewis. 



In Skin Creek District, the horizon of the Pittsburgh Coal 

 is above drainage along all the principal streams, but at no 

 point shows a thickness sufficient to indicate that it can ever 

 be mined, although its blossom frequently occurs. In this 

 region, the Redstone Coal, which occurs in minable thickness 

 about 50 feet above the Pittsburgh, has been frequently mis- 

 taken for the latter horizon. The outcrop of the Pittsburgh 

 Coal is not shown on Map II for this district, as its presence 

 there would be misleading, but its horizon may be obtained at 

 any point from the structure contours. 



In Collins Settlement District, the Pittsburgh Coal hori- 

 zon is everywhere above drainage except in a small area at 

 the northern end around Roanoke. In this locality, two core 

 tests have been drilled the records of which could not be se- 

 cured, but the records of the gas wells of the neighborhood, 

 which show no coal, and the fact that in the neighboring 

 regions where the horizon of the coal is exposed, there is no 

 coal of appreciable thickness, lead to the belief that no Pitts- 

 burgh Coal of consequence exists in this locality. In the re- 



