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A sample was collected from this coal, the composition 

 of which is published under Mine No. 153 in the table of coal 

 analyses at the end of this Chapter. 



Many thousands of tons of coal have been mined for 

 local domestic consumption at the W. P. Carr Farm Mine 

 (No. 154 on Map II), on Leading Creek, 0.5 mile northwest 

 of Linn, where, according to Mr. Carr and the miners em- 

 ployed by him, the coal attained a thickness of 9 feet. The 

 old opening had fallen shut, but a new r opening a short dis- 

 tance away showed 6' 9" of coal, at an elevation of 875' B. 

 The coal has also been opened at two or three points arc. 

 Linn but these openings have fallen shut. 



The Perry Talbott Farm Mine (No. 155 on Map II), on 

 Spruce Run, 1.5 miles southwest of Linn, showed 4' 4" of 

 coal, at an elevation of 930' B. 



In Dekalb District, the Pittsburgh Coal is not found in 

 the southeastern part, where its horizon crops, nor in the 

 western part where numerous gas wells, have been drilled 

 through the measures that should contain it, the conclusion 

 being that the coal does not exist in minable quantity. Its 

 crop is not shown in this district but its horizon belongs at 

 the base of the Monongahela Series which appears on Map II. 



Pittsburgh Coal, Glenville District, Gilmer. 



In Glenville District, the Pittsburgh Coal has been mined 

 extensively for local domestic consumption and is also being 

 mined commercially at the present, there being 4 mines of 

 this kind. The western line of disappearance on Map II 

 shows that the coal is not found in the district west of Glen- 

 ville, but may be present in a large part of the district east of 

 this line. In those portions of the district where the coal crops 

 and could be studied, its existence is a matter, not of opinion, 

 but of fact, and is shown as such by the line of its outcrop on 

 the map, which appears thereon only in those regions where 

 the coal is good. In a considerable part of the district, how- 

 ever, the coal is underground along the Grassland Syncline, 

 and since the information contained in available well records is 

 not satisfactory, the existence of the coal as a continuous 

 minable stratum must be a matter of grave doubt. Some of 



