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Ft. In. 



3. Cannel bone 0' 1" 



4. Coal (to slate pavement) .. .2 10 5 2 



"Principal office, Burnsville, W. Va.; butts, N. 80 W.; faces, 

 N. 10 E., by pocket compass; greatest rise, southeast; sample 

 collected from Nos. 2, 3, and 4 of section, in Main Heading, by 

 D. B. Reger." 



The composition of the sample is published under Mine 

 No. 181 in the table of coal analyses at the end of this Chapter. 

 The mine was not in operation when the sample was taken. 



The following mine is operated for local domestic fuel : 



S. L. Fincham Farm Mine No. 182 on Map II. 



On Little Kanawha River, 0.2 mile northeast of Gilmer Station; 

 Pittsburgh Coal; butts, N. 83 W.; elevation, 795' B. 



Ft. In. 



1. Draw slate 



2. Coal 1' 1" 



3. Bone 1 



4. Coal (to slate pavement) .. .3 7 4 9 



A sample was collected from Nos. 2 and 4 of section, the 

 composition of which is published under Mine No. 182 in the 

 table at the end of this Chapter. 



Pittsburgh Coal, Center District, Gilmer. 



In Center District, the Pittsburgh Coal has been mined 

 for local domestic fuel in a small area just southeast of Cedar- 

 ville, and also in another locality along Right Fork and Bear 

 Fork of Steer Creek in the southwestern corner of the district. 

 In the region northwest of Cedarville, along the Grassland 

 Syncline, where the coal lies under drainage, no direct infor- 

 mation regarding the presence of the coal in minable thick- 

 ness is available, but the fact that it occurs above drainage to 

 the north, east and south of this locality, is evidence to war- 

 rant the belief that there is a considerable body of good coal 

 in the region named. 



In the northwestern part of the district, in a large portion 

 of which the horizon crops, no Pittsburgh Coal is found, to 

 show which the "Line of Western Disappearance" and "Line 

 of Northern Disappearance" are placed on Map II. It will be 



