COAL MEASUKES. 3S 



abandoned. It is probably the same as the Neeleyville coal, but it 

 is only about half as thick here as it is at Neeleyville, two miles 

 further west. 



A shaft was commenced by Mr. Loy, at Edgewood, in Effingham 

 county, and when last reported on was down nearly to the base of 

 the upper Coal Measures, and as it was commenced above coal No. 

 16, the highest seam in the State of any practical value, the record 

 is very interesting as showing the regular developments of these 

 upper seams in the centre of the basin. For the following record I 

 am indebted to Dr. G. W. Bassett, of Yandalia: 



EDGEWOOD SHAFT. 



Ft. In. 



No. 1. Soil, clay, sand and gravel 59 6 



No. 2. Rotten sandstone 1 



No. 3. Yellow clay shale 3 



No. 4. Eed sandy shale 2 



No. 5. Gray shale 16 6 



No. 6. Gray limestone 3 



No. 7. CoalNo.16 5 



No. 8. Blueshale 3 



No. 9. Sandstone and sandy shale 13 



No. 10. Dark clay shale 20 



No. 11. Impure fire-clay C 



No. 12. Hard calc, sandstone 3 



No. 13. Gray sandy shale 8 



No. 14. Clay shale, bottom dark 10 



No. 15. Coal smut 4 



No. 16. Pebbly limestone and iron stone 3 



No. 17. Dark sandy shale 30 



No. 18. Dark shale with limestone bands 11 3 



No. 19. Coal (semi-block) No. 15 10 



No. 20. Fire-clay, with nodules of limestone 3 



No. 21. Calcareous sand or limestone 8 



No. 22. Blue shale 30 



No. 23. Dark gray shale . 30 



No. 24. Dark and fawn-colored fossiliferous sbales 40 



No. 25. Bituminous shale, with shells and crinoids 1 



No. 26. Coal, upper part cannel No. 14 2 4 



No. 27. Dark gray fire-clay 3 



No. 28. Sandstone and sandy shale 18 



No. 29. Dark blue shale 6 



No. 30. Dark and fawn-colored shale 12 



No. 31. Coal (semi-block) No. 13 1 10 



No. 32. Fire-clay, with sigillaria, etc 1 



No. 33. Dark sandy shale 12 



No. 34. Dark and fawn-colored shales 27 



No. 35. Black bituminous limestone (fossiliferous) 3 



No. 36. CoalNo.12 1 2 



No. 37. Fire-clav 2 



No. 38. Dark gray shale, with one inch coal 5 1 



No. 39. Fire-clay 1 6 



No. 40. Hardsandrock 3 



No. 41. Black sandy shale 5 



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