42 SECOND BIENNIAL EEPORT [W. VA. 



Harrison and Upshur counties, with the information furnished the Grand 

 Juries in the different counties. 



June 12, 13, 14, 15, 1911. Preston county, (Scotch Hill Section). No. 1. 

 Collected a sample of pollution near the divide, on the Newburg side, from 

 a small stream running down alongside the road from a mine used occasionally 

 to secure coal for domestic use. The stream was of a yellowish or sulphur 

 color and was flowing a 1% inch stream, empties into Raccoon Creek, thence 

 Three Forks Creek, thence Tygarts Valley river, at Grafton. 



No. 2. Collected a sample at a small wooden bridge crossing Maple Run, 

 on the "Old Hotinspiller Farm." This sample includes all waters from the 

 Scotch Hill Section, (except No. 1) and from Maple Run empties into Sandy 

 Creek, thence Tygarts Valley river. 



No. 3. Collected a sample from a 1% in. stream flowing from the "David 

 Waddell Mine." This pollution flows into Maple Run, near its head. This 

 mine being operated for domestic use, and having a car of crop coal standing 

 near the mouth of mine. 



No. 4. Collected a sample from a 2% in. stream flowing from a marsh of 

 about 150 sq. yds. 



No. 5. Merchants Coal Company. This sample collected at an opening 

 near the "Gene Phillips Farm and Dwelling." This stream was seven (7) 

 inches in diameter and very highly colored, and a short distance below the 

 opening it empties into a small stream of pure water, which are the head- 

 waters of ' ' Caintown Creek, ' ' and enters Sandy Creek about three miles below. 

 This opening from which this pollution flows is 1% or 2 miles back of Tun- 

 nelton, and was opened to let this water out, as the coal dips to it. The coal 

 is being taken out at Tunnelton. 



No. 6. This s-ample taken from "Raccoon Creek" about three hundred 

 feet below r a well near the road, and includes the pollution from Gorman, 

 Hiorra, Hites, Austin and West End. This Creek was flushed from heavy 

 rains in this territory prior to taking this sample. 



The Scotch Hill Section contains quite a number of abandoned openings 

 most of which are in the tops of hills, and. quite a few were found to have no 

 water whatever running from them, and the samples were taken from those 

 worth noticing. In addition to covering about two thousand acres of this 

 property, I carefully encircled the section below where all streams would flow, 

 and wish to state that No. 1 into Raccoon Three Fork, and No. 2, (contain- 

 ing Nos. 3 and 4) into Maple Run Sandy, comprise all coming from Scotch 

 Hill territory. 



These samples Nos. 1 to 6 inclusive were sealed and expressed to Hon. 

 Geo. M. Bowers, U. S. Fish Commissioner, Washington, D. C. 



July 25, 1911. No. 104. I made another investigation near the opening of 

 the Merchants Coal Co., making a fish test at the same point that No. 5, 

 was taken from, Nine (9) Sun Perch dying in 50 minutes, seven (7) more 

 in l!/4 hr. and a large sun perch in 2% hrs., this stream was flowing a 7 in. 

 highly colored stream, into Caintown Creek thence Sandy Creek, thence 

 Tygarts Valley river, and I also took a two gallon samrjle of this pollution 

 and under my own seal, shipped the same to Hon. Geo. M. Bowers, U. S. 

 Fish Commissioner, Washington, D. C., and on Dec. 6th, 1911, gave the in- 



