Lyman.] ^-^ [Nov. 2, 



full thickness. The quality is only imperfectly shown, as the coal dug 

 had no solid cover and is all mere crop coal, yet seems to be good. 



The bed has been worked at Curry's mine, in Church Hollow, about 

 one hundred yards outside the Parker tracts, and just outside the north- 

 eastern corner of the Lens Creek map ; with the following section from 

 above downward : 



FT. IN. 



Sand rock 



Coal 1 5 



Gray slate 2 



Coal 3 2 



Fireclay 



4 9 

 The SIX-INCH bituminous coal bed about twenty-three feet below the 

 Pittsburgh bed at Peytona, was opened in June, 1873, on the lumber slide 

 above the No. 1 Entry of the old Peytona mines. 



The Fouu-INCH SOFT, bituminous coal bed about one hundred and ten 

 feet below the Pittsburgh bed, at Peytona, was opened in June, 1872, on 

 tlie lumber slide above the No. 1 Entry of the old Peytona mines, with a 

 fine-looking bed of fireclay partly exposed below. 



Slate Vein. — The slate vein on Lens Creek was opened by an old drift, 

 near Curry's coal mine in Church Hollow, just outside the northeast cor- 

 ner of the map ; and measured as follows, from above downward : 



Slates, exposed some 6 



Coal, cannel 1 2"] 



Black slate 1 



Coal, soft, bituminous, more than half 



under water, about 1 3j 



9 5 



The same bed was also opened in June, 1872, on the hillside up the hol- 

 low opposite Mrs. Nuby's house and King's Hollow on the Left Fork of 

 Lens Creek, below the opening of the Pittsburgh bed there ; and measures 

 as follows, from above downward : 



FT. IN. 



Clay, gray, perhaps not in place 



Coal, cannel, slaty 



Brown slate or clay, with a little coal 



Coal, bituminous 



Gray clay 



Coal, bituminous , 



3 3 



The THREE-INCH CONY COAL about two hundred feet above the upper 

 cannel coal bed was opened above Entry No. 4, at Peytona, in 1872 ; 

 but only showed two or three inches of bony crop-coal, or crop cannel, 

 or perhaps merely crop-slate. 



