1894.] -^oJ [Lyman. 



The THREE-FOOT BITUMINOUS COAL bed about one hundred and forty 

 feet above the upper cannel on the Peytona tract, has been partially 

 opened above Entry No. 4, with the following section from above down- 

 ward : 



FT. IN. 



Loam about 2 



Crop-OOAL, splint like 1 



Fireclay 1 5 



Coal, bituminous, firm and good 2 6 



6 11 



It may prove workable in some places, but cannot probably be counted 

 on as such throughout the tract. It is most likely the same as a bed of 

 unworkable thickness that has been opened on the waters of Indinn 

 creek, either the "Third Cannel," in Abshire's Hollow and on Meadow's 

 Fork (a bed yielding there about seven inches of cannel at the bottom 

 with bituminous coal above it), or a thin bed of bituminous coal said still 

 more to resemble it, formerly opened some twenty feet higher up, on 

 Meadow's Fork. 



The six-iNcn bituminous coal some twenty feet above the upper can- 

 nel was opened on the top of the point on the south side of Droddy's 

 Creek, near the western edge of the map; and is said to have been six 

 inches thick, pretty firm, but not splint-like, without solid roof, but about 

 two feet of ratlier hard clay above it. The same bed shows about three 

 inches of outcrop, without solid roof or floor, about thirty two feet above 

 the bottom of Entry No. 4, of the Peytona mines and on the north side of 

 the hollow. 



Upper Cannel. — The thicknesses of the beds in the general section 

 within three or four feet above the Upper Cannel bed are the means of 

 measurements at two places ; except that the thickness given for the 

 principal cannel bench is the average of four measurements near the 

 mines. That bench, however, is still more variable hereabouts. It has 

 been worked at the Peytona mines by a short drift, on which it measures 

 twenty-seven inches and about thirty-one inches ; and has also been 

 opened by a slope from the Main Canuel bed and measures there twenty- 

 one inches. 



On Abshire's Branch of Indian Creek, half a mile southeast of the Pey- 

 tona mines, the same bed is opened in several places, and at one of them 

 measures as follows, from above downward : 



FT. IN. 



Slaie 



Coal 6 



Brownish-gray sand rock about 3 6 



Brown shales " 16 



Cannel COAL " 1 11 



Shales, exposed " 3 



7 8 



