Lyman.] ^«^^ [Nov. 2, 



At another opening, about two hundred yards further up the branch 

 and on its north side, tlie following section with the same bed is exposed 

 from above downward : 



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Coal, bituminous, " hard," merely the tail of the out- 

 crop 9 



Slate 2 



Cannel COAL 1 3 



4 

 At an opening about thirty yards distant on the south side of the 



branch the Upper Cannel is about ten inches thick, but it is only the tail 



of the outcrop not well roofed over. 



An opening was made on the Upper Cannel in June, 1872, back of John 



McCarty's house on Droddy's creek, in the western edge of the tract, 



and gave the following section from above downward : 



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Sand rock, massive about 2 



Shales "30 



Coal, soft, rotten, bituminous " 6 



Clay "06 



Black slate " 0^ 



Cannel, the upper inch perhaps a little bony. . " 3 2f 



9 3 



The Upper Cannel was also opened in 1872 on the hillside over the 

 blacksmith's shop on Droddy's Creek, half a mile northwesterly from 

 the mines, and measures but 10^ inches, of which only the upper nine- 

 eighths of an inch are cannel or cannel slate, the rest all bituminous ; 

 but there was only clay and loam above, without any solid roof. 



The quality of the cannel coal of this bed at Peytona is very good, 

 though not quite equal to the remarkably fine coal of the Main Cannel 

 bed. 



On Lens Creek the Upper Cannel coal bed is of different character, but 

 is beyond question the bed called there Wood's Upper Coal. It seemed 

 in 1872 to have been worked only at Wood's upper mine on King's 

 branch, where it was opened by a drift about twenty feet long in the 

 winter of 1869 and 1870, with the following section from above down- 

 ward : 



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Coal, bituminous, softer about 9 



Clay " 0^ 



Coal, bituminous, hard, " splint " " 2 8 



3 5i 

 It was not then fully accessible on account of water dammed back by 

 fallen earth at the mouth. 



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