Lyman.] ^^£74 [Nov. 2, 



The bed seems to thin out, not only south-westward towards Peytona, 

 but northwestward towards the Kanawha ; for near the river it measures 

 but 2 feet 10 inches in one place, and would seem to be much less than that 

 in Church Hollow and thereabouts. At the few points, however, where 

 fully opened on the Parker tracts, it seems to be of good workable thick- 

 ness ; and the bed seems to have its greatest size just here, and to be in 

 general little noticeable everywhere else in the neighborhood. 



The "bastard cannel " at the bottom of the upper cannel coal bed, at 

 Peytona, contains numerous fossil shells. 



Main Cannel. — The Main Cannel coal bed had, in 1872, been worked 

 for twenty years or more at the Peytona mines and near them, as well as 

 at the adjacent mines of the Western Mining and Manufacturing Com- 

 pany. Seven measurements of the coal at different parts of the Peytona 

 mines give the following section of the bed from above downward ; 



FT. IN. FT. IN. 



Smooth cannel, 1,, 8 to 2,, 1, average, ^ 



about 1 10 !- 2 6 



Curly (or birds'eye) cannel, 0,, to 1,, 6 8 J 



Bituminous coal, 0„ to 0,, 8 4 4 



2 10 2 10 



After those measurements were made, another part of the mine yielded 



cannel, both kinds together, 3 feet 5 inches thick, the lower 17^ inches 



being curly and the rest all good cannel. 



An opening on the river front of the hillside over Halsted's farm about 



three-quarters of a mile northeast of the mines shows the following section 



from above downward : 



Brownish-gray slate about 



Wild cannel or very bony cannel, or 



cannel slate 



Clay 



Cannel, the lower inch a little mixed 



with bituminous coal 



Coal, bituminous, very hard 



Clay 1 ^ 1 11 



Coal, bituminous, very hard, somewhat 



resembling " curly cannel " 



10 1^ 



In Abshire's Hollow, about half a mile southeast of the mines, the bed 

 is opened, with the following section from above downward : 



Smooth CANNEL 



Coal, hard bituminous 

 Smooth cannel 



