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merits in these respects at Peytona gave especial value to the deposit 

 there. 



The Factor}^ Cannel Coal Bed was the most widely known of all the coals 

 on Lens Creek, and is the one formerly worked at the old oil factory on 

 the Left Fork. The section there, at about twenty-five yards inside the 

 middle one of three drifts, is as follows, from above downward : 



Coal, bituminous 



Black slaty clay 



Cannel 



Black iron ore about 



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The bench of cannel however is said to yield only 1 foot 6 inches of 

 good cannel, the rest being " wild cannel " or cannel shale. 



The same bed was imperfectly opened in 1873 nearly opposite Nuby's 

 house on the Left Fork of Lens Creek and had the following section from 

 above downward : 



No solid roof. ft. in. 



Cannel, partly good, partly slaty, all rather poor 



looking about 3 



Black carbonate of iron 3 



Brownish-gray sand rock, at least 20 



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The coal looks rather less pure than the Peytona mine cannel, but that 

 is perhaps owing to its being merely crop-coal. The thickness, too, could 

 not be properly measured without a firm roof. 



The bed was opened also in 1873. near the schoolhouse of the Left Fork, 

 with the following section from above downward : 



FT. IN. FT. IN. 



Shaly sandrock about 



Black clay " 



Coal " 



Black clay , " 



Sand rock " 



Gray shales " 



Black soft slate " 



Coal, bituminous 



Clay 



Co.\L, bituminous 



Bright CANNEL 



Gray slaty clay 



Shaly sand rock about 



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