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Shoot Coal. — The Shoot Coal Bed, at Peytona, is so-called from the 

 opening near the foot of the shoot at the mines. The opening was closed 

 and no longer accessible in 1872, but was said to have had the following 

 section from above downward : 



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Coal, bituminous, good, hard 10 



Slate 1^ 



Coal, bituminous, good, very hard, "breaks almost 



like anthracite" 2 6^ 



3 6 



The same bed is also said to have been opened a great many years ago, 

 by Dr. DuBois, above the Blacksmith Bank, and found to have a thick- 

 ness of over 4 feet, besides 3 inches of slate at 10 inches below the top. 



The bed was opened In 1872, in Abshire's Hollow, opposite Abshire's 

 house, with the following section from above downward : 



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No solid roof. 



Coal, bituminous 2 10 



Coal, ' ' splint, ' ' or bony 6 



The bed was likewise opened in 1872, on Indian Creek, about 300 yards 

 above Abshire house, and 50 yards below the mouth of Meadow's Fork of 

 Indian Creek, and had the following section from above downward : 



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Gray shales. 



Soft black slate about 1 



Coal, bituminous 9 ^ 



Slate 3i ^ 3 7 



Coal, bituminous 2 6^ J 



On Lens Creek, the coal bed of Wood's lower mine (a drift some 20 feet 

 long), on King's Branch of the Left Fork, is the same as the Peytona Shoot 

 Coal Bed, and has the following section from above downward : 



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Solid sand rock exposed .about 4 



Coal, bituminous 1 ~| 



Slate or clay about Oj 



Coal, bituminous 1 7 }■ 3 8 



Shvte or clay about 0^ | 



Coal, bituminous 1 J 



