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in a crusli of loose rocks ; and near Asa Ferrel's, on the Right Fork of 

 Lens Creeli, where less than a foot cf crop coal lias been uncovered. 



This coal bed is clearly the same as the bed formerly worked at the 

 Wiuifrede Coal Co. 's main mine, less than a mile east of the main Parker 

 tract. That mine was still accessible in 1872, with a little difficulty, and 

 near the mouth of the drift gave the following section from above down- 

 ward : 



Brownish-gray, massive sand rock. about 



Slate 



Brownish-gray, massive sand rock 



Slate 



Coal, bituminous, firm and good 



Clay 



Coal, bituminous, firm and good 



Shale , exposed about 



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The quality of the coal, as well as the slate or clay parting, is extremely 

 like what is found at the opening on Wood's Lower Bed (the Peytona 

 Shoot Bed), near the schoolhouse of the Left Fork of Lens Creek, and at 

 Fry's Coal Bank on Ketcham Branch and at other points. The identity 

 was evidently recognized by Prof. Hall forty years ago. 



The coal of Wood's Lower Bed on Lens Creek seems all to be of very 

 fine quality, richer in gas than Wood's Upper Coal and somewhat less 

 firm than that, though still very firm and capable of bearing handling 

 ver}' well. It is much liked as a domestic coal, and would probably be 

 a good gas coal. It is unquestionably the same as the one of the Wini- 

 frede mines, the coal of which bears a very high reputation ; and is prob- 

 ably the same in quality, since those mines are within a mile of the 

 easiern edge of the main Parker tract. Besides, as already pointed out, 

 the resemblance is very strong indeed. 



The Winifrede Coal was supposed in 1873 to be also the same as the 

 bed of the Coalburg mines, a couple of miles more distant up the 

 Kanawha ; but, in spite of the resemblance of the structure of the two 

 beds and the quality of the coals and other arguments. Prof. White 

 (Bulletin 65, p. 162), says that the Winifrede is seventy-five or one hun- 

 dred feet lower than the Coalburg coal, reckoning from the Kanawlia 

 black flint. In that case it would seem that the Coalburg bed must be 

 the same as Wood's Upper Coal, the Upper cannel of Peytona ; but the 

 distance apart in these two surveys is about one hundred and twenty 

 feet, a difference hard to reconcile. The Shoot Bed of Peytona, Wood's 

 Lower Bed of Lens Creek, seems hereabouts to be the most uniform in 

 thickness and in quality of all the coals below the barren measures, and 

 to be everywhere a very excellent, firm, bituminous coal and of workable 

 thickness wherever it has been fully opened. Towards the Kanawha, 



