1894.] 



301 



[Lyman. 



outside of the tracts, it appears to be in two or three benches separated by 

 hi3'ers of chiy a foot or even more in thickness. 



Blacksmith Coal. — The Blacksmith Coal at Peytona is so named for 

 its purity and usefulness in the forge, and would seem to be very per- 

 sistently of fine quality, since the same bed is called so in the northern 

 edge of the State. It is, however, probably too thin to work at present, 

 except for local use along the outcrop. 



It was worked by a drift at the lower part of the Peytona mines, and 

 had there the following section from above downward : 



Brownish-gray sand rock about 



Hidden 



Brownish-gray, hard shales, exposed 



Soli shales 



Coal, bituminous 



Bony coal or slate 



Coal, bituminous 



Slate 



Coal, bituminous 



Clay, apparently. 



FT. 



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1 



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The bed was opened also at Abshire's Coal Bank, on Indian Creek near 

 Abshire's Hollow, with the following section from above downward : 



Shaly sand rock, exposed about 



Coal, bituminous, good 



Fireclay, mixed with slate. 



IN. 





 







The same bed is opened, too. in Abshire's Hollow, back of his house, 

 with the following section from above downward : 



Shales, exposed about 



Shaly sand rock " 



Slate " 



Coal, bituminous " 



Fireclay mixed with slate. 



This bed at Lens Creek appears at about twenty feet below Wood's 

 Lower Coal. 



It would seem to be the bed opened in 1873 on Ketcham Branch, near 

 the southeast corner of the map, in two places near together on opposite 



PROG. amer. philos. SCO. xxxiiL 146. 2 m. printed NOV. 22, 1894. 



