Lyman.] d\)± [Nq^ 2, 



The same bed is also worked by Gus. Hoffman, on the Vinnie Lick 

 Branch of the Right Fork of Lens Creek, and has there the following sec- 

 tion from above downward : 



FT. IN. 



Coal, bituminous 



Clay 



Coal, bituminous 



3 6^ 



The bed has been worked, too, by a drift on the opposite (west) side 

 of the Right Fork of Lens Creek, back of Gus. Hoffman's house, and has 

 there the following section from above downward : 



FT. IN. 



Brownish-gray shaly sand rock about 8 



Shales with iron nodules 1 6 



Coal, bituminous 2 1 



11 7 



The bed was imperfectly opened on the Right Fork of Lens Creek, oppo- 

 site the mouth of Orchard Hollow and a quarter of a mile above the 

 mouth of Vinnie Lick Branch, and had the following section from above 

 downward : 



FT. IN. 



Shaly sand rock with some nodules of impure iron 

 ore about 6 



Coal, bituminous, good, but much weathered, at 

 least about 1 9^ 



Dark shales 5 



12 9| 



Haifa foot of the top of the coal bed is exposed under the shales near 

 Mr. Hoffman's, opposite the mouth of Big Hollow, on the Right Fork of 

 Lens Creek. 



The bed was opened in 1872 in Locust Hollow near the east bank of the 

 Right Fork of Lens Creek, and had the following section from above down- 

 ward : 



FT. IN. FT. IN. 



Clay shales, no solid roof. 2 



Coal, bituminous, mostly hard and good. 1 6| ■> 



Clay 1 [ 3 Oi 



Coal, bony 6 i 



5 0^ 



Another imperfect trial pit on the same bed, some twenty yards to the 

 south, gave about the same measurements, but some of the lower bench 

 seemed to be like cannel. 



