1894.] 305 [Lyman. 



The same bed is at least partially exposed where it finally passes south- 

 ward beneath the bottom of the valley of the Right Fork of Lens Creek, at 

 the mouth of Rise Hollow. The coal there is partially concealed by 

 muddy water and perhaps rubbish in the hole, but would seem to be only 

 1,, 6 or two feet thick, with only two feet of wash for a cover. The wash 

 is stripped off, and the coal dug out. The coal is firm and in large lumps, 

 bituminous, of good quality and much liked by the country people. 



The coal at Jerrold's, Hoflfman's, Nuby's and Myer's mines, and at 

 Rise Hollow is of good quality, but not equal to Wood's Upper and Lower 

 coals. It is less firm, especial)}' the upper six inches, than either of them ; 

 but the greater part of the bed is far from being tender. The quality in 

 fact seems to be on the whole pretty fair. The thickness would seem to 

 be rather variable, and it may prove to be unworkable at present in some 

 parts of the tracts. It not only disappears at Peytona, but on the Kanawha 

 above Brownstown would seem to be hardly of workable thickness, or 

 only two feet and a half, though worked a little at some points. 



Vicker's Coal.— Opposite the mouth of Vicker's Branch, on the Left 

 Fork of Lens Creek, at the lower end of the eight drifts on the Jerrold Coal, 

 there are two old drifts on a coal, a dozen or fifteen feet lower ; and, for 

 want of a more suitable name, it may be called Vicker's Coal. The coal 

 is no longer exposed for measuremeut here ; but seems to have been per- 

 haps two feet thick. 



The same bed was worked at an old drift about fifteen feet below 

 Jerrold's old coal opening on the Left Fork of Lens Creek, two hundred 

 and fifty yards below the mouth of Ketcham Branch. There also the 

 drift has fallen in so as to be inaccessible and leave the coal unexposed. 

 The thickness seemed to have been perhaps two feet. 



The bed may probably be the same as the one exposed at Peytona, 

 nine feet below the top of the waterfall below the lower shoot. It has 

 there the following section from the top of the waterfall downward : 



Brownish-gray sand rock, very cross-bedded. 

 Coal, bituminous 



Brownish-gray sand rock (?) 



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It is probable that the coal bed was of greater thickness than that, at 

 the drifts on Lens Creek, or it would not have been opened for working 

 at all ; but as it seems to have been little worked compared with the 

 Jerrold Coal just above it, there is no probability that it was more than 

 the two feet thick it seems to have been. 



It is barely possible that the coal of Mitchel's old drifts on Lens 

 Creek just above the mouth of Ketcham Branch may be the Vicker's bed ; 

 and it was so supposed probable in 1873 ; but in that case it would have 



