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unnecessary to resort to chemical analysis for further information, and 

 the enterprise was abandoned. 



Near Weston, in Lewis county, this coal is said to occur in the bed of 

 West Fork River, which is very probable, as the river cuts through the 

 Laurel Hill anticlinal north from Weston. Following this anticlinal 

 northward, we find it rapidly increasing in sharpness, so that at Valley 

 Falls, where it is cut by Tygart's River, the Great Conglomerate is in 

 the bed of the stream, and the Mahoning Sandstone barely crosses the 

 crest unbroken. Near this point, at Nuzum's Mills, probably forty miles 

 from Weston, the following section of the Lower Coal Group is ob- 

 tained:* 



Ft. hi. 



1. Sandstone 60 



2. Goal 3 



3. Sandstone 30 



4. Limestone 3 



5. Sandstone 30 



6. Goal, U. Freeport 5-6 



7. Sandstone 45 



8. Goal 2 



9. Fire-clay, compact 1 



10. Sandstone and shale 65 



11. Gual 6 



12. Shale 15 



13. Goal , 0-8 



14. Fire-clay, compact 8 to 6 



15. Iron ore 2 to 6 



16. Shale 15 



17. Great Conglomerate 



Total 



The Upper Freeport here shows, Cannel, 1 ft.; Bituminous Goal, 4 to 

 5 ft. It is somewhat inferior owing to the presence of much sulphur, 

 but is a good strong fuel. On Prickett's Creek, in the same county 

 (Marion), the cannel is at the bottom, and in greater quantity. Exten- 

 sive arrangements were made here, years ago, for distilling oil from the 

 coal, but the discovery of petroleum brought the enterprise to premature 

 dissolution. On Booth's Creek, in Monongalia county, some old open- 

 ings are still accessible. One a little way north from the creek shows : 

 Clay, 1 ft.; Goal, 1 ft. 11 in.; Clay, 8 in.; Coal, 2 ft. 9 in.; Clay, 2^ in.; 



Goal, 1 ft. 1 in. 



A deserted opening near the old fiirnace on this stream gives: 

 Cannel, 1ft.; Carbonaceous shale, 11 in.; Coal, slaty, 4in. ; Clay, 7in. ; 

 Goal, 2 in. ; Clay, 4 in. ; Goal, seen, 4 ft. 



* This section and the remaining notes on the Upper Freeport Coal were dropped by 

 the printer in making up my previous paper on West Virginia. 



