1881.] ^^1 [Stevenson. 



and the character of tlie rocks filling the interval, No. 6, was not ascer- 

 tained. 



The St. Glair coal bed was seen on Coal branch, Haines' Cabin branch 

 and near the head of Sluss' branch, but no full exposure of the bed was 

 found. It was opened at one time on the J. Bailey property near the head 

 of Haines' Cabin branch, where it is said to have somewhat more than 4 

 feet of coal ; but the opening is wholly filled up and only a few fragments 

 of coal remain to show its place. Distinct blossoms were seen at many 

 places near the divide, but none of them indicates a thickness of more than 

 18 inches. On the St. Clair property near Coal branch, the bed was fully 

 exposed in an excavation for a spring-house and the thickness is said to be 

 2 feet. But only 19 inches were exposed at the time of examination. 



The interval between the St. Clair and Meed coal beds is fairly well ex- 

 posed on a stream leading from the St. Clair house to Coal branch, and 

 contains little aside from sandstone, which varies from massive to more 

 or less flaggy. 



The Heed coal bed was found only on the waters of Sluss' branch and 

 on the Tazewell and McDowell road. Its place is concealed at all other 

 localities examined. The first exposure is on W. L. Reed's property on a 

 fork of Sluss' branch, where 15 inches of coal are shown in the stream-bed, 

 roofed by 10 inches of shale, undei'lying sandstone. The coal is prismatic 

 in structure, rather soft, and contains a good deal of pyrites. An expo- 

 sure on the same property, but on another fork of the stream, shows 2 feet 

 6 inches of coal, separated from the underljang sandstone by a few inches 

 of clay. The blossom of the bed is shown on the Tazewell and McDowell 

 road, which crosses it at barely a mile from the Nelson coal-pit. 



No continuous exposure of the interval to the Tabor coal bed was found, 

 but the whole of it was seen. It is occupied by sandstone almost un- 

 broken by shale. The rock is comparatively fine-grained and shows no 

 pebbles. 



The Tabor coal bed was seen only on Sluss' branch, its horizon being 

 concealed at all other localities examined.. The exposures on Sluss' creek 

 are imperfect, there being no opening in the bed. It was opened at one time 

 on Mr. Tabor's property, but the opening has fallen in and only 1 foot of 

 coal is shown. For 6 inches on top it is hard and bony, but below that, 

 the coal as far as seen is good. The same bed is exposed on another fork 

 of Sluss' branch, on W. L. Reed's property, where 3 feet of good coal 

 were seen. 



The Coal Branch coal bed is best shown on Coal branch at a few yards 

 below the St. Clair crossing, but it is evidently the bed which was once 

 opened on Elkanah Reed's property at the head of one fork of that branch ; 

 it was opened at one time in the bluff OA^erlooking Laurel creek above 

 Mr. Nelson's house, and its blossom is fairly shown in the Tazewell and 

 McDowell road, at a little way from Laurel creek. Six feet of coal are 

 exposed by a little run emptying into Coal branch near the St. Clair 

 crossing, where 4 feet of shale separate the coal from the overlying sand- 



