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glomerate, 125 feet thick, beneath which there is evidently a 

 seam of coal ; coaly, or bituminous shale, 4 feet thick, is ex- 

 posed here. This is believed to be the outcrop of the 

 Howard seam. Also, in section 9, same township, near the 

 railroad track, a seam 20 inches thick is exposed in the rail- 

 road cut, which is provisionally considered to be the same. 

 On the southeastern edge of Bristow's Cove the evidence of 

 this seam was observed about 60 feet above the Caskie seam, 

 and beneath the coarse disintegrated conglomerate which 

 makes the top of the bluff, or eastern rim of the cove. It 

 has not been opened anywhere on this si^e of the field, but 

 though closer to the Caskie seam than on the other side of 

 the field, no doubt is entertained of the identity of this 

 and the Howard seam. 



Like the other seams lying between the first and second 

 conglomerates, this seam is not found on the northwestern 

 side of the field at any place southwest of the Locust Fork 

 of the Warrior River. 



The Lowe, Hullett, Garner seam, No. 4, of the General 

 Section, is the first known seam above the Second Conglom- 

 erate. It has long been known and highly esteemed for its 

 uniformly excellent quality of coal. It is a very persistent 

 seam, and bears throughout an almost uniform thickness of 

 23 inches. The quality of its coal very closely resembles 

 the Black Creek seam of the Warrior Coal Field, but it does 

 not occupy the same geological position. In a few places it 

 has been seen only 21 inches thick, in others 26, and more 

 rarely 30 inches. Over most of this field this is a solid seam 

 of coal, but toward the southwestern end it has a small clay 

 parting near the top. Mr. D. Aderholt has had some mining 

 done by tunneling on this seam, in the W. J of S. 4, T. 14, 

 E. 2 east, and his opening gives the following 



SECTION : 



Flaggy reddish colored sand rock 15 feet. 



Heavy shale 6 feet. 



Blue slaty clay 5 feet. 



