THE BLOUNT MOUNTAIN COAL FIELD. 37 



COAL, hard bright cubical ....................... 9 inches. 



Clay parting ..................................... 1 inch. 



COAL, hard lustrous ............................ 14 inches. 



Fire clay bluish gray .............................. 2 feet. 



In parts of this tunnel there were 27 inches of coal, but it 

 again diminished to 23 inches. 



An opening in S. 17, T. 14, R 2 east, gave nearly the same 

 section coal 20 inches. 



Two openings on the same seam on the east side of S. 11, 

 T. 14, R. 1 east, gave this section : 



Roof: shale ....................................... 4 feet. 



COAL, good. .................................... 8 inches. 



S7/(/7e, parting .................................... 1 inch. 



COAL, good .................................... 12 inches. 



Fin: 



This seam was not opened or traced further toward the 

 southwest, but it probably extends in that direction as far, 

 at least, as the divide between the Blackburn Warrior, and 

 Canoe Creek drainage. 



In a northeast direction from the Aderholt mine this seam 

 is found on the east fork of Difficulty Creek, a little above 

 its junction with the west fork, and is known as the Hnllrft 

 Seam. On Coal Bod In-arch, in S. TV. j of S. 34, T. 13, R 2 

 east, it was long ago opened and known as the Lowe Scum. 

 On the X. E. \ of same section, on the west prong of Saml 

 ( 'r-l- it is called the Garner Stain. And in the X. E. of S. 

 TV. of S. 26, same township, at the Old Brasher Mill seat 

 on Di'-ftrinnii Creek, it was exposed at the side of the creek 

 and known as the Bm*]i> ^ /.It is not seen and has not 

 been opened on the divide between the Blackburn river 

 basin and the Locust Eork basin, but is again found in the 

 latter on Hurricane Creek, below Buttermilk Falls, near the 

 junction of the east and west branches of the creek in S. TV. 

 of S. 32, T. 12, E. 3 east. .Its outcrop here showed 23 

 inches of solid coal, with surroundings similar to the sec- 

 tions already given, Farther to the northeast its outcrop is 

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