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on the east side of Bee Eidge, and crossing the upper 

 branches of the Locust Fork and branches of Pole Creek, 

 about a mile northwest of the top of the second conglomer- 

 ate. It was also opened at Harris' coal bed, in N. E. of S. 

 E. of S. 15, T. 12, E. 3 east. 



COAL SEAM No. . On Hurricane Creek where it passes 

 through Bee Ridge, in southwest of S. 32, T. 12, E. 3 east, 

 near to the out-crop of Coal Seam No. 4, and 30 to 40 feet 

 higher, is a Coal Seam, which is not given in the GENERAL 

 SECTION, because it was not found elsewhere, though reported 

 to exist also on Dearmon Creek, at a similar height above 

 the Brasher Seam. 



What the thickness, or importance of this seam may be, 

 are matters of conjecture ; its out-crop is beneath a heavy 

 impending bluff which would crush it far below the normal 

 thickness at the edge of the seam, even if it were not other- 

 wise reduced by weathering. It shows this 



SECTION. 



Solid reddish cap rock, flaggy in upper part 20 ft. 



COAL, good ft. 6 in. 



Shale parting ft. 2 in. 



COAL, good ft. 6 in. 



Fire clay 1 ft. 6 in. 



Clay Slate, with nodules of clay ironstone 6 ft. 



Over this seam there is no covering of slate, but the coal 

 is in immediate contact with the massive cap rock. It is a 

 little wavy, and irregular in thickness, but this probably 

 results from the unequal pressure of the overlying bluff. 



That there may be other seams existing between Coal 

 Seams Nos. 3 and 4 is very probable. They are over one 

 mile apart, surface measure, and separated by nearly 800 feet 

 of vertical strata. That all this mass of measures should be 

 destitute of coal is improbable, but as yet no evidences of 

 any have been discovered in this space. 



