THE BLOUNT MOUNTAIN COAL FIELD. 39 



COAL SEAM No. o " : " is also known as the San' I (.'n-t.-k Seam 

 No. 1. It does not give promise of being a seam of much 

 importance. It was cut on the bottom lands, and in the bed 

 of Sand Creek in S. 27, T. 13, E. 2 east, and on the hills 

 facing the eastern Branch of Sand Creek, coal soft and 

 brittle, seam about 2 feet thick, not used. It was also found 

 in southeast of northeast of S. 31, T. 12, R. 3 east, in the 

 Locust Fork Basin. Its position is about 315 feet above the 

 G'trn-r. Seam No. 4, of the General Section. 



About 130 feet above the Sand Creek seam No. 1 is found 

 the San'J Cwk S<-.<uii No. 2, No. 6 of the General Section, 

 It carries good coal, but is a thin, and consequently unim- 

 portant seam, cut in southeast corner of S. 21, T. 13, K. 2 east. 



Eighty feet above Sand Creek Seam No. 2 is the Holt, or 

 Big Sea i it, No. 7 of the (j .^--dion. The out-crop of this 



seam was found only in the bed of the Blackburn Fork, and in 

 deep water in Dearmon Creek. It could not be tested, or 

 exposed by digging above water level, nor could samples of 

 its coal be obtained for analysis. Testing was done by drill- 

 ing through the seam, the record of which gave the follow- 

 ing detailed 



SECTION. 



Roof, clay slate ............................ 5 feet. 



COAL ...................................... foot 4 in. 



Clay Slate ................................ 1 foot 5 in. 



COAL ...................................... foot 3 in. 



Clay ...................................... 1 foot 5 in. 



COAL ...................................... 1 foot 6 J in. 



Eock parting .............................. 2 feet in. 



Slate and Coni .............................. 1 foot 3 in. 



and Clay .............................. foot 6 in. 



COAL, hard ......... ........................ 1 foot 6J in. 



* No. 5 is called in the vicinity, the L'jjprr Sand Creek seam, and 

 No. 6 the Lfjirrr .Sand Creek seam, but as these names give a false 

 idea of their relative position, we have substituted the names Sand 

 Creek Seams No. 1 and No. 2. 



