THE BLOUNT MOUNTAIN COAL FIELD. 45 



SECTION : 



Cap rock, heavy bedded sand rocks ..8 feet 



Slate and shale 2 feet 



COAL .-./.. 7 inches 



Slate parting 3 inches 



COAL 1 foot 5 inches 



Fire clay. 



It was expected that this would develop into a workable 

 seam. The coal was evidently of good quality, but further 

 development did not show any increase in the thickness of 

 the seam ; and at other openings made on it farther to the 

 southwest the seam was thinner and less promising than on 

 Jourdan Creek. It may be increased in volume towards the 

 northeast, and in the divide between the Blackburn and 

 Locust Fork basins, but in the latter it was found to be a 

 thin seam. 



Eighty feet above the Jourdan Seam is the Adkins Spring 

 Seam No. 12 of the General Section. It is a thin and unim- 

 portant seam. The intervening strata generally above and 

 below it are thin bedded, flaggy sandstone, with intercalated 

 beds of clay slate. 



Eighty feet above No. 12 is the Adl'ins Seam No. 13 of the 

 General Section. 



This seam w r as partly exposed in the bed of the Blackburn 

 Fork of the Little Warrior. It had long been known, and 

 its coal was highly appreciated. But all the coal taken out 

 here for years past was out of the upper bench of the seam, 

 which alone was known to exist. An examination made 

 here by the Geological Survey showed that the clay beneath 

 this coal had not the characteristics of ?///'/'/ /. /<///, but of a 

 clay parting in a coal seam. The drill was applied and the 

 lower and most important portion of the seam discovered. 

 Location in N. E. of N. TV. of S. 22, T. 13 South, R. 2 East. 



This seam gives the following 



