TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Letter of Transmittal 5 



The Blount Mountain Coal Field 7 



SECTION I. Introductory 7 



General Outlines and Structure 8 



The Interior Anticlinal 10 



Drainage 11 



Sub-Divisions 12 



Blackburn River Basin 12 



The Locust Fork Basin 12 



The Calvert Fork Basin..' 12 



Area 13 



Vertical Measures of Straight Mountain 13 



SECTION II. The Lower, or Sub-Conglomerate Coal Measures. . 15 



General Section of Sub-Conglomerate Measures. 18 



SECTION III. The Upper, or True Coal Measures 19 



The First Conglomerate 19 



The Second Conglomerate 20 



The Third Conglomerate 22 



The Fourth Conglomerate '22 



Exploration of the Field 23 



General Section of the Super-Conglomerate Meas- 

 ures 28 



SECTION IV. Detailed Description of the Coal Seams 31 



Peacock Seam 31 



Caskie Seam 32 



Howard Seam 34 



Lowe, Hullett, Garner Seam 36 



Sand Creek Seam No. 1 . 39 



Sand Creek Seam No. 2 39 



Holt, or Big Seam 39 



Supposed Waide Seam 40 



Murray Seam 41 



Ivy Hole Seam 44 



Jourdan Seam 44 



Adkins Spring Seam 45 



Adkins Seam, Clements Seam 45 



Mace Murphree Seam 47 



Farley Seam 48 



Series of thin unnamed seams 48 



Fossiliferous or Guide Seam, Haynes Seam 49 



Armstrong Seam 50 



Woodward Seam 53 



Phillips Seam, Lower Baine Seam 56 



Games, Paine, Smith, Gaither Seam 59 



Unnamed Seam 62 



Bynum Seam 63 



Top Seam 66 



SECTION V. Unsettled questions 67 



Waide Gap Seam 68 



Allgood Gap Seam 69 



Cowden Seam 69 



Equivalent of Brock Seam 72 



Quantity of Available Coal 73 



Summary of Chemical Analysis of Coals 75 



