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Cumberland and other points on the Potomac, and the same Lake Supe- 
rior ores via Pittsburgh, to mix with same iron ores which lie in the hill- 
sides of Castleman’s river and Laurel Hill Creek. 
Two other coal beds range through the property. The Kittanning bed 
100 feet lower down the hillsides than the six foot; and the Ferriferous 
bed, nearly at water level. Two other small seams of coal exist in the 
hill tops, belonging to the middle or upper part of the Barren Measures, 
under the Pittsburgh Coal Bed. 
The Kittanning Bed averages 2} feet, and is best opened at Ursina. 
This bed outcrops all around the hill sides, north of Ursina; but goes 
beneath water level of Minder’s Creek, two-thirds of a mile up from its 
mouth. It outcrops all the way up the North fork. 
A thirty inch coal bed is opened at the Rush Bank, 14 miles above 
the mouth of Brown’s Creek, (fig. 1), 25 feet above the water of the 
North fork (Laurel Hill Creek). This bed underlies the Six Foot about 
100 feet, and is the Kittanning coal bed. It shows 80 inches of good 
hard coal, with 15 inches over it of slate mixed with thin coal seams, 
anda roof of soft shales, requiring careful timbering. Its floor is a mas- 
sive sandrock, without a particle of intervening fireclay. The bed has only 
been stripped at its outcrop ; but yields cubical masses of very firm coal. 
This is the usual Cannel and Block Coal bed of the country. 
The Ferriferous Bed, (so called, not because it carries, itself, any 
iron, but because it always comes into the measures just above a lime- 
stone which is called ferriferous because it carries on its upper surface 
the great iron ore deposite of north west Pennsylvania, especially in Clar- 
ion, Venango and Armstrong Counties), averages 23 feet, and lies just 
above water level at Ursina. It sinks beneath water level going west, 
down the fork. It has been opened, also on the property, at the mouth of 
May’s Creek, and at the mouth of Brown’s Creek, on both banks of the 
creek. On the north bank 25 inches of coal is visible, with a 3 inch slate 
parting. On the south bank 20 inches of coal, 8 inches slate, 5 inches of 
coal; roof, 2 feet of iron-stained shales supporting 380 or 40 feet of sand- 
stone; floor, hard slate; under this, a thick bed of fire-clay, containing 
nodules of iron ore; under this, limestone, said to be 18 inches thick. 
The bed is not thick, but its quality of coal is good; the mineral com- 
ing out in solid blocks, and apparently adapted for the iron manufacture. 
Mr. Frazer has made two analyses of it, with the following results : 
Now, | No. 2. || Mean. 
Volatile matters and water...... Live i 17.18 bs a Tae 
Widtet PONG Site is eed d : 0.80 
Bisted: Carpom ee 68.20 68 87 68.585 
ASO ei a Aree 14.68 14.00 14.34 
Another specimen taken from the Widow Croll’s bank, near the mouth 
of Brown’s Creek, shows the same character of this lower coal, above the 
limestone; equally free from water and sulphur as the Six Foot bed; more 
gas (equal to Alleghany Mountain Coal in this particular); a large quan- 
tity of ash; and 3-5ths of it coke, 
