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The Ferriferous coal is opened also at the head of Smith’s Creek, on 
both banks of the creek. On the south side a pile of half burned lime, 
shows how strongly ferruginous the limestone stratum is. On the north 
side, the outcrop exposed by digging, shows two feet of coal, the upper 
foot slaty; 1 foot of clay, with nodules of ore, in the roof; over this 
again 1 foot of sandstone ; then one foot of dark slate ; then a heavy 
sandstone. The floor is a thick bed of fireclay, the upper 8 or 4 feet beins 
closely filled with nodules of iron ore. 
At the base of the Ramsberger Hill and on Boge’s Creek, at the north 
end of the property, this coal, and another bed 30 feet below it, (see sec- 
tion fig. 4), apparently 24 to 86 inches thick each, and mixed with 
slate, occur again, and no lower measures are visible anywhere. The 
conglomerate at the base of the coal measures is just underneath them 
the same which may be seen in the gap below Confluence, making a great 
arch in the mountain. 
The fire clay under the ferriferous coal is usually about 4 feet thick. 
The Ferriferous Limestone shows about 18 inches thick on the east bank 
of the North fork, but its general thickness Ido not know. It is thesame 
deposit which on the Slippery-rock and Beaver River country furnishes 
the soda-lime for the Pittsburgh works. On Smith’s creek the farmers 
have tried to burn this limestone for use, but failed, and the calcined 
fragments show that it contains much iron, and may, therefore, make 
a superior blast furnace flux. 
This bed underlies the country about water level, and is very con- 
sistent with the character given above. At Ursina it shows the same 
slate-parting near the bottom, and the same underlying beds of fire 
clay, iron ore and limestone. It will probably play an important part 
in the future development of the Turkey foot district. 
A small (2 inch) layer of nodules of iron ore occurs about 65 feet 
above water level at Ursina, but it is, of course, worthless at this point. 
A small coal bed outcrops 127 feet above the Six Foot bed, over the 
Krieger bank. 
One of the limestones of the upper part of the barren measures comes 
in, between 475 and 525 feet above water level, near the summit of Min- 
der’s Hill, and extends through the hill tops of the property west of 
the North fork. Itis at least 5 feet thick, and ferruginous. 
About 100 feet below this limestone is a thin coal vein, very slaty, and 
good for nothing. There is also a bed of coal-slate 40 feet under this up- 
per limestone. 
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