siete] 500 [April 2t,, 
At (0) the same sandrock is equally folded and unbroken, as the follow- 
ing diagram (looking in the opposite direction, 7. ¢. east) will explain. 
Here, also, the bed, which when doubled measures 5 or 6 feet thick, 
is really but a three-foot bed. There is nothing, in fact, to identify it 
with the ‘‘Six-foot’’ coal of Wise County. But it may very well be the 
6.7 coal 
at(b) 
on Middle Cr. 
Russell Co. 
Va. 
It is opened again at (¢) some hundred yards higher up the creek, and 
ona north dip of 50°. The Confederate army mined it pretty exten- 
sively. It is here three feet thick, in three benches each a foot thick. 
The top and bottom benches good, the middle bench bony. Over it are 
three or four feet of slates, and then comes a one-foot bed of bony coal. 
The report goes that the miners found these two coal beds close together, 
down. below ; making thus one very fair fowr-foot coal bed. A diagram 
on the next page shows the whole exposure in position, 
All this is not very encouraging for the coal trade. But the same bed 
has been opened at (d), directly on the crest of the anticlinal, which has. 
here sunk (running in an easterly direction) to the level of the creek. Here 
