﻿ECONOMIC 
  GEOLOGY. 
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  vania 
  and 
  New 
  York, 
  and 
  what 
  coal 
  has 
  been 
  discovered 
  in 
  the 
  

   latter 
  state 
  is 
  in 
  older 
  formations 
  which 
  do 
  not 
  contain 
  this 
  

   valuable 
  mineral 
  in 
  commercial 
  quantities. 
  Many 
  thousands 
  of 
  

   dollars 
  have 
  been 
  spent 
  in 
  fruitless 
  efforts 
  to 
  obtain 
  coal 
  in 
  New 
  

   York, 
  but 
  year 
  after 
  year 
  men 
  appear 
  in 
  the 
  field 
  who 
  seem 
  

   anxious 
  to 
  pay 
  for 
  their 
  own 
  experience. 
  It 
  can 
  not 
  be 
  too 
  

   strongly 
  urged 
  upon 
  the 
  attention 
  of 
  the 
  people 
  of 
  the 
  state 
  that 
  

   it 
  is 
  absolutely 
  useless 
  to 
  seek 
  for 
  coal 
  in 
  New 
  York. 
  

  

  Coal. 
  Woodstock, 
  Ulster 
  county, 
  thin 
  vein 
  in 
  the 
  Catskill, 
  

   worked 
  out; 
  in 
  seams 
  interstratified 
  with 
  shale, 
  in 
  Chautauqua, 
  

   Erie, 
  Livingston 
  and 
  Seneca 
  counties. 
  

  

  Lignite, 
  brown 
  coal. 
  Near 
  Rossville^ 
  Staten 
  Island, 
  thin 
  seam 
  

   in 
  clay; 
  also 
  in 
  Suffolk 
  county 
  in 
  clays. 
  

  

  