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through what the workmen thought to be three feet of good 
coal, This discovery created much excitement at the time and 
increased the demand for the public lands in Johnson county. 
It afterward turned out to be the same seam of coal worked 
by Mr. Beaty on the Nemaha and was only 11 inches in thick- 
ness. The prospects, therefore, for workable beds of coal in 
Johnson county are no better than in the neighboring coun- 
ties, already examined. ‘he evidence against any important 
bed of coal being found within the limits of Nebraska dimin- 
ishes in force continually. I have already presented a portion 
of the evidence in former reports. The fact that all efforts in 
searching for coal in neighboring districts have resulted in fail- 
ures, renders the prospect very doubtful.” 
All the rocks at St. Joseph, Missouri, Leavenworth and 
Atchison, Kansas, hold a lower position geologically, yet 
rings have been made about 300 to 500 feet at Atchison 
ting the past season. It has been accurately determined 
that rocks of the Carboniferous period occupy onl 
portion of South Eastern Nebraska, and that these rocks are 
of the age of the upper Coal-measures, Permo-Carboniferous 
lan,* 
*'The true Permian may not occur in Nebraska. If it does, it is found only in 
