KENTUCKY 107 



Feet. Inches 



12. Silicious limestone 2 



13. Massive sandstone 20 



14. Shale and coal 7 



15. Sandstone and shale 40 



16. Massive sandstone 10 



17. Coal , 5 2 



18. Concealed and sandstone 45 



19. Silicious limestone. 2 



20. In boring 320 



Number 17 is the Warfield coal bed. The interval to number 2 is 249 

 feet, about 40 feet more than at the west side of Martin county, showing 

 that here is the increasing thickness of the section which becomes so 

 marked in West Virginia. The Warfield coal bed, as will be seen, is the 

 same with the Campbells Creek coal bed of the Kanawha valley, where 

 one finds associated with it the limestone bands and lenticular masses 

 such as characterize the horizon throughout a great part of Kentucky. 

 A well record obtained in Mingo county of West Virginia, opposite War- 

 field, shows a coal bed, reported as 5 feet, at somewhat more than 100 

 feet below the Warfield coal bed, which is evidently the little bed ob- 

 served in so many places by Lyon and Crandall. This record shows 

 also a great change in the upper portion of the Rockcastle, for in 320 feet 

 below this coal bed only two beds of sandstone appear, 18 and 20 feet 

 thick. Below this for nearly 400 feet, sandstone predominates, but no 

 trace of coal appears in the record. 



Doctor White gives a section near Peach Orchard, in Lawrence county 

 which is very similar to that at Warfield. The " Peach Orchard coa. 

 bed " is at 267 feet above the Warfield, the increase being very largely 

 in the interval answering to numbers 3, 4, and 5 of the Warfield sec- 

 tion. This Peach Orchard coal bed is regarded by Professor Crandall 

 as the Coal 3 of the Kentucky section, and at Peach Orchard it is about 

 420 feet below the first Fossiliferous limestone. At Peach Orchard, as 

 at Warfield, a sandstone overlies this coal bed which is very suggestive 

 of that underlying Coal 4 in counties farther south. 



The conglomerate at 250 feet above the Mercer coal bed is widespread 

 through Johnson and Martin counties. It is somewhat more than 450 

 feet above the Sharon and immediately overlies a bed of cannel. Mr 

 Lyon is inclined to identify it with the conglomerate which in so many 

 places within Greenup and Carter counties overlies the Ferriferous 

 limestone. The intervals have been increasing across the intervening 

 counties, so that there is a probability that Mr Lyon's suggestion is a 

 true one; but sections fail in Lawrence and much of Johnson, so the 



