West Virginia 173 



a little more than 4 miles northwest from Catlettsburg, Coal 6 distinctly 

 overlies the Ferriferous limestone. The dip to Catlettsburg is about 26 

 feet per mile. Two miles east from Catlettsburg, at Kenova, West Vir- 

 ginia, Doctor White found a thin bed in the river bank, which, judging 

 from the dip, must be Kentucky coal 7.* 



Central City, in Cabell county of West Virginia, is 6 miles eastward 

 from Catlettsburg. The record of a deep well bored there is given by 

 Doctor White 



Feet 



1. Clay, etc 26 



2. Shale, sand, lime 94 



3. Limestone 7 



4. Slate, fireclay veins 98 



5. Sand, fine 25 



6. Slate 50 



7. Sand with gas 30 



8. Black slate , 10 



9. Sand, gray 60 



10. Black slate 10 



11. Sand, gray , 85 



12. Slate, white, blue 25 



13. Sand, limestone 20 



14. Slate , . . ■ 20 



15. Black slate 175 



16. Gray sand [Sharon] 25 



17. Slates with coal 2 feet, black, blue 105 



18. Sand, gray, black 40 



19. Black slate 30 



to the first limestone and 35 feet above the great mass of limestone 150 

 feet thick.f 



The limestone, number 3, at 203 feet above the black slate, number 8, 

 shows that the latter is in the place of Kentucky coal 6, for the Ken- 

 tucky sections along the Ohio and Sandy rivers show that limestone at 

 about 200 feet above the coal. The interval to the Sharon sandstone, 

 number 16, is 395 feet, or practically the same as at Catlettsburg. The 

 Lower Pottsville is 200 feet, or 235 feet thick, if the whole of the black 

 shale to the great limestone is to be included. The double sandstone, 

 numbers 5 and 7, represents the Charleston sandstone. Doctor White 

 states that the " Pittsburg " coal bed is about 340 feet above the mouth 

 of the well, or 670 feet above the black shale, number 8. If this shale 



*M. R. Campbell : Huntingdon folio. 



A. R. Crandall : Report on Greenup, etc., sec. 81. 



I. C. White : Bull. no. 65, p. 158. 

 fl. C White : West Virginia Geol. Survey, vol. i, p. 275 ; Bull. no. 65, p. 135, 



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