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nizable, but of the section below the Raleigh sandstone only 416 feet 

 remain. The decrease as compared with Nuttallburg is due largely to 

 loss of the lower part of the section. 



. Near Weeses station, about 10 miles east of north from Cottle knob, 

 the section shows coals at 100, 385, 455-482, and 585 feet below the 

 Stockton. The extremely thin coal at 100 feet is between massive sand- 

 stone, 90 and 110 feet, beginning at 10 feet below the Stockton. The 

 bed at 455-482 feet is the divided Campbells Creek, and that at 585 feet 

 is the Eagle, at 25 feet above the Nuttall sandstone, which forms cliffs 

 along the Laurel fork of Elk river 75 to 100 feet high. Respecting the 

 identification of the Campbells coal bed no doubt exists, as it can be fol- 

 lowed continuously along the Gauley river from the Kanawha to within 

 4 or 5 miles of this locality, where the Kanawha is but 617 feet thick. 

 The upper part of the section is followed easily down Laurel fork to the 

 mouth, and thence up the Middle fork on which, at about 4 miles east 

 from Weeses station, Doctor White's section shows the massive sandstone 

 beginning at 30 feet below the Stockton and exposed for 150 feet, below 

 which exposures are poor to the Campbells Creek coal bed, at 460 feet 

 below the Stockton ; the Eagle is at 560 feet, or 40 feet above the Nut- 

 tall. The exposure is imperfect, and whether or not the Campbell's 

 Creek is double as at the last two localities can not be determined. The 

 thickness of the Kanawha is 607 feet, a decrease of not more than 75 

 feet in 35 miles, from Gilboa on the Fayette-Nicholas border. At this 

 place the Lower Pottsville is 700 feet thick, mostly conglomerates, with 

 several thin coal beds. It has lost 250 feet in 14 miles from Camden- 

 on-Gauley. 



On the north fork of Elk river the Charleston sandstone is conspicuous 

 from the mouth of Middle fork. At 2 miles below Hacker, about 10 

 miles north-northeast from Weeses station, coal beds are shown at 120, 

 230, 415, and 520 feet below the Stockton, the last at 30 feet above the 

 Sharon sandstone, the thickness of Kanawha being 561 feet. The third 

 bed is the Campbells Creek and the fourth the Eagle. The decrease in 

 thickness is above the Campbells Creek. There is much sandstone in 

 the 120 feet interval below the Stockton, and the 6-inch coal bed may be 

 the same with that at 100 feet near Weeses station. 



In southern Randolph county, near Pickens, on the Buckhannon 

 river, 10 miles east from Hackers and 16 miles northeast from the section 

 on Middle fork of Elk river, the Kanawha is 582 feet thick. The massive 

 sandstone is present under the Stockton, with a double coal in it at 

 150 feet down. The coal beds in the section are at 150, 452-479, and 

 569 feet below the Stockton; the double bed at 452-479 represents the 

 Campbells Creek, and the lower division, 3 feet thick, is known locally 



