182 J. J. STEVENSON — CARBONIFEftOTJS OF APPALACHIAN BASIN 



The coal bed, number 4, is the Stockton, as the boring begins in the 

 Charleston sandstone, which here is 250 feet thick. The great mass of 

 sandstone underlying the coal is the same with that observed in Web- 

 ster, Nicholas, and Randolph counties. The underlying coal beds of 

 other sections have disappeared or are represented by carbonaceous 

 matter distributed through black shale at 230, 380, 475, 555, and 700 

 feet below the Stockton, no one of which, except that at 475, can be 

 correlated with any bed at Charleston. In view of the thickening of 

 the measures, it is quite possible that that shale may represent the Camp- 

 bells Creek horizon. It is very near the place of that coal bed, on the 

 middle fork of Elk, 15 miles southeast, in Webster county. The dis- 

 tance from Stockton to Lower Carboniferous is 1,264 feet, about 200 feet 

 greater than at Charleston, more nearly that to be expected on the Ka- 

 nawha, at 7 or 8 miles above Charleston. 



Where the Stockton coal bed comes today at 21 miles above Sutton, 

 the interval to the first coal is 152 feet 6 inches, very largely concealed, 

 but containing some massive sandstone. A second coal bed, also a 

 double bed, is at 15 feet lower, the intervals being 155 and 175 feet. At 

 3 miles east-northeast from Sutton these beds are shown again and 

 somewhat thinner. Massive sandstone is present below the Stockton, as 

 well as below the lowest bed, the lower division of the sandstone being 

 exposed for 40 feet or to 240 feet below the Stockton. The Upper Free- 

 port (Mason) coal bed is present at the latter locality, 135 feet above the 

 Stockton.* 



Near Wildcat, in the southern panhandle of Lewis county and 10 miles 

 northeast from the last, Doctor White obtained a measurement of the 

 Kanawha. Here one is about 8 miles north from the Hacker locality in 

 northern Webster. The section isf 



Feet. Inches. Feet 



1. [Stockton] coal bed 12 9 



2. Sandstone and concealed 125 



3. Coal bed Blossom 



4. Concealed 80 



5. Coal bed Blossom 



6. Concealed and sandstone 175 



7. Coal bed . . Blossom 



8. Sandstone 20 



9. Shale and concealed 25 



10. Interval 30 



11. Coal bed 7 to 10 



12. Interval 25 



*I. C. White : West Virginia, vol. i, p. 270; vol. ii, pp. 453, 454. 

 |I. C. White: Vol. ii, p. 364. 



