WEST VIRGINIA NORTH OF KANAWHA RIVER 18 



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making a thickness of 502 feet 9 inches. The coal beds are at 125, 205, 

 380, and 470 feet below the Stockton. 



At Hackers, on Holly, 8 miles south, the coals are at 120, 230, 415, 

 and 520 feet, and the thickness of the Kanawha is 561 feet. At Pickens, 

 in Randolph county, 12 miles east from the Holly River locality, the 

 coals are at 150, 451 to 478, and 568 feet, and the thickness is 581 feet. 



It is apparent that the variations in thickness are largely above the 

 Campbells Creek bed, which is at 380, 415, and 451 to 478 feet below 

 the Stockton at the several localities. The lowest coal of the Wildcat 

 section is equivalent to the Gimmel of Randolph, which is very clearly 

 at the Eagle horizon. The total thickness from Stockton to the Lower 

 Carboniferous is not far from 1,000 feet, so that the section is almost as 

 thick as at Charleston, but a change appears abruptly at a little distance 

 west and northwest from this line. 



A section obtained near Ireland * 4 miles north from Wildcat, affords 

 means for checking up the tracing ; for there the interval from the Pitts- 

 burg to the Stockton is 721 feet, with coal beds at 21 and 105 feet above 

 the latter. The upper bed, the Upper Freeport, is 613 feet below the 

 Pittsburg and rests on 84 feet of massive sandstone. 



Passing over into Upshur county to the Buckhannon river, one comes 

 to Alexander, 10 miles north from Pickens. The Stockton coal bed is 

 mined at many places along the river below Pickens, while the Charles- 

 ton and Roaring Creek sandstones are in cliffs. The section is clear up 

 the little Kanawha river from Wildcat to within 2 miles of the Buck- 

 hannon, and it is repeated on the other side of the divide. At Alexan- 

 der the section is f 



Feet. Inches 



1. Massive pebbly sandstone 60 



2. Concealed 5 



3. [Stockton] coal bed and partings 13 4 



4. Concealed 10 



5. Massive pebbly sandstone 60 



6. Shale 5 



7. Coal bed, seen 2 



8. Concealed and sandstone to river 200 



Here is the great sandstone underlying the Stockton, with a coal bed 

 in it at 75 feet, the upper portion or Roaring Creek sandstone being sepa- 

 rated from the lower. The Stockton coal bed passes under the river at 

 Sago, 5 miles south from the village of Buckhannon, but comes up again 

 at the Upshur-Barbour line, where one is at 12 miles west-northwest from 

 the borings already recorded on the Randolph-Barbour border. 



*Op. cit., p. 239. 



I. C. White: Vol. ii, p. 445. 



