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Upper Freeport (Mason) and number 5 Block coal beds are present at 

 40 and 115 feet above the Stockton, below which the succession is* 



Feet 



1. [Stockton] coal bed 



2. Shale 20 



3. Hard sandstone 45 



4. Coal bed 7 



5. Very hard sandstone 30 



6. Shales 40 



7. Hard sandstone 60 



8. Shale, limestone (?) 30 



9. Hard sandstone 25 



10. Shales, limestone (?), 8 feet 113 



11. Hard sandstone 50 



12. Slate and shells 40 



13. Hard sandstone 20 



14. Shales, limestone (?) 28 



15. Hard sandstone 14 



Total 522 



to the Mauch Chunk red rock. Here one finds the coal bed under the 

 Roaring Creek sandstone number 3, as at Wildcat, in the Lewis County 

 well and near Sago. The great mass, 280 feet thick in southern Barbour 

 and northern Randolph, is here 237 feet, though no longer continuous, 

 and rests on 113 feet of shales — in all, 370 feet — to number 11, the top 

 of the Lower Pottsville. The coal bed at 395 feet in the Randolph boring 

 is at the place of the Campbell Creek coal bed, and that bed should be 

 in number 10, below the middle. The relations are made thoroughly 

 clear in another boring at about 4 miles northwest from Philippi, where 

 the measurement from the Pittsburg coal bed downward is complete. 

 The interval from the Pittsburg to the Stockton coal bed is 717 feet, 

 with the Ames limestone at 305 feet and the Upper Freeport (Mason) 

 coal bed at 607 feet. The section is important.* 



Feet 



1. [Stockton] coal bed 



2. Sandstone, limestone 15 



3. White slate 30 



4. Black slate 5 



5. White slate 30 



6. White sandstone 52 



7. White shale 25 



8. Limestone 10 



9. Coal bed . 5 



10. Sandstone 15 



*I. C. White : West Virginia, vol. ii, pp.34, 238, 357, 358, 359. 



