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The intervals are smaller than at the south or north, owing to thinning 

 of the Conemaugh and, to a less extent, of the Allegheny. 



At the Brown well, 10 miles northwest from Morgantown, on the 

 Pennsylvania line, the intervals are 570, 670, 745, 820 feet, with 35 feet 

 between the Roaring Creek and the Pottsville. This formation shows 



Feet 

 i. Sandstone , . . , 20 



2. Coal bed 2 



3. Slate 8 



4. Sandstone 180 



5. " Slate and shells " 20 



in all, 230 feet, separated by 140 feet of mostly red rock from the Lower 

 Carboniferous limestone; but in a neighboring well the top sandstone 

 is 43 feet and the overlying shale but 7 feet. Number 1 is evidently the 

 il Homewood '' and number 4 the " Connoquenessing." At about 10 miles 

 southwest from the Brown well and 2 miles northeast from Fairview,in 

 Marion county, the Pottsville is reached at 826 feet below the " Pittsburg," 

 and consists of two sandstone plates, 50 and 136 feet respectively, sepa- 

 rated by 69 feet of " slate and shells," so that the upper part of the 

 Connoquenessing has been replaced by shale. The lower plate rests on 

 red rock, and is 165 feet above the limestone. At about 8 miles west 

 from Fairview the change is more marked. There the Upper Freeport 

 is at 578, but below it only " slate and shells" is recorded to 918 feet, 

 where a sandstone 80 feet thick is reached. This rock, 240 feet above 

 the limestone, represents the middle portion of the Connoquenessing 

 mass at Browns. The same condition exists at Metz, 5 miles southwest 

 from the last, where the sandstone, 75 feet thick at 918 feet, rests on 245 

 feet of unrecorded material. In northeastern Wetzel, at Hundred, 9 

 miles northwest from Metz, 100 feet of sandstone appear at 930 feet, 

 with apparently only shales up to the Roaring Creek sandstone. Near 

 Cogley, 10 or 12 miles farther north in Marshall county, the change is 

 complete, for the Roaring Creek sandstone is at 705 feet, and the next 

 sandstone, the Logan, is at 1,095 feet. At 10 miles north from Cogley, in 

 the same county, the normal condition begins to reappear, for beginning 

 at 770 feet below the Pittsburg, one has 



Feet 



1. Sandstone 10 



2. Slate 60 



3. Sandstone 20 



4. Slate 50 



5. White sandstone 85 



6. Black sand and slate 110 



