WEST VIRGINIA — CENTRAL AND WESTERN COUNTIES 195 



Feet 



1. Sandstone 62 



2. Slate 63 



3. Sandstone , 10 



4. Slate, shells, limestone 35 



5. Sandstone 50 



6. Black slate 63 



7. Bed rock 10 



8. Sandstone 56 



in all, 349 feet, and separated by 15 feet of shale from the Limestone. 

 The section is shorter, as is to be expected. The presence of the red rock 

 is important as showing the equivalence of the lower part of the section. 

 At probabty 20 miles west from Joetown, in Tyler county, and about 

 12 miles southwest from the last locality, a record shows the Roaring 

 Creek in contact with the Pottsville.* 



At 3 or 4 miles southeast from Joetown, a well on Laurel run, in Har- 

 rison county, shows, beginning at 702 feet below the Pittsburg, 



Feet 



1. Sandstone 270 



2. Limestone (?) 35 



3. Sandstone 95 



4. Black slate 48 



5. Sandstone 20 



separated by 93 feet of " limestone and slate " from the Limestone. At 

 Joetown the top of the Roaring Creek sandstone is at 696 feet below the 

 Pittsburg ; if the conditions remain as at that place, only about 150 feet 

 of the top sandstone belong to the Pottsville. There is a replacement 

 of the bottom sandstone by shale, so that instead of 108 feet, only 20 

 remain. The Connoquenessing ends with number 3, and the Sharon 

 coal bed, if present, should be in the upper part of number 4. The in- 

 terval from number 3 to the Limestone is 161 feet. Here, as at the pre- 

 ceding two localities, one finds in the union of the Roaring Creek and 

 Homewood sandstones the condition observed 20 miles southeast in the 

 Webster boring, a notable condition along much of the eastern border. 

 The variability of the section is shown by the record of a well at 

 Browns Mills, in Harrison county, only 8 miles south from Joetown, 

 which is in notable contrast with the records at Joetown and Laurel run. 

 The place of the Upper Freeport coal bed is at 592 feet below the Pitts- 

 burg ; thence for 300 feet there are only " black slate and shells ; " so that, 

 beginning at 892 feet, one finds 



* I. C. White : Op. cit., vol. i, pp. 239-240, 241-242, 341-342, 34(5 ; vol. ii, pp. 390-391. 



