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show no red beds. The Wetzel county records, though very numerous, 

 give little information respecting the Dunkard. The Nineveh limestone 

 in the northeast corner of the county is 615 feet above the Waynesburg, 

 which is 340 feet above the Pittsburg. The Waynesburg coal bed be- 

 comes an uncertain horizon in this county, but it is often recorded on 

 the east side, where it is 340 to 350 feet above the Pittsburg, and the 

 Washington varies little from 515, or 170 feet above the Waynesburg. 

 Midway in the county the Washington is usually about 475 feet above 

 the Pittsburg, and 'exposures above a boring at Pine Grove show it 221 

 feet above the Uniontown coal bed of that record. The Washington is 

 exposed at many places between Pine Grove and New Martinsville, on the 

 Ohio river, and it is mined for domestic use, though it yields only a 

 small proportion of good coal. On the northern border of the county, 

 at 10 miles east from the Ohio river, the Washington is 109 feet above 

 the thin Waynesburg and 446 feet above the Pittsburg, but near the 

 river, just over the line in Marshall county, the Waynesburg is only 

 306 feet, so that the Washington would be not more than 410 feet above 

 the Pittsburg, or about 175 feet above the Uniontown. The Washington 

 is exposed at several places along the river and is mined at New Martins- 

 ville, where it is 382 feet below the Nineveh limestone. Red beds, though 

 numerous, are comparatively unimportant in Wetzel county, and are 

 rarely more than 5 feet thick.* 



The Washington coal bed seems to be persistent in western Harrison 

 county, and it has been mined at places along the Baltimore and Ohio 

 railroad. In the northwestern part of the county it rests on a thick 

 sandstone, and red beds 5 and 90 feet thick are at 6 and 50 feet above the 

 coal. The Waynesburg A rests on 11 feet of reds, and a bed 20 feet 

 thick overlies the place of the Waynesburg coal. At Sedalia, in Dodd- 

 ridge county, a diamond-drill core shows neither coal nor red shale in 

 189 feet above the Uniontown coal bed, but at 3 or 4 miles west the 

 Washington coal is 190 feet above the Uniontown, and two red beds, 

 50 and 12 feet, are at 20 and 123 feet below it, both in the Dunkard. 

 Another bed, 10 feet thick and 100 feet above the Uniontown, is in a 

 well on the western side of the county where the others are wanting. 

 A well near the Tyler line shows the Washington 504 feet above the 

 Pittsburg, 64 feet less than in northwest Harrison county. That coal bed 

 is present in Doddridge southward to beyond the Baltimore and Ohio 

 railroad and it is mined in a small way at many places. It is double 

 or triple and always yields poor coal. 



* I. C. White : Catalogue, pp. 67, 69. West Virginia Geology, vol. 1, pp. 238, 241 ; 

 vol. ia, pp. 127, 128, 178, 202, 212, 213 ; vol. ii, pp. 106, 107, 109, 110, 112, 114, 137. 



