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near Cadiz JunctioB, an opening shows the roof-coal 8 inches, fire-clay 

 1 foot, and coal 4 feet ten inches. The coal throughout is of good quality. 

 The bed was followed into Rumley township, but there are no openings 

 there. This is somewhat strange, when we consider that that township 

 is supplied with coal from Jefferson. At several points along the road 

 from Jefferson to Rumley the bed is to be seen underlying patches of 

 from ten to twenty acres, with a good roof, and seventy feet below the 

 hill-tops. Some of these patches contain not less than 350,000 bushels 

 of sound coal, liberal deduction being made for unsound coal about the 

 margin. Under the circumstances, these remnants, spared from erosion, 

 might be profitably worked by their owners, and much would be saved 

 to consumers. 



In the central portion of Archer township the greater part of the coal 

 has been removed by erosion, and most of what remains is in detached 

 portions, from twenty to fifty acres in extent, and lying near the tops of 

 the hills. Alopg the eastern and northern lines coal No. 8 is readily ac- 

 cessible, and worked to a considerable extent for domestic use. At Mr. 

 Nathaniel McFadden's opening, in section 7, the coal is as follows : 



FT. IN. 



Coal Ito 10 



Shale 4-6 



Coal 5-5 6 



At this bank the upper pyrites band does not appear, and the upper 

 bench is thirty-one inches thick to the upper parting. This coal is said 

 to be remarkably pure, there being no pyrites apparent, and is so favor- 

 ably regarded by blacksmiths that it is hauled for their use to a distance 

 of eight or ten miles. At Mr. J. Atkinson's opening, in section 16, the 

 roof coal appears to be absent, and the section is : . 



FT. IK. 



Coal 6 



Pyrites band Jtol 



Coal , 1 6 



Parting 3 



Coal '. 10 



Parting 1 



Coal 1 2 



4 5 



The opening of Mr. Henry Eslick, in the same neighborhood, shows a 

 similar section. Two and one-half miles south of Fairview some deserted 

 banks show a thickness of four feet six inches. At the infirmary the 

 bed is five feet. This coal is seen at Mr. Feck's opening, in North town- 



