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In Fallsburgh township are several outcrops of the limestone which 

 caps this coal, and it is there ninety feet above the lower coal, but 

 there is no indication of anj' workable coal beneath it. 



The coal marked in the goneral section as from twenty-five to thirty- 

 five feet below the cannel, shows faint outcrops in many places in Hope- 

 well township. Many of the hills in Franklin and Fallsburgh are high 

 enough to reach it, but there is no probability of its furnishing here any 

 valuable coal. 



Coal No. 1 is, in several localities in the county, of suifioient thickness 

 to be mined for local consumption. In some places it rest upon a thin 

 bed of the Carboniferous Conglomerate, in others upm the olive shales 

 of the Waverlj' ; a bed of fire-clay and a thin stratum of shale being 

 sometimes interposed between it and these rocks. In Madison township, 

 about two miles south-east of Newark, about two hundred tone of this 

 coal have been taken from Dr. Wilson's mine. The coal, as far as work- 

 ed, was of fair quality, and reached a thickness of thirty inches. Near 

 this point, a shaft sunk through the coal disclosed the including strata 

 as follows : 



' FEET. 



1. Shale 4 



2. Coal 2 



3. Conglomerate. 



On this hill the limestone of the cannel coal is, by barometer, one hun- 

 dred feet above Coal No. 1. 



On the south-east quarter of section 1, Hopewell township, entries 

 have been carried into this coal where it is reported to be from eighteen 

 to twenty inches thick. 



On Lewis Baker's land, Mary Ann township, it is found near the top 

 of the hill, and where opened, ranges in thickness from one and a half 

 to two feet. The Conglomerate here appears in bed a few feet below it. 



On Wesley Painter's land, in the west part of Fallsburgh township. 

 Coal No. 1 has about the same thickness, and the including strata are as 

 follows : 



FEET. 



1. Gray shale, thickness undetermined. 



2. Coal Hto2 ■ 



3. Fire-clay 1 



4. Hard, white sand-rock, with Stigmaria. 



At an opening on Jacob Priest's land, in Fallsburgh township, this 

 coal is from two and a half to three feet thick, in two benches; is bright 

 and hard ; a very good coal ; but containing a rather large percentage 

 of sulphur. On the whole, this is the best exposure of Coal No. 1 ob- 



