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the lower great sandstone bed of the coal measures, about one hundred 

 and ninety feet below the gray limestone. Two miles east from West 

 Bedford is Sproule's coal bank, three feet thick, the coal very sulphury, 

 no cannel in it. Johnson's mine, half a mile further east, and Marshall's 

 still farther in this direction, exhibit the same characters. The bed is 

 evidently the same at the three places, and is supposed to be No. 4, though 

 the gray limestone is not seen near it. No good coal is found in the cen- 

 tral and southern part of the township, and the blacksmiths depend upon 

 coal brought from Parks opening in No. 6, in the northeast corner of 

 Washington township. The same bed could no doubt be found in the 

 60uth part of Bedford, as near the school house, not a mile south from 

 Sproule's mine, the following outcrops are observed from the blue lime- 

 stone up. The gray limestone fifty feet higher, four feet thick; coal out- 

 crop (No. 6), eighty feet up. Above the school house : coal outcrop, one 

 hundred and twenty- five feet up; top of the hill, one hundred and eighty 

 feet above the blue limestone, reddish brown sandstone. 



Section on Sproule's farm, east of West Bedford, Bedford township. 



FT. 



Soil and drift. 

 Gray limestone. 



Coal, Sproule's land .- 3 



Fire-clay. 



Shales and sandstones, mostly covered 80 



Blue limestone - - -- 8 



Cannel coal - - 2 



Fire-clay. 



Space mostly covered, sandstoiie below 100 



Coal No. 1. 



Jackson. — In the northwest corner of this township, coal No. 4 is worked 

 on the farm of Abm. Haines, near the summit of the hills. The bed is 

 four feet thick, and the coal appears to be of good quality ; has no cannel 

 seams. Its roof is shale, three inches thick, and over this is the gray 

 limestone, six feet ten inches thick. From the bottom of this limestone 

 it is twenty four feet to the blue limestone exposed in the run below, 

 mixed with chert, and overlying a cannel coal bed, the thickness of which 

 is not known. As both these coal beds attain large dimensions on the 

 other side of Simmons Creek, in Jefferson and Bedford townships, they 

 may be expected to occur in other places in the northwest part of Jack- 

 son, also, of workable size ; but the only locality in Jackson where either 

 is opened is in the extreme corner of the township. Toward Roscoe, over 

 ■the high lands to the south of the Walhonding River, the summits are 

 far above the plane of these beds, and between four and one-half and five 

 and one-half miles from Roscoe, the outcrops of two coal beds are observed, 



