JEFFEKSON COUNTY. 749 



A little further south, on the same property, the workable coal of the 

 preceding section is shown in its relative position with three seams 

 above it. The section is as follows : 



1. Gray shale. 



2. Coal 15 inches. 



3. Clay shale 18 feet. 



4. Coal : 12 inches. 



5. Sandstone and shale.." 18 feet. 



6. Coal No.7 m 2i to 3 feet. 



7. Interval concealed : 54 feet. 



8. Coa? iVo. 6 (?) or grade of railroad 2J " 



9. Fire-clay and sandstone to river 45 " 



By reference to the section at Sloan's Station it will be seen that the 

 xipper workable coal has two thin coals above it, just as here ; and as 

 these lie at the base of the Barren Measures, we may consider the upper 

 workable coal of the section, next below the two little seams, as Coal 

 No. 7. 



At Sloan's Station, the distance between Coal No. 7 and the. "lime- 

 stone coal" (No. 5) is eighty-five feet; between Coal No. 7 and the next 

 «oal below it, in the Wells property, the distance is only fifty-four feet. 

 Hence, if the coals are the same in both sections, they have approached 

 each other thirty-one feet in three miles. This is no unusual thing for 

 coal seams to do, but it is quite possible that the lower seam at Wells's is 

 not the same as the "limestone coal" at Sloan's Station. There is appa- 

 rently no limestone below it, and if we are right in our enumeration of 

 the coals at Sloan's, Coal No. 6 belongs in the blank interval where the 

 Jiard clay, is at Sloan's, and it is quite possible that it has made its ap- 

 pearance at Wells's mine. Unfortunately, the heavy bed of sandstone 

 which forms the immediate bank and bed of the river has obliterated the 

 record below, so that, without further exploration, it is impossible to 

 settle this question. 



From Jeddo to Brown's Station the Cumberland (or No. 7) coal has 

 been much sought for, but without success. 



On Island Creek, however, it has been found and worked in several 

 places. It is here known as the " Finley Coal." It is worked on the 

 Moreland farm, but is reported as running down to two feet, and even 

 disappearing altogether. Tbe following is a section from the summit 

 of. the hills to Moreland's mine, and^thence to Island Creek : 



1. Slope covered 70 feet. 



2. Crinoidal limestone 5 " 



3. Slope mostly covered, olive shales and sandstones near 



base' 220 " 



