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probably cut out by the sandstone, but in a boring made on the old Mike- 

 sell place, eighty rods from the Boardman line, three limestones were 

 passed through. The section afforded by this boring is as follows : 



FT. IK. 



1. Earth 23 g 



2. Black shale 5 6 



3. Sandrock 12 



4. Grayshale 17 6 



5. Limestone „ 2 7 



6. Brown shale , 5 



7. Gray sandy shale _ 31 5 



8. Limestone 3 9 



9. Grayshale 31 3 



10. Limestone 6 



11. Reddish sandy shale 23 



12. Brown shale 25 



13. Gray sandy shale .. 30 



14. Sandrock 18 



15. Grayshale 24 



16. Black shale 1 6 



17. Coal No. 1 , 5 



It will be seen from this boring that the places of Coal No.|3 and 3a were 

 passed, but they were not met with. 



In the intervals between the basins now known in this township much 

 boring has been done, and the existence of considerable barren territory 

 demonstrated. There is, however, no reason to suppose that all possible 

 coal discoveries have been made here, and it is even highly probable 

 that valuable deposits of coal will yet be found lying between and more 

 or less connected with those now known. 



COITSVILLE. 



Up to the present time comparatively little success has attended the 

 efforts to reach the Block Coal in this township. Messrs. Andrews & 

 Hitchcock have a valuable mine in the northwest corner, and some coal 

 has been found soutii of this on the lands of the Jackson Coal Co. The 

 central and eastern portions of the township are as yet untested or proved 

 barren ; but there is ample room for valuable coal basins in the territory 

 not yet bored, and it would be not at all surprising if the very extensive 

 and now productive basins of Hubbard should be found to extend south- 

 ward into Coitsville. 



POLANB. 



A large part of the township of Poland lies high above the level of 

 Coal No. 1, and borings to the depth of from two hundred to two hundred 



