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where it was once reached by a shaft near the station-house. The seam 

 of coal about ninety to one hundred feet above the Pomeroy seam is there 

 seen in the side hill forty-six feet above the railroad track. This seam 

 is about four feet thick, but, unfortunately, contains near the middle a 

 stratum of fire-clay from a foot and a half to two feet thick. At Philip 

 Totnan's, section 12, there are four feet six inches of coal, exclusive of the 

 clay. Following the railroad east, we find this seam of coal about three 

 feet above the level of the track. As this point is not far from the county 

 line, we may here begin an examination of the strata seen as we ascend 

 the railroad grade to Cutler Station. Bringing the separate portions into 

 one section, it is as follows, in the descending order : 



Ft. to. 



1. Coarse sandstone, in part conglomerate, forming ledges 30 



2. Coal and slate in cut at Cutler Station 6 



3. Shale, containing coal plants, Cutler Station 5 



4. Sandrock 6. 



5. Shale 8 



6. Sandrock 20 



7. Shale 6 



8. Coal 6 



9. Clay 2 



10. Coal 3 



11. Clay 1 6 



12. • Blue limestone 1 



13. Clay shale 8 



14. Sandstone 2 



15. Clay shale 3 



16. Not seen '. 30 



17. Sandstone 11 



18. Shale 7 



19. Limestone 1 



20. Shales, chiefly 13 



21. Sandstone, quarried 27 



22. Coal, upper Big Run seam (not measured). 



Railroad track. 



It is possible that the limits of Decatur township may extend far 

 enough west to take in the lowest coal of the above section, but it will 

 necessarily be in or near the bed of Big Run. Where seen along the 

 railroad, the coal seam No. 8 of the above section is very thin. This is 

 the Hobson coal, of Wesley township, where the seam is worked. On 

 the land of John Storts, section 17, a geological section was taken, which 

 revealed about one hundred and thirty feet of strata, extending from a 



