WASHINGTON COUNTY. 495 



Another section on the same stream was found to be quite similar, and 

 at no point was the coal thick enough for profitable mining. To the 

 east the coal grows thicker. On the land of Amos Dye, 2d, between 

 Little Morse Run and Morse Run, we find the coal in four distinct layers 

 separated by clay. The section here is as follows : 



Ft. In. 



1. Coal 3 



2. Not seen, except sandstone at bottom 40 



3. Blue clay 2 



4. Coal 4 



5. Blue clay 1 g 



6. Coal ; 4 



7. Blue clay 1 o 



8. Coal X 4 



9. Blue clay 2 1 



10. Coal 1 4 



11. Clay (not measured). 



The upper, thin coal is unusual, but traces of it are found in other 

 townships. On the main run, sometimes called, I think, the East Fork, 

 the seam is found to be from three and one-half to four and one-half feet 

 thick, and is here mined with success to supply coal to the oil works on 

 Cow Run. At the bank of Diarca Dye the coal seam at the outcrop is 

 three and one-half feet thick, with a very coarse sandrock directly over 

 it. At the bank of Wm. Carmichael, section 22, it is four feet thick. 

 At Esquire Martin's bank it is four feet. On John Pepper's land it 

 measures four and one-half feet. On the land of Mrs. Woemer the coal 

 is reported to be nine feet below the bed of Morse Run. Generally there 

 are a few feet of clay shale between the coal and the overlying sandrock, 

 but there are exceptions to this. South of Morse Run the strata along 

 the center of the uplift rise rapidly, and the coal under the heavy sand- 

 rock becomes much thinner. About one-fourth of a mile above Mr. 

 Reynolds's, on the Little Muskingum, this coal is only ten inches thick, 

 and one hundred and forty feet above the bed of the river. Here the 

 dip on either side of the anticlinal axis is very marked, but it is gen- 

 erally better seen on the western side. On Cow Run the " sandstone coal " 

 is two hundred and forty-five feet above the bed of the run. Cow Run 

 crosses the uplift in a nearly east and west course, and has eroded its 

 channel to the usual depth of all the streams of the region, as deter- 

 mined by the natural drainage. We find, therefore, in the center of the 

 uplift on Cow Run strata not seen elsewhere (except in the Newell's Run 

 uplift, in Newport township), for they are quite below the general strati- 

 graphical range of the county. If we may consider the lowest point 



