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Near Brink, on the Marion line, the Butler sandstone is present at 

 565, and another begins at 720, which passes down into the Pottsville. 

 Five or six miles northward, in the northeast corner of the county, the 

 section varies abundantly ; in one well sandstone begins in the Conemaugh 

 at 446 and is continuous to 911 feet below the Pittsburg — a condition 

 very similar to that in many wells within the adjoining county of 

 Marshall, at the north, as well as in some portions of Greene county, 

 Pennsylvania, and along the southeast outcrop toward the Kanawha ; but 

 in a well near the last this sandstone is broken by shale at 546 and 763, 

 while in three others there is no sandstone whatever in the Allegheny. 

 The extreme bottom of the Allegheny here can not be more than 770 feet ; 

 but the interval is less westward, for at Silver hill, 10 miles away, on the 

 Marshall line, the Lower Freeport coal bed is only 575 feet below the 

 Pittsburg, and the first sandstone in the Pottsville begins at 762. West- 

 ward the section shortens and the interval from Pittsburg to the first 

 sandstone of the Pottsville decreases from 752 to 714 feet, the last near 

 the Ohio river. In the central part of the county the sandstones are so 

 variable that correlation is impossible and in many of the records the 

 Allegheny and Pottsville are practically all shale. No coal is reported 

 in any of the records, which are very numerous.* 



Tyler county is south from Wetzel, along the Ohio river. A detailed 

 record is given at Wick, a few miles east from the Ohio river, which 

 shows a great sandstone beginning at 539 feet below the Pittsburg and 

 continuing for 135 feet; it is separated from the Pottsville sandstone by 

 30 feet of shale, holding at its base a trace of the Brookville coal bed 

 resting on the Pottsville sandstone at 704 feet. This shale and its coal 

 have been replaced in many places, for midway in the county and south- 

 westward sandstone prevails. At Middlebourne there is sandstone from 

 537 to 957; in other localities it begins at 490, 514, 550, 595, 600, 602, 

 and is from 200 to 400 feet thick, always replacing the Brookville horizon 

 except at Sistersville, where it ends at 685, but no record of the under- 

 lying rock is given. On the southeast, or Doddridge County side, the 

 sandstones are ordinarily less conspicuous, though one record shows a 

 bed extending from 581 to 896 feet below the Pittsburg. No trace of 

 coal, aside from that of the Brookville, appears in any of the records. 



Pleasants county, north from Eitchie, is west from Tyler, and, like 

 that county, adjoins Washington county of Ohio. 



No coal is noted in any of the numerous records available for this 



* I. C. White : Geology of West Virginia, Monongalia, vol. i, pp. 239-240 ; vol. ia, pp. 

 156-157; Marion, vol. i, pp. 241-242, 245, 346, 348; vol. ia, pp. 161-162, 164, 174-175; 

 Wetzel, vol. i, pp. 343-345 ; vol. ia, pp. 177-189, 200-203, 212-213. 



