ALLEGHENY FORMATION IN WEST VIRGINIA 153 



the top of his Charleston sandstone, so that it seems to be near the 

 Upper Freeport horizon. At Sheridan the upper part is cannel. A lower 

 bed arises from the river above Sheridan, and at 7 miles from that place is 

 115 feet above the river. Twelve miles farther south, on Stone Coal 

 branch, in Logan county, Mr d'InvilKers finds a coal bed 5 feet 6 inches 

 thick at a little more than 500 feet above the Campbells Creek (Sharon) 

 coal bed. This is 712 feet above the river and it may be the same with 

 Mr Campbell's lower bed. The section at Dingess, in Mingo county, makes 

 possible that this is at the Brookville horizon. 



Twelve-pole creek flows northwardly through Wayne county, both forks 

 rising in Mingo county. Mr Campbell finds the upper horizon in his 

 Charleston persistent in the southwest corner of Wayne, where the coal 

 was opened at Eadnor, Ferguson, and elsewhere, but proved to be worth- 

 less. Doctor White states that this bed rises from the creek at a little 

 way above Wayne. He describes it as double on Cave creek, where the 

 splits are separated by 30 feet of sandstone. This bed, which he corre- 

 lated with the Upper Freeport, becomes cannel westwardly from Twelve- 

 pole creek and the cannel persists to the Kentucky line. Mr Campbell 

 finds another coal bed at 100 feet lower, also poor, and one still lower is 

 shown near the Kentucky line. All of these coals are so badly broken by 

 partings as to be practically worthless. 



At Dingess, in northern Mingo, Doctor White describes a coal bed 8 

 feet 1 inch thick in seven layers of coal and shale and about 480 feet 

 above the Warfield (Sharon) coal bed. It is near the place of the Brook- 

 ville, for at a few miles west, in Lawrence county of Kentucky, the 

 Warfield (Sharon) coal bed is about 680 feet below what appears to be 

 the Upper Freeport limestone. The section near Nolan, 10 miles farther 

 south, as given by Doctor White, is: 



Feet. Inches 



1. Sandstones and red shale 290 



2. Mason coal bed 2 1 



3. Concealed and coarse sandstone 60 



4. Number 5 Block coal bed, mostly splint 3 11 



5. Fireclay and mostly coarse sandstone 150 



6. Stockton coal bed, splint, with parting 2 



One is here on the border and the conditions are very like those ob- 

 served along the southeast outcrop northwardly beyond the Kanawha.* 



* E. V. d'Invilliers : Geological report on West Virginia and Ohio railroad line, pp. 

 9, 46, 48 ; map of New river and Kanawha coal field ; also personal communication of 

 unpublished material. 



B. S. Lyman : Proc. Am. Phil. Soc, vol. xxxiii, pp. 286-288. 



M. R. Campbell : Charleston folio, pp. 6, 7, 8 ; Huntingdon folio, pp. 4, 5, 6. 



I. C. White : West Virginia Survey, vol. ii, pp. 376-377, 541-543. 



