COLEMAN DIVISION. 211 



Feet. 



9. White limestone .... 100 



10. Eed clay 10 



11. "White shaly limestone 25 



12. Mottled clays (red and yellow) 15 



13. Yellow clay 10 



14. Rusty limestone 50 



15. Sandstone and sandy shale 10 



16. Purple limestone ' 10 



17. Yellow and red clay 25 



18. Yellow rusty limestone 200 



19. Dark blue and purple clays, bearing clay stone concretions at base 10 



20. Purple iron-bearing shale ^ 



21. Sandy shale 2 



22. Yellow rusty limestone with thin bands of elay and shale, in which are several 



bands of carbonaceous shale and coal from one to three inches thick. This 



formation is at Coleman 200 



23. Red clay 3 



24. Blue clay 3 



25. Clay shale 2 



26. Fossiliferous lime shale 1 



27. Sandy shale 2 



28. Yellow rusty limestone 3 



29. Blue and red clay 5 



30. Rusty limestone, with ironstone nodules 15 



31. Pink limestone 1 



32. Rusty limestone, massive 12 



33. White limestone 10 



34. Alternating yellow, blue, white, grey, and pink limestone, possibly with thin 



beds of clay 400 



35. Greyish blue limestone - 5 



36. Shaly white limestone . . 6 



37. Purple limestone 4 



38. Red, yellow, and blue clays 25 



39. Limestone 300 



Beyond this is Cretaceous. 



The total thickness of the Coleman division as far as traced is 1660 feet. 

 The section above will give an idea of the beds. Some prospecting for coal 

 has been done on these beds, near Coleman, but so far without success. 

 Thin seams of coal are quite numerous in the Coleman division, but it is 

 quite unlikely that workable beds will be found in the section which I have 

 described; or if by chance any should be discovered, it would be most prob- 

 ably a very local deposit, likely at any moment to disappear. Most of the 

 period during which the Coleman beds were being laid down was a time 

 when muddy water prevailed over the area. In some places the presence of 

 a shore line is plainly shown. All the limestone, with the exception of some 



