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farther to the west, on sec. 18, T. 4 N., B. 10 E., a double seam was 

 reported to have been passed through' iD a bore but a short distance 

 below the surface, the upper oue two feet and the lower one three feet in 

 thickness, with a space of about fifteen feet between them. These coals, 

 if there are really two distinct seams here, must be about the horizon 

 of No. 15 of the geueral section, and this is probably about the southern 

 line of outcrop for these coals, as no indications of their presence was 

 found in the boring at Olney or in sinking wells about the city, and 

 from the topography of the surface 1 am inclined to believe the surface 

 level where these coals have been found is at least forty or fifty feet 

 above the level at Olney. 



Prof. Cox notes the following sections at points I did not visit: 

 "Section at B. F. Heap's sandstone quarry on sec. 34, T. 4, B. 10 E. 



Ft. 



Soil and drift 8 



Soft half sandstone 3 



Hard gray building stone 4 



The gray sandstone is very hard and takes a good finish, stands well 

 but is somewhat marred by carbonaceous spots. At Andy Darling's 

 quarry, two miles west of Olney, the quarry rock is overlaid by 8 feet 

 of buff 1 silicious shale, beneath which is a heavy bedded buff sandstone 

 that was quarried for the masonry on the O. and M. railroad at the time 

 of its construction. 



On sec. IS, T. 3, E. 10, on Big creek, found the following section : 



Ft 



Covered slope 25 



Slialy aandstone 5 



Heavy bedded sandstone 10 



Slack bituminous sbale 3 



A quarter of a mile down the creek a soft buff sandstone in heavy 

 beds from four to ten feet thick alternate with thinner beds of hard 

 bluish sandstone. At Higgins' mill, on sec. 34, T. 3, E. 14, in his well 

 located on the slope of a hill rising to the north from Boupass creek, 

 sixteen feet of sandstone was pa>sed through and a coal seam below it 

 reported to be twenty inches thick. Shaly sandstone and clay shale 

 were seen overlaying the heavy bedded sandstone a few hundred yards 

 above the mill. The hills along the Bonpass are from twenty to sixty 

 feet high, composed in part of drift deposits consisting of yellowish 

 clay with gravel and small bowlders, the latter seldom exceeding five 

 or six inches in diameter. 



At Wilson Law's coal bank, on sec. 16, T. 2, E. 14, the section is 

 as follows : 



Ft. In. 



Soil and drift 10 



Enff sandstone and shale 5 



Bluish-gray limestone 2 



Shale 2 



Coal : 1 8 



