14 GEOLOGY OP ILLINOIS. 



At War. Howe's place, on sec. 3, T. 9, E. 14, we found the following 

 beds exposed below the Quarry creek limestone : 



Ft. 



Clay shale 4 to 6 



Bituminous shale 2 



Coal 1 



Shaly fire-clay 2 



Sandstone and shale with bands of carb. of iron 20 



Coal H 



Clay shale 3 to 



Compact brownish-gray limestone 3 to 5 



Black shale and fire-clay partially exposed 2 to 3 



Sandy shale and sandstone. 25 to 30 



Both the coals in the above section have been worked here, mostly, 

 by stripping in the bed of a small branch. The quality of the coal is 

 good, but, unfortunately the seams are too thin to be successfully worked 

 in a regular way. They are the equivalents of the two upper coals in 

 the general section of the rocks of this county. 



At Mrs. Brant's place, on sec. 10 of the same township, we found the 

 following section, which varies but little from that above given: 



Ft. In 

 Blue shale 10 



Bituminous shale 1 3 



Coal 1 



Fire-clay __ 2 



Shale and sandstone 20 



Bituminous shale 1 



Coal 1 3 



Clay shale 6 



Brown limestone _. 3 



Shale and sandstone 25 



Bituminous shale 3 to 4 



Coal 9 



Sandy shale and sandstone 3C to 40 



Tumbling masses of the Quarry creek limestone were found here as 

 well as at Mr. Howe's place, immediately above the blue shale, at the 

 top of the foregoing sections, and there is probably only a few feet of 

 sandy shale or sandstone intervening between the limestone and the 

 upper shales of these sections. Considerable coal has been mined at 

 Mrs. Brant's place, and these two seams formerly furnished the greater 

 portion of the coal used by the neighboring blacksmiths. It is a true 

 splint coal breaking freely into cuboidal blocks two or three inches in 

 thickness, and free from pyrite. At Mr. Joseph Howe's dwelling house 

 the limestone was found at the bottom of his well, not more than ten 

 to fifteen feet above the upper coal which crops out near by. 



On Hurricane branch, commencing on sec. 14, T. 10, B. 13, and 

 extending down the creek for a distance of two miles or more, there 

 are continuous outcrops of sandstone and sandy shales, ~No. 12 of the 

 county section. The upper portion is shaly with some thin bedded 

 sandstone, passing downward into a massive, partly concretionary sand- 



