FAYETTE COUNTY. U7 



Ft. In. Total. 



No. 10. Hard gray sandstone 7 11 158 2 



No. 11. Bituminous shale 7 10 166 



No. 12. Clayshale 5 6 17L 6 



No. 13 Dark, gray, sandy shale 16 2 187 8 



No. 14. Fireclay 4 188 



No. 15 Hard gray, sandy shale 9 5 197 r> 



No. 16. Dark gray shale 11 2 203 7 



No. 17. Lime conglomerate 3 211 



No. 18. Clay shale 2 8 213 8 



No. 19 Shale 3 216 8 



No. 20. Bituminous limestone with Pinna per-acuta, eto 2 218 8 



No. 21. Fire-clay 5 223 8 



No. 22. Clayshale 4 227 8 



No. 23. Dark clay shale with Avic. rectilaterarius 38 2 265 10 



No. 24. Bituminous shale 1 5 267 5 



No. 25. Limestone, CarlinTille and Shoal creek bed 4 3 271 8 



No. 26. Gray shale 27 6 2y9 2 



No 27. Bituminous shale 1 2 300 4 



No. 28. CoalNo. 9 6 300 10 



No. 29. Bituminous shale 3 301 1 



No. 30. Gray shale 1 8 302 9 



No. 31. Gray sandstone . 1 303 9 



No. 32. Grayshale 21 7 325 4 



No. 33. CoalNo. 8 9 326 1 



No. 34. Fireclay 1 327 1 



No. 35. Bituminous shale 1 6 328 7 



No. 36. Sandstone 3 7 332 2 



No. 37. Sandy shale 13 345 2 



No. 3?. Dark gray shale with bands of iron ore 7 3 352 5 



No. 39. Bituminous shale with fossil shells and ferns 2 6 355 11 



No. 40. Coal 1 356 



No. 41. Clay with iron stone concretions 9 3 365 3 



No. 42. Sandstone with fossil ferns 9 2 374 5 



No- 43. Sandy shale with clay parting 2 10 377 3 



Bottom of shaft — boring as follows : 



No. 44 Sandstone Ill 488 3 



No. 45. Limestone 2 490 3 



No. 46. Clayshale 9 10 500 1 



No. 47. Gray sandstone 5 7 505 8 



No. 48. Shale 8 10 514 6 



No. 49. Clayshale 6 520 6 



No. 50. Bituminous shale 5 6 526 



No. 51. Dark gray shale 5 2 531 2 



No. 52. Clay shale^with lime nodules 12 543 2 



No. 53. Bituminous shale 1 544 2 



No. 54. Grayshale 5 11 550 1 



No. 55. Blue clay shale 4 554 1 



No. 56. Gray clay shale 12 3 566 4 



No 57. Limestone 10 567 2 



No. 58. Bituminous slate and coal ' 6 567 8 



No. 59. Fire-clay 1 6 573 8 



No. 60. Limestone 8 574 4 



This shaft and boring reaches a depth of 574 feet -without finding a 

 ■workable coal. The shaft at Centralia was sunk to the depth of 57G feet, 

 at -which depth a seam of coal 7 feet in thickness was found. This coal 

 is 373 feet bulow the Carlinville limestone in that shaft, and if the strata 



