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Ft. Id. Ft. In. 



6. Blueclay : 29 4 90 4 



7. Black and brown shale mixed, changing into sandstone, and bottom 6 or S feet 



contains fossil plants covered with coal crust, making gray-colored debris ; 



water abundant at bottom of this 43 133 4 



8. Sandstone '. 14 147 4 



9. Clay, light-colored 4 1S1 4 



10. Coal (working this bed) „ 4 2 155 6 



11. Fire-clay, with pyrite balls . 8 163 C 



12. Redshale 7 170 6 



13. Sandstone 4 174 



14. Limestone 7 175 1 



15. Shale 6 181 1 



16. Limestone 1 6 182 7 



17. Blue shale or clay 21 203 7 



18. Coal 2 203 9 



19. Sandstone 3 206 !) 



20. Blae shale or clay 2 208 !> 



21. CoaL 2 208 11 



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23. Black slate and little coal 2 227 11 



24. Fireclay 1 6 229 5 



25 Sandstone f.. 5 234 5 



2G. Fire-clay 7 241 5 



■27. Limestone, hard 1 8 243 1 



28. Fire-clay 3 6 246 7 



29. Sandstone 11 257 7 



30. Bine clay or shale 45 302 7 



31. CoaL 3 6 306 1 



32. Fire-clay 1 307 1 



33. Sandstone 2 309 1 



The mine is wet, water dripping from the sandstone, No. 8 of the sec- 

 tion, the clay next above the coal giving way, and varying from two to 

 eight feet in thickness. H. L. Marsh's mine is dry. 



Chatsworth boring, west of town, for coal, south-east qr. sec. 4, T. 26, 

 E. 8 E.: 



Section. 



Ft. In. Ft. In. 



1. SoiL blae clay and sand 65 



2. Soft sandstone (aand?) 15 80 



3. Vegetable dirt bed, grains of wood discernable like old rotten logs and por- 



tions of leaves ". 4 -84 



4. Fire-clay (so-called) 4 88 



5. Sandstone 35 123 



6. Shale 13 136 



7. Coal or black slate 2 136 2 



8. Fire-clay 1 137 2 



9. Soapstone or shale 11 118 2 



10. CoaL 1 3 149 5 



11. Fireclay , 3 152 5 



12. Soapstone 15 167 5 



13. Blackslate'. 1 6 163 11 



14. Soapstone or shale - 31 1 200 



To coal or slate, a thin bed, with iron pyrite. 



This boring is fifty feet from the railroad, near east line of section 4. 



