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There is only one workable bed caught in the township, 

 and only about 150 acres of that. It has been mined quite 

 extensively for some time by the Hillside Coal and Iron Co. 

 at Forest City, about one half mile north from the southern 

 line of the county, and one fourth of a mile from the eastern 

 line. 



Mr. Jno. S. Hines of Scranton, Lackawanna county, is the 

 general manager of the company and from him the follow- 

 ing facts were learned : 



The outcrop of the coal is struck at 850 feet from the For- 

 est City Station on the Jefferson Branch R.R. and about 

 (guess) 60' above the same. The coal is a very pure anthra- 

 cite and from 0' to 6' in thickness, the average workable por- 

 tion being A\' . 70 acres of the coal have already been taken 

 out or developed, and there is probably not more than 70 

 acres remaining. The company when working full time 

 puts out 2500 tons per month. There is another coal 4' to 5' 

 thick below the one wrought, but it is too slaty and impure 

 to warrant mining at the present state of the anthracite 

 trade. The company have bored some holes with diamond 

 drills in hopes of developing other valuable coals below the 

 one they are now working, but so far they have not been 

 successful, and from the nature of the case can never be, 

 since the coal they are operating is the first one above the 

 lower division of the Great conglomerate that is ever worka- 

 ble in the Lackawanna coal basin. 



The records of the diamond drill were kindly placed at 

 my disposal by Mr. Hines. 



The following bore-hole began at the bottom of an air 

 shaft, on the coal now mined by the company, and reads 

 thus, Fig. 39 : 



Bore hole A. 



1. Shaft to bottom of coal, (Forest City.) 68' 0" 



2. Shale, 6' 0" 



3. Sandstone, 27' 0" 



4. Coal, 0* 6" 



5. Sandstone, 32' 8" 



6. Slate, 2' 6' 



7. Coal, 0' 2" 



8. Slate, 22' 6" 



