WESTERN COAL MEASURES AND INDIANA COAL. 551 
Daviess county, was not recognized in Clay county, and at the 
time of making my section it was thought that no coal would be 
found intervening between L and K, consequently, I am now com- 
pelled to make an interpolation of a letter and provisionally des- 
ignate this coal as X ; the coal, with the limestone above it, as K, 
- and the five foot coal bed near the top of the hill at Edwardsport, 
which is equivalent to the ‘ Washington coal” as L. 
Passing on northward into Clay county, coal I, of my section, 
refers to No. 1, A, and K to No. 1, C, of Lesquereux’ section. 
Now it is clearly demonstrated in this county that there are 
two workable block coal beds in a space of fifty to sixty feet be- 
low the seam reported by Mr. Lesquereux as No. 1, A, or the low- 
est workable seam. 
At Garlick and Collins’ mine, on Otter creek, in Clay county, 
coal K is seen in the side of the hill in the road cut; I, is worked 
by a drift, and G is worked by a shaft sunk at the foot of the hill 
on the bank of Otter creek. Both I and G are here loaded in the 
cars from the same coal tip. 
In my first report, 1869, I pointed out the existence of a sec- 
ond workable seam of block coal below the seam then generally 
worked ; its position in the column was determined from imperfect 
outcrops, and for a time, an error was committed in confounding 
it with a still lower seam F. Previous to my survey of Clay coun- 
ty, no other person who had examined the ground, dreamed of 
finding another workable bed of coal below what was called the 
“ Brazil seam” (I). On the contrary, it was universally believed 
that the strata at Brazil, indicated the latter seam to be the lowest 
workable coal in the coal measures proper, and, consequently, that 
no seam of any economical,value could be found below it. Since 
the publication of my first report, the second seam has been reached 
by shafts and worked at a number of localities in the county, and 
the existence of the third seam is fully proved by bores. 
At Highland, two miles west of Brazil, L of my column, is the 
rincipal coal worked, and probably the only seam in the basin, at 
that locality, which is of a suitable thickness to be mined with 
rofit 
rofit. 
Notwithstanding the high position which it undoubtedly occu- 
pies in the measures, we find that it is referred by Mr. Lesquereux 
to No. 4 of his column, the same seam at Williams’ to No. 3, an 
the sandstone which is seen above the coal at Highland he refers, 
