YOUNG COUNTY. 493 



About one-half mile southeast of Flat Top a shaft has been put down to 

 the coal, which has been reported to be forty-eight inches thick. The shaft 

 was filled with water at the time of my visit so that I could not make a per- 

 sonal examination as to the thickness of the seam, but I suspect that in esti- 

 mating the thickness of the seam they put in the Carbonaceous shale that is 

 over the eight-inch seam at the Flat Top section. 



About five miles west of Flat Top Mountain, on Coal Bank Branch and 

 on Colony Survey No. 604, there is another outcrop of the coal. It outcrops 

 along the north side of the hill for at least one-half mile. At this place coal 

 has been mined at times for several years to supply local demands. Shallow 

 pits are dug down to the coal by each man who goes after a few loads of coal, 

 and what he wants for his present purposes is taken out, and the same thing 

 is repeated when he, or some one else, at some other time desires another 

 supply. Where they sink the pits it is not more than four or five feet down 

 to the coal, and with such thin covering the coal is not as free from atmos- 

 pheric influences as it is desirable to have in order to be of good quality. 



The following section was made at that place. Beginning at the top: 



1. Shaly yellowish limestone 10 feet. 



2. Clay 1 foot. 



3. Coal 8 inches. 



4. Slate 4 inches. 



5. Coal 8 inches. 



6. Slate 2 feet. 



1. Coal 2 feet. 



8. Slate 6 inches. 



9. Coal 8 inches. 



10. Fire clay 2 feet. 



Total 19 feet 10 inches. 



There has been a shaft sunk down to the coal about three thousand feet 

 north of this place, which shows about the same conditions and surroundings. 



Again, about one mile west of the above section, on the west bank of Salt 

 Creek, near the foot of a high hill, there is another outcrop of the coal. At 

 this place it is in the bed of the stream. This would be an excellent place 

 to open a mine when there can be secured a means of transportation for the 

 coal. The dip of the coal seam at this place is north 80° west, forty-seven 

 feet to the mile. 



COAL CREEK. 



About three miles southwest of the mine on Coal Bank Branch is the mouth 

 of Coal Creek. In this vicinity there are several outcrops of the coal seam. 

 On Colony survey No. 426, on a branch running into Coal Creek from the 



