YOUNG COUNTY. 497 



1. Blue shale , 4 feet. 



2. Shaly coal 2 feet. 



3. Yellowish sandstone, shaly 3 feet. 



4. Blue and yellow clay 15 feet. 



5. Coal 4 inches. 



6. Blue clay 10 feet. 



7. Carbonaceous shale 3 feet. 



8. Sandstone 4 feet. 



Total 41 feet 4 inches. 



The following prospecting shafts and outcrops are near the south line of 

 Young County, between Fish Creek and the Clear Fork of the Brazos. 

 Plate VI shows the relative position of the several places mentioned in the 

 Report in this vicinity: 



RUSSELL SHAFT. 



At the southwest corner of a survey made in the name of J. P. Williams 

 is the Russell shaft. It is twenty-six feet deep, and shows the following sec- 

 tion: 



1. Soil, small sandstone boulders, and clay 2 feet. 



2. Soft sandstone in irregular thin layers, with occasional streaks 



and pockets of clay * 8 feet. 



3. Alternating layers of soft sandstone and bluish clays, the sand- 



stone being in excess, and both in one-fourth to five-inch lay- 

 ers 10 feet 



4. Coal 



5. Shale, rather soft 



6. Coal 



7. Clay 



8. Coal (parting of clay in centre one-fourth inch) 2 feet. 



9. Shale 



10. Coal 



11. Blue clay 



6 



inches. 



7-£ inches. 



<4 



inches. 



8 



inches. 



3-£ inches. 



8 



inches. 



3 



inches. 







inches. 



Total 26 feet 8-J- inches. 



The sandstone at this place will make good roofing for a mine. The shaft 

 is entirely free from water and has been ever since it was put down. 



The quality of the coal is the same as. that at the Gilfoil shaft, described at 

 another place in this Report. 



GBAHAM SHAFT. 



This shaft is situated on survey No. 19,556, made in the name of Beaty, 

 Seale & Forwood, for six hundred and forty acres. It is thirty -three feet deep. 



The following is the formation passed through in sinking this shaft, be- 

 ginning at the top: 



