JOHILLA COAL-FIELD. 



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or near Tali, there would be considerable encouragement for the prosecu- 

 tion of further enquiries ; each point progressively fixed as coal-bearing 

 being the presage of additional success. 



The only other band of coal is north-north-east of Khaira in the 

 Chapar Nala. It is very thin, and overlies shales. 



Khaira. 



Dip towards north. 

 A bed of carbonaceous shale occurs at Barbaspur, another at 

 Jagatpur, and one near the junction of the Bareri 



Barbaspur; Jagatpur. 



and Korar streams. 

 The various out-crops of coal and carbonaceous shale that have been 



One coal-bearing hori- alluded to do not im V l Y tbat tbei ' e are »V*»1 in- 

 Z011, dependent seams or bands. The exposition of tbe 



Umaria measures is to my mind a fair gauge of the structure and 

 composition of the Korar coal-field, and hence we may assume that 

 there is one main coal-bearing horizon with a like minimum thickness of 

 workable coal. 



SECTION IX. — THE JOHILLA COAL-FIELD. 



The Barakars of the Johilla valley are exposed about 13 miles south- 

 east of Umaria, and constitute two separate tracts, one to the north, and 

 the other to the south of the metamorphic exposure of Ponri. By far 

 the larger of the two, and the only one important from an economic point of 

 view, is the northern area. In consequence of this 



Map of north portion 



of Jdhilla field — scale 1 circumstance I have not thought it necessary to 

 inch to 1 mile. „ , „ . , , 



prepare a map or each or them on an enlarged scale. 



The accident of position has caused much more attention to be 



devoted to the Umaria than to the Johilla field; but at the outset of 



the llewah coal explorations, not knowing what the fate of our purpose at 



Umaria might be, a few borings were simul- 



Borings to prove coal. 



taneously carried out in the Joliula valley with 

 the object of testing the value of the signs of coal that were there 

 visible. The extra distance would have been a very small drawback if 

 the only alternative of procuring coal had been the opening up of that 

 part of the district. As events have shown, there was no immediate 

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