coal seam. The coal is lignitic and differs in quality in different localities. The best is to the south of the house where it has been opened by the Co. Here there are 3 veins of about a foot each in thickness composed of fine leaves but hard & solid except when weathered - between them are about ten feet of sand and gravel and over the middle one four feet of very friable blue shale over the upper one is a 4 in layer of sandy shale containing impressions of leaves of grasses hemlock - arctostaphylos