OF WEST VIRGIJNIA. 



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the Aiken tract, near Dankarcl creek, thirty-five miles northwest from Morgantown, 

 the blossoms of several small beds are seen ; but of these only one has been examined. 

 This is eighteen or twenty inches thick. About fifteen miles east of this, at Price's, 

 is a four feet seam of moderately good quality, from which coal is obtained for smiths' 

 use. Above this, perhaps fifty feet, is another seam of nearly the same thickness, 

 which is opened at Brown's Mills. It is slaty and of very poor qualit}^ Five or six 

 miles east of Price's, there is said to be a five feet coal worked near the hill-top. Of 

 this I know nothing, not having seen it. On Scott's Run, a small seam, one foot 

 thick, and perhaps eighty feet above the Waynesburg, was struck by Mi-. Lumley in 

 boring a well at the head of Ramp's Hollow. Exposures are so rare that it is impos- 

 sible to determine the dip with any degree of accuracy. Otherwise the distance 

 between these coals might be calculated. The intervals, as already stated, are filled 

 with shales and sandstones, limestones being almost wholly absent until the Aiken 

 tract is reached. 



UPPER COAL GROUP. MON OjSTG AIIEL A RIVER SERIES, 



The approximate section of this group is as follows ; 



1. 



Sandstone, "Waynesburg," 30 — 40 feet. 



2. 



Shale, 



1—15 



a 



3. 



Coal, ' ' Waynesburg, " 



6—9 





4. 



Sandstone, 



15 



a - 



5. 



Shale, 



8 



t i 



6. 



Limestone, 



5 





7. 



Shales and sandstone, 



20 





8. 



Limestone and shale, 



30 



( i 



9. 



Sandstone and shale, 



35 



i i 



10. 



Limestone, 



6 





11. 



Sandstone, 

 Limestone, 



15 



i i 



13. 





i I 



13. 



Sandstone, 



10 



u 



14. 



Limestone, 



8 



i i 



15. 



Sandstone and shales, 



23 





16. 



■ Shale, 



1—25 



a 



17. 



Coal, "Sewickly," 



4i-6 



a 



18. 



Shale, 



5—8 



u 



19. 



Limestone, 



9 





20. 



Sandstone, 



4^10 



t£ 



^1. 



Limestone, 



33 





23. 



Coal, "Redstone," 



4—5 



ii 



28. 



Fireclay, 



1 



ii 



34. 



Limestone, 



12 



i t 



25. 



Shale, 



5—12 





26. 



Sandstone, 



0—35 



ii 



27. 



Coal "Pittsburgh," 



7—14 



u 



38. 



Fireclay, 



3 





Interval rocks 183 to 207 feet. 



Interval rocks 40 to 49 feet. 



Interval rocks IS to 60 feet. 



Waynesburg Coal. The eastern outcrop of this bed is about four or five miles 

 northwest from Laurel Hill. There it caps the highest hills and dips gently to the 

 northwest. This dip is retained until the coal approaches the axis or western limit of 

 our sub-basin, where it is slightly reversed. The bed is everywhere double, which, 

 as well as the heavy overlying sandstone, has led some local geologists to identify 



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