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No. 2 Skam. 
Lying about 35 feet below No. 1, ia 4 feet thick, is a fine bitu- 
minous or house-fire coal, and which I calculate will extend 
underneath at least 520 acres, and will therefore yield about 
3,140,000 tons of coal, sufficient for an output of 500 tons per 
day for over twenty-one years. 
No. 3 Seam. 
Lying about 125 feet below the last or No. 2 seam ; this seam 
is 17 feet thick in all, although 7 feet only has yet been opened 
out. The bottom portion only which has been proved, is a very fine 
semi-bituminous free-burning coal, giving out a great heat, 
leaving little ash and no clinkers, and which I believe will be 
found to answer well for house, steam, and gas purposes ; and 
although only 7 feet of it has been tried, I am disposed to 
believe from appearaiuics at least 14 feet will bo found workable 
and of a good marketable Cjuality, thus leaving 3 feet for bands or 
refuse, and 1 believe this fine scam will underlie some 550 acres, 
and will therefore yield over 11,627,000 tons of coal, sufficient 
for an output of 500 tons per day for nearly seventy-eight 
years. 
No. 4 Seam. 
Lying about 45 feet below No. 3 Seam, and is an exceedingly 
rich and valuable kerosene oil shale seam of 4 feet 9 inches thick, 
2 feet 3 inches on the upper portion being of a very superior 
(piality, yielding 50 gallons of oil to the ton. The bottom por- 
tion, 2 feet 6 inches thick, is not so rich in quality, and has not 
yet been fairly tested, yet it has been worked Avith the other to 
make sufficient height in the mine to ensure economy in Avorking. 
I may remark that tliis oil shale has been explored for about 120 
yards in from the outcrop, and is gradually increasing in thick- 
ness and quality, the kerosene works now in full operation on 
the estate being supjdicd from this mine. I estimate that this 
seam, taking only the 2 feet 3 inches of proved quality Avill yield 
ill the aggregate something like 1,450, OOOtons of shale, producing 
72,500,000 gallons of refined oil, or about 100,000 gallons per 
year for over seventy-two years. 
No. 5 Seam. 
Lying about 40 feet beloAV the kerosene shale, is 7 feet in 
thickness, and has also been sufficiently explored to prove its 
quality. This seam has a band of light blue shale running through 
