325 
“ In Dennis’ Selection (121) , a thin seam of coal is visible in a gully. The section 
here consists of— 
rt. in. 
Black carbonaceous shale 
7 0 
Argillaceous and carbonaceous sandstone 
1 0 
Brown sandy shale 
5 0 
Coal... 
0 6 
Fissile grey shale... 
.. ... thickness unknown 
Beneath, again, is a thick bed of yellow sandstone. The dip of the strata here is 5° 
N. 35° E. 
“ In Selection 393, close to the Eailway, two men are sinking a shaft, which 
is now sixty feet deej), in search of coal. The dij5 here is one in ten or twelve to the east. 
They pass through — 
Ft. 
in. 
Sandstone and shale, w'ith bands of ironstone 
... 35 
0 
Black shale, with thin seams of coal (1 to 2 in. thick) 
... 12 
0 
Black carbonaceous shales containing Pecopteris ... 
9 
0 
Hard grey sandstone (not yet through) 
3 
0 
The above thicknesses are only approximate. 
“Shales and sandstones belonging to the Coal Measures dip north-east in a 
cutting on the Bailway lino north of Kingston Bailway Station. Mr. Charles Kingston 
has done a little prospecting for coal on Scrubby Creek (selection 26G). In a hole 
seventeen feet deep, two six-inch seams were cut ; and a little further west, in a cutting 
in the bank (now nearly full of water), a shale full of streaks of coal can be seen. Mr. 
Kingston informed me that in the bottom of the cutting a sixteen-inch seam of coal was 
met with. Several outcrops of shale and coal are to be seen when the creek is dry. Dip, 
7° W. 10° 8. 
“ Three and a half miles south of Scrubby Creek, in Selection 56, a seam of coal, 
fifteen inches thick, is said to have been met with in a drive put into the steep bank of 
the Logan Biver. A small seam, a few inches thick, outcrops in a gully close by. Dip, 
7° W.N.W. 
“ About a mile higher up, and on the opposite or eastern side of the river, a good 
section is visible in the steep bank. The strata dip very slightly east-north-east and 
consist of — 
rt. in. 
Thin-bedded sandstone and shale with thin beds of coal and fireclay, 
about 15 6 
Black band and shale ... 6 6 
Black band with bed of impure coaZ 12 inches thick ... ... ... 5 6 
White clay 0 6 
Black band and shales. 
Three-quarters of a mile south-west from the river here, a shaft was sunk, forty feet 
in depth, on Selection 261, by a man named Smith. Carbonaceous shales with streaks 
of coal were passed through. At forty feet, a seam of coal was struck. Mr. Smith 
nnd another man working with him were suffocated on descending the shaft by foul air 
which had collected at the bottom. Since this fatality, which happened some months 
ngo, no further sinking has been done to test the thickness of the seam. The shaft is 
close to the boundary of the Coal Measures. 
“ Mr. Downman has done more than anyone in the district towards proving 
the presence of payable seams of coal by putting down a borehole to the depth of two 
hundred and ninety one feet near the centre of his Selection (No. 68). Mr. Falconer 
