PART 4.] 
Clianda Coal Field, Central Provinces. 
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It is evident that the rods have not yet touched a bed of the coal-bearing rocks in this 
section, all the beds passed through belonging to the Upper or Panchet series. 
Reviewing the results thus obtained, we find that borings at Chanda, which are repre¬ 
sented as having passed through the entire thickness of the coal-bearing rocks there, and 
to have pierced the Talchir beds below, (in which no coal is known), exposed only two thin 
beds of poor coal, so thin as to be unworkable. While at Ballarpur also, a boring of about 
the same depth (about 240 feet), said in like manner to have gone through the entire thick¬ 
ness of the coal-bearing rocks and to have pierced the Talehirs, showed also two beds of 
coal, one of 18 inches, one of 9 inches in thickness. 
It need scarcely be said that none of these are workable at the depth at which thev 
occur. 
Before those explorations had commenced, Major Lucie Smith, Deputy Commis¬ 
sioner of Chanda, who deserves the highest credit for the sustained zeal and intelligent 
earnestness with which he has prosecuted these enquiries, had a pit opened on the bed of coal 
visible in the Wurda channel, near Googoos, or'Chcndoor. And from the coal there met with, 
at a depth of 30 feet below the surface, a considerable quantity was raised for experimental 
trials to which I will presently refer. As, however, this pit was within the limits of the 
ordinary flood level of the Wurda, a bore-hole was put down about 330 yards from the bank 
of the river and nearly in the line of strike of the beds. This bore-hole was carried out 
by Corporal Carson, of the Public Works Department, under the orders of Major Lucie 
Smith, Mr. Fryar also assisting. As was tolerably certain at such a distance the coal was 
found to continue. This bore-hole was sunk altogether to 121 feet 6 inches, and gave the 
following section 
Total 
Feet. Inches. 
3 0 Surface clay. 
5 0 Kcd mooruiu. 
40 0 Variegated sandstone. 
8 0 White sandstone, 
o 0 Yellow clay. 
10 0 Dark-brown clay. 
2 0 Black shale. 
3 0 Coal , 
3 0 Dark sandy shale. 
3 0 Coal. 
5 6 Blue shale. 
12 0 Coal. 
4 0 „ mixed with iron pyrites. 
5 0 Coal. 
o 6 Shale. 
11 6 Coal. 
121 6 
Below this is white sandstone streaked with black shale. It is much to be regretted 
that the boring was not continued, so as to ascertain the thickness of the formation here 
and the position of this thick deposit of coal in it. 
The coal having thus been proved here, a pit was commenced and is now in progress. 
A second bore-hole was then commenced about a mile to the south, and to the west a 
little south of the village of Googoos. This is as nearly as can bo the locality recommended 
by the Geological Survey in 1867, “about 300 yards west of the village of Googoos.” 
This bore-hole was carried down in all about 112 feet, giving the following section :— 
Total 
Feet. Inches. 
6 0 
22 0 
0 3 
21 6 
2 6 
4 0 
6 0 
3 6 
2 0 
17 0 
. 20 0 
7 0 
111 9 
Surface clay. 
Variegated sandstone. 
Ironstone. 
Variegated sandstone, 
lied rock. 
Yellow clay. 
Dark shaly clay. 
Shale. 
Crimson colored sandstone, 
Clay and sand. 
Light colored sandstone. 
Variegated sandstone. 
