150 OIL AND GAS; OHIO, WEST VIRGINIA, PENNSYLVANIA. 
creek from the north this coal bed is fully 5 feet thick, and by its 
great thickness and the accompanying exposure of the Lower Wash¬ 
ington limestone a few feet above and the Little Washington coal 
about the same distance below it is very easily recognized. The coal 
outcrops on both sides of Haynon Run from its mouth to its source, 
being well up toward the tops of the hills at the head of this stream. 
It also shows in outcrop on the east side of Sugarcamp Run along 
its whole length. A narrow belt along the top of the ridge between 
this stream and Indian Camp Run is underlain by this coal. From 
that point northwestward the rocks rise so steeply that only the 
highest points along the ridge catch this horizon. The last outcrop 
of the coal in Independence Township in this direction is on the 
high point just north of the village of Independence. 
1 Yaynesburg and Waynesburg U A "* and U B ” coals .— 1 This group 
of coal beds comes to the surface along Buffalo Creek a little west 
of the mouth of Buck Run. West of this point the rocks dip more 
steeply than the bed of the stream, so that the Waynesburg coal is 
under cover to the edge of the quadrangle, but the and “ B ” 
beds are above the level of the creek. From the mouth of Brush Run 
eastward all the coals are in continuous outcrop along Brush Run, 
also for three-fourths of a mile up Haynon Run, where the Waynes¬ 
burg is first to go under cover. On Brush and Haynon runs the 
Waynesburg coal has been opened for mining in several places. It 
is at least 4 feet thick here and apparently of a much better grade 
than elsewhere. Up Haynon Run the “ B ” coal passes below water 
level a short distance from the John Wilson well. On Sugarcamp 
Run the first outcrop of the Waynesburg is halfway between the 
mouth of Indian Camp Run and the edge of the quadrangle. North¬ 
ward on both sides of these runs the beds rise more abruptly than 
the bottoms of the valleys, and may be found in outcrop on the sides 
of the hills as far as the northern edge of the quadrangle. 
On Sugarcamp Run the Waynesburg coal appears in several small 
layers, divided in places by as much as 15 feet of yellowish shale. 
Its appearance is so similar to that of the “A ” and “ B ” coals that 
some difficulty was experienced in distinguishing between them. 
From the point where Sugarcamp Run leaves the quadrangle north¬ 
ward the 4 ‘B " coal is most prominent. At the east end of Independ¬ 
ence this coal, together with its accompanying black shale, is at 
least G feet thick. On the road to the south a short distance from this 
point coal “ A ” goes under cover in an unusually heavy outcrop. On 
the Middletown pike from Independence this group of coals crops out 
in a number of places, the “A” and “ B ” beds being even more promi¬ 
nent than the Waynesburg itself. None, however, are of economic 
value. 
