156 OIL AND CAS; OHIO, WEST VIRGINIA, PENNSYLVANIA. 
Buffalo to Gretna 0110 -half mile north of the corner of Hopewell, 
Mount Pleasant, and Canton townships, just north of the crossroads. 
The following section, taken at this place, is typical: 
Section of Middle Washington limestone on road front Buffalo to Gretna. 
Ft. in. 
Coal, Jollytown, shaly- 
Shale and sandstone- 8 
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Limestone, yellow- 
Sandstone, reddish, and shale- It) 
Shale, soft, cream colored- ° 
Limestone, hard, blue- 
Limestone, slabby, white- H 
Shale- 8 
Limestone, gray, hard, and tough, fracturing flesh color- 2 
Shale_•_ 
Limestone, single heavy yellowish bed, fracture flesh color, with calcite 
crystals_ 2 
Shale_ ^ 
Concealed. 
Waynesburg and Waynesbuvg ‘"A 1 and " B coals. — I he south- 
westernmost outcrop of these beds is. in the valley of Chartiers Creek 
near the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, where the u B coal is 
exposed in the bed of the creek. Northward from this point the 
steep rise of the beds soon brings both the “A” bed and the Waynes- 
burtf to the surface. The outcrop line of these beds encircles the 
sides of the valley traversed by the Washington-Buffalo pike, well 
up toward the head of the stream, the rise of the rocks being about 
equal to that of the bed of the creek. The Waynesburg coal outcrops 
at several places along this pike west of Wolftown. On the ridge 
road northwest of Wolftown this group outcrops in a number of 
places between that village and the top of the hill. The “ B ” coal, 
with a creamy limestone from 0 to 10 feet above, is the most promi¬ 
nent of the three. In this vicinity the main Waynesburg bed is much 
thinner than elsewhere. Toward the north the coal crops out again 
in three places within half a mile, the last outcrop in this direction 
occurring just south of the residence of McClain Johnson. North¬ 
east of Wolftown these coals are hard to recognize. On the ridge 
road just west of Gretna the Waynesburg is soft and shaly, with a 
total thickness of not over 14 inches. A little farther up the hill 
near the sharp bend to the west the “ B " coal is exposed in a shaly 
bed less than 1 foot thick, with its accompanying limestone above. 
At this point the “ B ” coal is about 05 feet below the Washington 
coal. On the road west from Georges Run the Waynesburg coal, 
exposed at the foot of a steep hill, is less than 2 feet thick. At this 
point the distance to the Washington coal above is not less than 115 
feet. 
