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and was abandoned. Tunnel No. 2 was driven 350 feet and had to be 
pumped to keep it dry. Coal was brought to the mouth of the tunnel 
in mine cars, dumped into a skip, and hoisted up over the bluff by a 
square framed derrick which spilled into a railroad car standing on 
the spur. At the west end of the railroad a vertical three-compartment 
shaft was sunk over 25 feet and a tunnel was started on coal in the sea 
bluff to connect with the shaft. This third or Kay tunnel was driven 
125 feet. All work on this property was discontinued in March, 1902, 
but the company holds possession by retaining a representative on the 
ground. 
Detailed sections of two seams exposed in the sea bluff near tunnel 
No. 2, the position of which in the section of the formation given 
above can be recognized by their total thickness, follow. 
The first and thickest seam, which is over 50 feet below the top of 
the bluff at the hoist, measures thus: 
Coal seam at mine camp, Kachemak Bay. 
Ft. in. 
Bony coal and clay 2 
Clay shale 1 8 
Coal 2 6 
Clay parting 2 
Coal _ .1 1 
Total 7 5 
Following is the section of the bed on which the tunnels were 
driven: 
Coal seam at mine camp, Kachemak Bay. 
Ft, in 
Coal 3 ' 
Clay parting h 
Coal 1 11 
Clay parting H 
Coal 1 5 
Total 6 6 
Other seams of coal that lie below those named in the long section 
above are found below high tide off the point beyond Coal Creek. 
The coal in the section at the mine camp is hard, compact, glossy 
lignite. It is clean, does not smut the hands, and tends to break into 
cubical fragments when dried. 
COAL BEDS EAST OF HOMER SPIT. 
The first prominent coal locality inside Homer spit is the Bradley 
seam, on the beach a short distance southwest of Fritz Creek, a small 
creek 6 miles northeast of the spit (PI. III). The outcrop of (lie 
Bradley seam runs from the bluff obliquely across the beach with an 
average northward dip of about 15°. Although this seam aggregates 
