418  CONTKIBUTTONS    TO    ECONOMIC    GEOLOGY,  1904.         [bull.  260. 
evidence  of  coal  found  by  the  writer  along  the  beach  of  Freshwater 
Bay  was  on  the  eastern  side,  about  H  miles  east  of  Observatory  Point. 
Here  a  25-foot  scries  of  hard,  alternating  gray  and  brown,  thin- 
bedded  sandstone  strata  outcrops  between  the  fine.  gray,  sandy  shale 
which  is  exposed  for  some  distance  along  this  part  of  the  beach.  The 
sandstone  dips  S.  50c  W.  at  an  angle  of  20°,  and  is  full  of  more  or 
less  altered  fragments  of  wood,  some  of  which  are  6  inches  in  length, 
and  most  of  them  full  of  teredo  borings. 
Mr.  I).  J.  O'Brien,  superintendent  of  the  Port  Angeles  Coal  and 
Coke  Company,  which  is  prospecting  in  this  field  with  the  diamond 
drill,  has  kindly  furnished  the  writer  with  the  following  record: 
Locality  of  hole,  dee})  gulch  about  one-half  mile  south  of  the 
eastern  end  of  Freshwater  Bay;  top  of  hole  approximately  at  >ea 
level. 
Record  of  boring  near  eastern   end  of  Freshwater  Bay,    Washington. 
vt.  in. 
Dark  sandstone 3!)  8 
Coal    0  4 
Gray    sandstone 24  0 
Soft  white  sandstone 17  0 
Sandstone  containing  oyster  shells 10  0 
Sandstone  containing  green  bowlders 10  0 
Sandstone    40  0 
Fire  clay 20  0 
Gray    sandstone 40  0 
Hard  blue  shale :J0  0 
Gray    sandstone 50  0 
Coal    2  2 
Gray   sandstone 240  0 
Coal 4  8 
Total 527     10 
No  samples  of  the  coal  from  any  of  these  beds  were  seen  by  tin 
writer,  but  Mr.  O'Brien  is  authority  for  the  statement  that  it  i 
similar  to  that  found  in  the  Clallam  Bay  field,  described  below.  Thi 
glacial  drift  and  gravel  around  Freshwater  Bay  makes  all  forms  o 
prospecting,  except  with  the  diamond  drill,  almost  impossible,  so  thai 
further  information  concerning  this  field  will  have  to  be  obtaine<| 
by  boring. 
Clallam  Bay  field. — Coal-bearing  sandstones  and  conglomerate 
form  the  Pillar  Point  promontor}^  and  the  bluffs  along  the  Strait  o 
Juan  de  Fuca  from  2J  miles  west  of  Pillar  Point  to  within  2^  mile 
of  Slip  Point,  on  Clallam  Bay.  This  latter  exposure,  which  is  abou 
3J  miles  in  length,  occupies  the  basin  of  a  syncline  whose  axi 
extends  in  a  northeasterly-southwesterly  direction  and  which  i  ' 
truncated  on  the  north  by  the  waters  of  the  strait.  The  southwesterl; 
extension  of  the  syncline  is  rather  problematical,  although  from  state 
