MEIGS CREEK COAL. 1085 
nut coal per day. The Upper Barnesville coal is shown in the west end 
of the Flushing tunnel, on the C., L. &@ W. R. R. The section is as. 
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At the east end of the tunnel the coal is below grade, and does not. 
show for some distance east of the tunnel. No solid rock appears in 
the deep cut at the entrance to the tunnel. 
About Bellaire the Meigs Creek, Upper Barnesville, or Upper 
Bellaire coal is found, 4 feet thick, and 80 to 95 feet above the bottom 
of the Pittsburgh coal. Although the Upper Bellaire coal is 4 feet 
thick, and as easy to get at as the Pittsburgh seam, it is not mined at 
all, and very little account is made of it. The thicker and better Pitts- 
burgh coal meets all demands. 
In Washington township, Belmont county, on the B., Z. & C. R. R. 
(narrow-gauge), the ‘Captina Coal Co. has a shaft to the Pittsburgh 
coal. The Upper Bellaire, or Meigs Creek coal, is here found 98 feet 
above the bottom ef the Pittsburgh coal. It is reported 4 feet thick, 
and of the usual Meigs Creek coal character. It formerly supplied the 
local market, but since the Pittsburgh coal has been available the mines 
in it have been abandoned, and, therefore, no section could be had. 
The Meigs Creek coal was found in the high ridges in the eastern 
part of Harrison county. 
The Pittsburgh coal is in good force through this region, and, 
therefore, there is little regard for the thinner and poorer seam that lies 
above it. The coal is reported from 3 to 4 feet thick, but no sections 
were found. The coal is from 90 to 95 feet above the Pittsburgh coal. 
The Meigs Creek coal is also found in the south-west corner of 
Jefferson county. It is here near the hill-tops, and thinner than usual, 
and is not worked. The Pittsburgh coal is of usual thickness and 
quality through this area. 
NOTE. 
I regret very much that lack of time for the preparation of reports and lack of 
space for publication, alike forbid any further statements as to the coal seams of the 
Barren and Upper Coal Measures of the State. 
The field which has been treated in the preceding chapter is intrinsically much 
