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There is a large flow of brine from the sandrock No. 5, forced up from 
three to four times a day by gas. The coal—No. 8 of the section—is one 
of the lowest coals of the Coal Measures. Probably the two lower sand- 
rocks belong to the Upper Waverly. It is remarkable that in the four 
hundred and fifty-four feet above this coal no other seams should have 
been found, for this space includes the proper geological horizons of some 
of the most important seams of coal in the State—such as the Sheridan, 
Nelsonville, Jackson Hill, and Anthony seams. It is evident from the 
record of this well, and, indeed, from many other wells near the center 
of our great coal basin, that seams so important along the western mar- 
gin of the coal field have not extended to the middle of the field. The 
conditions favorable to the growth and accumulation of the vegetable 
materials for seams of coal appear not to have existed. 
On the hill back of Mr. O’Neal’s farm we find, one hundred and thirty- 
six feet above the Cambridge fossiliferous limestone, another body of. 
hard blue limestone, about six feet thick. This is the limestone seen in 
the bed of Newell’s Run, at the forks of the stream, near Basil William- 
son’s house. This limestone is ninety-eight feet below the Pomeroy © 
seam of coal, here associated with the buff limestone group. About forty 
feet above the limestone, a little above Williamson’s, on Newell’s Run, 
is a very thin seam of coal. We find traces of this seam in other coun- 
ties. It is probably the equivalent of the Jeffers coal in Gallia county. 
The center of the uplift is found a little east of Williamson’s, on Kerr’s 
Run—a branch of Newell’s Run—where the lower limestone is eighteen 
feet above the bed of the run. There is here, therefore, a western dip. 
On the land of Samuel Kerr, on Kerr’s Run, in section 5, we find the 
Pomeroy seam of coal, with the overlying limestone group, in the bed of 
the stream. A geological section taken here is as follows: , 
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