BELMONT COUNTY. 553 
find a mere trace of coal, which probably represents the seam in the 
tunnel at Barnesville. The following is the section in this cut: 
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Level of railroad track. 
At Fairmount Station, or Burr’s Mill, the same group as the last is 
seen in arailroad cut. The only representative of the Barnesville tun- 
nel seam is a black, bituminous shale, immediately over a ferruginous 
limestone. The whole section is as follows: 
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2. ‘Yellow shale at top, with black, bituminous shale below............... 4 0 
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4. Clay (unstratified) shale, blue at top, chocolate-colored below ........ 1 @ 
Level of railroad track. 
The unstratified clay shale corresponds remarkably with that seen in 
the tunnel cut at Barnesville. : 
In the second cut, east of Burr’s Mill, the same group was found as 
before, but with a larger development of limestone. It is given below: 
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6. Blue unstratified clay shale, with soft blue sandstone below........... 14 0 
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Level of railroad track. 
This cut was estimated to be about six hundred feet long, and extends 
in a north-east and south-west direction. The exposed strata in the cut 
dip to the north-east in this short distance about twelve feet, by a proxi- 
mate leveling with Locke’s level. The railroad track is not far from 
level. 
In a valley crossed by an embankment, a little east of this cut, a coal 
seam was found which had been worked by stripping. This coal could 
not be measured, not being well exposed. It is probably too thin for 
drift mining. This seam is thirty-six feet below the level of the railroad 
