JEFFERSON COUNTY. TAL 
tween the “Clay Coal” and that marked No. 5 (?) in the section, no seam 
of workable thickness has been developed. 
The coal called No. 5 has been opened in several places, but is reported 
to be slaty and inferior. Between two hundred and twenty-five and two 
hundred and forty-three feet above this, a coal was formerly worked on 
Mr. Taggart’s farm, but the mine was abandoned long since on account 
of the inferior quality of the coal. Near the tops of the hills are two 
coal outcrops with fragments of an overlying buff limestone probably 
belonging to the Pittsburgh series, although the coals have not been 
opened. Two and a half miles south-west of McCoy’s a coal is worked 
on the farm of Mr. John Winns. It is reported to be four feet in thick- 
ness, and is apparently the same mined at Knoxville, which is Coal No. 8. 
The difference in level between the corresponding members of the sec- 
tion at McCoy’s and New Cumberland has already been referred to. The 
distance between the two points of observation is scarcely a mile, but by 
comparing the levels of Coal No. 3, the “ Clay Seam,” and Coal No. 7, the 
“Prentiss Coal,” it is seen that the dip is westerly about fifty feet. 
The section at New Cumberland is as follows: 
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2. Coal No 7—“‘ Prentiss” or ‘‘ Groff” coal .......---.------------ 4to5 ‘¢ 
3. Fire-clay with ferruginous limestone ..........---.-.----.-.-. Sis 
4, Interval showing in places massive sandstone ...--.-......--.. 208 
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Several deep wells have been bored at New Cumberland. One of these 
was begun about twenty-five feet above the river, and carried to the 
depth of one thousand and one hundred feet. According to the report 
of the drillers the register of this well was briefly as follows: 
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