JEFFERSON COUNTY. 749 
A little further south, on the same property, the workable coal of the 
preceding section is shown in its relative position with three seams 
above it. The section is us follows: 
1. Gray shale. 
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3. Clay shale...--. 0-2-2. eee cence e come ee ewes ene n ne cane nee 18 feet. 
Wh (CRB oo 5000 066060 655000 660556 606500 B8G006 660000 66500 6006 6056 12 inches. 
5. Sandstone and shale... --- oo... cen e wc ees como nw coe cee aoce 18 feet. 
6. Coal No. 7 (2). ---2- ec enn e conn ne coe nnn cee een ne eee ne woes 24 to 3 feet. 
7.. Interval concealed’... ooo ce coe oi nae onan ones wae nnn cn wnoe 54 feet. 
8. Coal No. 6 (?) or grade of railroad ........---..----.--------- 2 
9, Fire-clay and sandstone to river........---...----.---------- A ce 
By reference to the section at Sloan’s Station it will be seen that the 
upper workable coal has two thin coals above it, just as here; and as 
these lie at the base of the Barren Measures, we may consider the upper 
workable coal of the section, next below the two little seams, as Coal 
No. 7. 
At Sloan’s Station, the distance between Coal No. 7 and the ‘“lime- 
stone coal” (No. 5) is eighty-five feet; between Coal No. 7 and the next 
coal below it, in the Wells property, the distance is only fifty-four feet. 
Hence, if the coals are the same in both sections, they have approached 
each other thirty-one feet in three miles. This is no unusual thing for 
coal seams to do, but it is quite possible that the lower seam at Wells’s is 
not the same as the “limestone coal” at Sloan’s Station. There is appa- 
rently no limestone below it, and if we are right in our enumeration of 
the coals at Sloan’s, Coal No. 6 belongs in the blank interval where the 
hard clay is at Sloan’s, and it is quite possible that it has made its ap- 
pearance at Wells’s mine. Unfortunately, the heavy bed of sandstone 
which forms the immediate bank and bed of the river has obliterated the 
record below, so that, without further exploration, it is impossible to 
settle this question. 
From Jeddo to Brown’s Station the Cumberland (or No. 7) coal has 
been much sought for, but without success. 
On Island Creek, however, it has been found and worked in several 
places. It is here known as the “Finley Coal.” It is worked on the 
Moreland farm, but is reported as running down to two feet, and even 
disappearing altogether. The following is a section from the summit 
of the hills to Moreland’s mine, and_thence to Island Creek: 
1. Slope covered.......----....------------------------- 70 feet. 
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3. Slope mostly covered, olive shales and sandstones near 
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