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banks already in operation. At Mr. J. ©. Pickens’s opening we find it 
somewhat more than two hundred and sixty feet above the creek, and 
showing the following section : 
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Bs OMEN o666h5 6000 066460 GBC BOODS0 COBO86 UO G00 CCOSCGH Ie) EGMp 
8%. (OG coson ERA eye Nalowia oclave Soins Sea wtsecudemectaiss. 2 feot 6 inehes: 
AL, PEEVES ond DOGO88 660850 C0860) S550GN 61d 90080066 PAP MING IE 
MEO OER ETE seas ic cddaaiiccc\s facades fo0b;2 Inches, 
By TEA MENT 55 6G8 6006 GO0A8d 5060 CIOS00 CHACON CHIE cb00e0 CI IKeel) 
eee COD Ss ee aielae = ES Urata ee ar GE O00 C8 BECI0 05086 ofodoa a 1h TOL Tene ey 
Sh INDE-CEW cond be50cd doGdan odad 6odan0 Gododagosooece Lato 
We) JUIN) pada SOO OCE BOUG COOCHE BON OCR ee assescs 5 feet, 
The coal is of very fair quality, and for the most part quite clean, but 
in No. 5, the “brick coal,” nodules of pyrites occur, which weigh from 
twenty to fifty pounds. These are suriounded by soft coal, and are easily 
detached. 
The same coal was worked at one time near the still-house on Little 
Short Creek, but the openings have long been deserted. The thickness 
is said to be not far from five feet. The limestone overlying the coal is 
about forty feet thick, and is sufficiently good in portions to be used as a 
flux. For this purpose it is quarried near Portland, and shipped thence 
to the furnaces at Steubenville and in the vicinity of Wheeling. 
The strata above Coal No. S are not fully exposed at any locality within 
the township. On the ridge road from Portland to Mt. Pleasant, the fol- 
lowing imperfect section was observed: 
FT. 
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QUE On NO Tne emeene iain Mac mame um iane dm Alan ane eo irs ate eeae Se Fe ai 1 
3. Sandstones and shales, with some flaggy limestones.....4 22054 -0-5--- 130 
4. Limestone, very imperfectly exposed...4....- grasa rere BAO SONS sagona oy 
3. Coal No. 8c—blossom only. 
§. Sandstone, somewhat shaly.-.--.. 5 ODOC BOISCO BH OOH CODA O6bauH COdddeS | Py) 
7. Limestone—exposure imperfect. ...2.. 22. -ao sce cece es were eae ceenee-s AO 
Sum ConleNous—=- DIOSSOMMONIYiomes taceiene aiecl Sa smut nerg censswicc soos cedecce, D 
Below the coal the rocks are for the most part uninteresting. The sec- 
tion is as follows: | 
FT. 
1. Coal No. 8. 
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SMT ESGON Cys sm ieee eee ata ake cia are aiuval Daceie alnGie lay ae's a atu ty Saar ste ae Bey 8) 
A, Shales and sandstones............-.0- OO CIS OPIOO DATO COCCI OSC RISO IOC He weed 
5. Limestone, somewhat conglomerate..... DO ACB SETI O000 6o4G codd.cadocseaa 4 
Gwe Shalestand isan dstonescccaceo secu oes occa esas calclsucem cues Yooodode IOV 
(ACTIN OLdalglbin EStONe mes eees cicicec ceeeen es cee BRS SCICONEO WiesiNelac/scce cals mae) 
&; Shales and sandstone to creek ..s60. db SE6 SSASA0 6A5S55 SSdObe dddd Sdda do 5 
