JEFFERSON COUNTY. : LA 
Lenticular nodules of pyrites occur here weighing from one to fifty 
pounds. The pyrites band is persistent, and the coal is easily mined. 
The rocks between Coal No. 8 and the railroad level show little of 
interest. The Crinoidal Limestone was seen at several localities along 
the creeks emptying into the Ohio, and seems to hold a regular horizon 
about two hundred and twenty-five feet below No. 8. On MeIntyre’s 
Creek, a thin coal about six inches thick occurs nearly one hundred feet. 
below that bed. 
Near the mouth of Rush Run, Messrs. Peck & Rumsey mine Coal No. 6, 
‘by means of a shaft two hundred and sixty-eight feet deep. The coal 
is seven feet thick, including a roof coal of two feet, which is very poor 
and full of pyrites. Followed north-westward in the mine, this roof 
thins out and leaves five feet of good coal. Pyrites occurs throughout 
the bed in nodules, but is irregularly distributed. The lower bench is 
much softer than the upper. This coal yields a brilliant gas, but owing 
to the large percentage of sulphur, cannot be used profitably in gas 
manufacture. The slack makes a handsome but not compact coke. Fire- 
damp accumulates in the abandoned portions of this mine, but does not 
prove troublesome. 
Wayne Township.—Here Coal No. 8 lies far up in the hills, while the 
general surface is rather lower than in Smithfield township. The aver- 
age altitude of the coal above the Pan-Handle Railroad is probably not 
far from two hundred and sixty feet. It is worked near Bloomfield at 
various points along the road leading from Unionport to York. At 
Bloomfield the main coal is from four feet six inches to four feet nine 
inches, and the roof coal is about one foot thick. 
About half a mile south from Unionport this coal is mined by Mr. J. 
Ferguson and Mr. 8. Cannan. At a short distance from these openings, 
which are two hundred and ninety feet above Unionport, the following 
section is seen in the road: | 
1. Partially exposed, chiefly sandstone with two layers of 
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Here, then, the interval between 8 and 10 has been reduced to sixty 
feet, and the strata intervening between Coal No.8 and the sandstone 
under Coal No. 10, have entirely disappeared, viz.: one hundred and 
fifteen feet of limestone, twenty-five of sandstone, and the included 
Coals No. 8a and 8c, all of which occur in Mt. Pleasant township. 
In the section just given, Coal No. 8 appears to have no roof coal. At 
