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near Cadiz Junction, an opening shows the roof-coal 8 inches, fire-clay 
1 foot, and coal 4 feet ten inches. The coal throughout is of good quality. 
The bed was followed into Rumley township, but there are no openings 
there. This is somewhat strange, when we consider that that township 
is supplied with coal from Jefferson. At several points along the road. 
from Jefferson to Rumley the bed is to be seen underlying patches of 
from ten to twenty acres, with a good roof, and seventy feet below the 
hill-tops. Some of these patches contain not less than 350,000 bushels 
of sound coal, liberal deduction beine made for unsound coal about the 
margin. Under the circumstances, these remnants, spared from erosion, 
might be profitably worked by their owners, and much would be saved 
to consumers. 
In the central portion of Archer township the greater part of the coal 
has been removed by erosion, and most of what remains is in detached 
portions, from twenty to fifty acres in extent, and lying near the tops of 
the hills. Along the eastern and northern lines coal No. 8 is readily ac- 
cessible, and worked to a considerable extent for domestic use. At Mr. 
Nathaniel McFadden’s opening, in section 7, the coal is as follows: 
FT. IN 
COIS ies iF hea Se Aa FE SN Se ae a 1lto 10 
POM YS C2 ee es i se ge oa at Sd le NA end, maa eed ee 0 4-6 
(GOR eo BS Cio eerie cet SCH arte nee ek cet ent ah aga EN) Re SESS Aas 5-5 6 
At this bank the upper pyrites band does not appear, and the upper 
bench is thirty-one inches thick to the upper parting. This coal is said 
to be remarkably pure, there being no pyrites apparent, and is so favor- 
ably regarded by blacksmiths that it is hauled for their use to a distance 
of eight or ten miles. At Mr. J. Atkinson’s opening, in section 16, the 
roof-coal appears to be absent, and the section is: 
EEN 
CORN Se Sheet Lae ame ho lS a Mehta a Re RS A) EELS 0 6 
Pyrites band 3 : 0 4tol 
CO Ss be CHE AOE SSIS Cs ae eS TEU ne STO En 1 6 
PEPTIC SS SEs GIS ood Bo ORE a Eee Tere ese EN IO ee 0 3 
CHOI diay aes Spee ee a Beh Ae a i hor CL aA al A ORO 
J ETE AY Ee PR Sree RBCs SiC 9 a I ie 6 Re 0 1 
COL BS et eesti tee Okita ae ie a ee BA feed AUN ee 1 2 
ty 4 5) 
The opening of Mr. Henry Eslick, in the same neighborhood, shows a 
similar section. Twoand one-half miles south of Fairview some deserted 
banks show a thickness of four feet six inches. At the infirmary the 
bed is five feet. This coal is seen at Mr. Feck’s opening, in North town- 
