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the lower great sandstone bed of the coal measures, about one hundred 
and ninety feet below the gray limestone. Two miles cast from West 
Bedford is Sproule’s coal bank, three feet thick, the coal very sulphury, 
no cannel init. Johnson’s mine, half a mile further east, and Marshall’s 
still farther in this direction, exhib.t the same characters. The bed is 
evidently the same at the three places, and is supposed to be No 4, though 
the gray limestone is not seen near it. No good coal is found in the cen- 
tral and southern part of the township, and the blacksmiths depend upon 
coal brought from Parks opening in No. 6, in the northeast corner of 
Washington township. The same bed could no doubt be found in the 
south part of Bedford, as near the school house, not a mile south from 
Sproule’s mine, the following outcrops are observed from the blue lime- 
stone up. The gray limestone fifty feet higher, four feet thick; coil out- 
crop (No. 6), eighty feet up. Above the school house: coal outcrop, one 
hundred and twenty-five feet up; top of the hill, one hundred and eighty 
feet above the blue limestone, reddish brown sandstone. 
Section on Sproule’s farm, east of West Bediord, Bedford township. 
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Soil and drift. 
Gray limestone. 
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Coal No. 1. 
Jackson.—In the northwest corner of this township, coal No. 4 is worked 
on the farm of Abm. Haines, near the summit of the hills. The bed is 
four feet thick, and the coal appears to be of gocd quality; has no cannel 
seams. Its roof is shale, three inches thick, and over this is the gray 
limestone, six feet ten inches thick. From the bottom of this limestone 
it is twenty four feet to the blue limestone exposed in the run below, 
mixed with chert, and overlying a cannel coal bed, the thickness of which 
isnot known. As both these coal beds attain large dimensions on the 
other side of Simmons Creek, in Jefferson and Bedford townships, they 
may be expected to occur in other places in the northwest part of Jack- 
son, also, of workable size; but the only locality in Jackson where either 
is opened is in the extreme corner of the township. Toward Roscoe, over 
the high lands to the south of the Walhonding River, the summits are 
far above the plane of these beds, and between four and one-half and five 
and one-half miles from Roscoe, the outcrops of two coal beds are observed, 
