Report of progress 1874-1889, A-Z .. . the bedcould not be seen. It is said to be about three feet thick,and of medium quality. The Freeport Lower Coal has been opened at severalplaces between Eldorado and North Washington, in thewestern part of the township, but nearly all of these bankshave been abandoned. The bsd lies in the hill tops, withlittle cover, but is said to be usually of good workablesize, though the coal mined from it is quite soft. Its blos-som is also frequently laid bare on the road from Six Pointsto Martinsburg in the central part of the township. It here ggjgf ? 30 _\
Report of progress 1874-1889, A-Z .. . the bedcould not be seen. It is said to be about three feet thick,and of medium quality. The Freeport Lower Coal has been opened at severalplaces between Eldorado and North Washington, in thewestern part of the township, but nearly all of these bankshave been abandoned. The bsd lies in the hill tops, withlittle cover, but is said to be usually of good workablesize, though the coal mined from it is quite soft. Its blos-som is also frequently laid bare on the road from Six Pointsto Martinsburg in the central part of the township. It here ggjgf ? 30 _\/ \/ \ { h 1 T / / / y >— i / \) a , Wm f Creek level. lO PARKER TOWNSHIP. V. 119 varies from two to three feet, and is overlaid by the UpperFreeport sandstone which sometimes measures as much asthirty feet. The section shown in Fig. 106 was compiled from a seriesof exposures near Martinsburg by means of several sur-veyed lines of levels. Martinsburg sectionKittanning Upper (Cannel) Coal, V 2 to V 4 V. 106 2 50 2 4 60 4 14 7 2 9. 20 Fireclay, about Slate. Kittanning Middle Coal, .... Fireclay, Slate and shale, Ferriferous Limestone, .... Soft slaty shale, Clarion Coal Fireclay, Shale, with nodular ore, ....Homewood Sandstone hard and massive, to level of Creek at trestle, The Kittanning Upper and Middle (?) Coal beds are bothopened and worked by the Parker and Karns City R. , in the ravine near the big trestle. They are rather thinbeds, but yield a fair quality of coal. The KittanningLower Coal is absent in this locality. The Kittanning Mid-dle bed lies quite low in the above section, but this may bepartly owing to the violent south dip of the rocks into theMartinsburg Synclinal axis. The Ferriferous Limestone is quite variable in this vi-cinity. In the cutting at the R. R. station it is only fourfeet thick, but many of the oil wells drilled near town aresaid to have found from fifteen to twenty feet of it. OnBear Creek, near the mouth of Story Run and just beforeits
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