Excerpt from Coal Resources of the Russell Fork Basin in Kentucky and Virginia II. A, Log rafts on Big Sandy River; B, Cliffs of Lee con glomerate in the Breaks of Big Sandy, north end of Pine Mountain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... northwest at the Henry Clay mine and showed a bed 4 feet 5 inches thick (50). At Cynthia Gibson's, on Lick Branch of Sycamore, a 70-foot drift shows this coal 5 feet thick (53), and on Henry Bowen's land, at the head of Sycamore (54), the bed is 3 feet 6 inches thick. The first exposure up Cassell Fork is at the Greenough mine, where there is a bed of solid coal (64) nearly 4 feet thick. A sample of the whole bed at this mine was taken by the writer and the resulting analysis will be found on page 72. At the Pike mine, a mile up the fork (62) the bed is less than 3 feet thick and the upper 5 inches is bony or mashed. Farther up Cassell Fork there are several prospects exposing the Upper Elkhorn. Among these are a pit on Flemon Childers's land (58) and a trench on the Musgrave place which show the bed from 3 feet 3 inches to 3 feet 9 inches thick, the upper 8 inches being bony or laminated. At the Edgewater mine, on the head of Marrowbone Creek, the Upper Elkhorn coal is nearly 4 feet thick. The main entry shows 2 feet 8 inches of solid coal at the mouth and 2 feet 10 inches at the face (66), the rest being bony or laminated. An average of 9 sections measured on this creek gives a fraction over 3 feet for the thickness of the solid or marketable coal. 62 58 66 C7 Marrowbone Creek, Cassell Fork, Marrowbone Creek, bl Pike mine Flemon Childers Edgewater mine AshcampGap 81 Pigeon Branch of Elkhorn Creek Fig. 11.--Upper Elkhorn coal sections. Flatwoods coal.--An approximation of the area underlain by the Flatwoods coal is shown on the accompanying map (PI. I). The strati graphic position is 500 to 550 feet above the Upper Elkhorn. It has been prospected but little. A measurement of the bed was made at the head of Cassell Fork in a trench cut...

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