The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-09-19
Pennsylvania s Erie Railway.


of Johnson's Run we compile the fol-
lowing from a report of Joseph Lesley,
Esq, dated January II, 1865, !relative
to the "Roberts Tract" in warrants
25SS, 2610, 1898 and 1896. 1.-THE coal
measures are divided into four systems;
the lower Goals (sub-conglomerate),
the middle Goals, the barren measures,
and the upper Goals. The first-named
comprise those Goals lying under the
great conglomerate (No. XII of Penn
sylvania survey.) These Goals in S.
w. Virginia and S. E. Kentucky are
strongly developed in number and |
thickness, but are not so in Pennsyl-
vania. The Goals found on your prop |
erty are in the middle system, which |
comprises three groups, each taking |
the name of the locality where it has |
peen best studied. The lower, or
Tionesta group rests directly on the |
great conglomerate, and is separated
from the middle one by the Tionesta
sandrock, which supports the Clarion
group capped by the so-called Freeport
sandstone, which last serves as the
| base of the third or Freeport group, the
whole being divided from the Barren
Measures by the tripple-bedded mass
| of the Mahoning sandstone. The cele-
brated 'ferriferous limestone,' with its
everything iron-ore, occupies position
about midway of the system, and in
the Clarion group. The coal seams lie
in waves running parallel in direc-
ton southwest and northeast; but
they do not, in this course lie horizon.
tai; on the contrary, they rise in the
direction northeast, and as the surface
of the country does not rise in that di-
crests of these waves are cut off, thus
leaving troughs or basins containing
Goals, which have been represented as
fingers. These fingers have been num-
bered from one to six. In the fifth
finger or basin, and in that part of it
known locally as the 'Johnson's Run
Basin,' is located the Roberts Tract
You will see by the following section
that the strata of your property belong
to the middle coal system, and to that
part of it lying below the Freeport
sandstone. In making this section, L
would say that, owing to the wildness
of the country, the roundness of the
hills, with but few terraces, the almost
entire absence of rock exposure in any
force, and the few examinations made,
it will be necessarily imperfect, but
accurate enough to warrant the in
vestment of capital in thorough ex.
animation.
SECTION.
} 60 feet. Top of Pistner Hill.
Coal thickness not deter
, mined.
3 #. 2 in. coal, Gas vein.,
, RI #. 6 in. iron ore.
" O" LIMESTONE.
i" " coal found at LimeKiln
(-Coal, thickness not known.
, Cool, Lime Coal place
on g nor thickness accurately
oo determined.
Goal, thin seam.
Cool, thin seam.
#. 0 in. coal, lower camel.
IS" sandstone, states and shales
, 8 #. 6 in. coal, SHAFT VEIN.
20"
, 2ft. DIN. coal, camel and btu
minous.
20"
2 #. in. coal.
20"
Aft. 0 in coal, Bond vein.'
, 16"
:, 2 #. in. coal.
= Tionesta sandrock.
ss s 400" l" o" sists sHsl; and snare or balls
" 2 coal.
= 80" compact gray sandstone
: 0" 6 coal, shale and iron ore
d 40" SERIAL CoNGLoMERATE
The part of this section, from the
dotted line down, is obtained from the
Report of A. F. Dalsen. The upper
: portion is from personal examination
i made in the summer of 1864. 1t will
be seen that the coal measures in the
Johnson's Run basin measure at theil
{ thickest part 443 feet exclusive of tn,
conglomerate sandrock, and that, ac
cording to Dalsen, they contain sever
y :, coal veins below the Shaft VEN. Now
assuming that the Shaft vein is th'
;, equivalent of the so-called 6-feet vein
: in the two basins 9th and Sd basins
? to the eastward, then we may con
, fidently count on three out of thes,
seven as being of workable thickness
Dalsen gives the one under the shaft a
feet 6 inches in thickness; also, on,
locally called the Bond vein,' whicl
s he reports as being from feet inche
n to feet thick. The 'Splint vein il
It also reported by the same gentleman
as being under the conglomerate. A
r the result of my own examinations il
q the next basin east, can say that on
&c of these veins measures taking al
average of numerous openings) fee
inches. Another vein 2 feet 1
:. inches; and in Benefits Branch tn
= lowest vein is double one, and show
;, feet inches of good coal. Abov