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analysis buff Bulletin 22 Bureau of Mines C. E. Krebs Campbell Creek Cannelton cent cliff Coal & Coke Coal bed Coal Opening-No coal sampled Coal Slate Coal Test Boring Coalburg columnar dark drift mouth east elevation examined by author Falls District Fayette County Fayetteville Fayetteville District feet Fire clay Fire Creek Coal Fork fossils Gauley River Geol gray grayish-white Guyandot hard Herberton Hite Hughes Ferry Inches Kanawha County Kanawha District Kanawha Group Kanawha River Knob Lime Limestone Lower Nuttall Map II McDowell County Meadow River mile northwest minable Mine-No Nicholas County Pottsville Series pounds Powellton Prospect-No published by Dr published in Chapter Quinnimont Raleigh County reported republished Sand Sandstone sandy Section B sample Sewell Coal Shale slate floor soft splint stratigraphic position Table Teets thickness and stratigraphic thickness of bed tons Total U. S. Bureau U. S. Geological Survey Volume II(A west hillside White Winifrede
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Page xxxiii - PART I. History and Physiography. CHAPTER I. HISTORICAL AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT. LOCATION. Fayette County, the area described in this Report, is situated just south of the central portion of West Virginia, being included between the parallels of 37° 49' and 38° 17' North Latitude, and 81° 23' and 80° 45' West Longitude from Greenwich.
Page 58 - The bed of the river here is rock, with large boulders on the bottom, which cause eddies and boils at high stages. The bottom has been carefully determined and by using standard soundings and care in making measurements the discharge can be determined with accuracy. The datum of the gage has remained constant during the maintenance...
Page 723 - II(A) about 2 months after the disastrous explosion on January 28, 1907, when 90 miners lost their lives. The Stuart Shaft is 5620 feet N. 68^° E. from the Parral Shaft (now Summerlee) which was then owned by the same Company; namely, the Stuart Colliery Company, of Macdonald, W. Va. The New River Company took over the operation of the mine soon after the date mentioned above.
Page 72 - Daily Gage Height, in Feet, of Gauley River near Belva, W. Va., for 1912. (CL Davis, observer). Note. — Relation of gage height to discharge probably affected by ice Jan. 7-19 and Feb. 7-18. Observer reported as follows: Jan. 16, river entirely frozen over; ice about 4 inches thick, control partly frozen; Jan. 20, no ice; Feb. 4, river open in middle, ice along shore 2 inches thick, control open; Feb. 11, ice along shore 4 inches thick, ice broken up at control; Feb. 21, no ice.
Page 941 - Kincaid, 0.97 mile south of, 8 feet west of Virginian Ry., on outside of long curve, 100 feet west of Loop Creek, in sharp bend, 500 feet south of mile-post "DW-10...
Page 913 - ... localities would make the cost of condemnation prohibitive. As these coal seams approach exhaustion under the rapidly developing mining operations in the not far remote future, then this vast permanent source of energy should be drawn upon. The five follow-ing tables, showing the indicated horsepower developed by the above-mentioned streams and the location of reservoir sites, are taken from pages 399, 404-5, and 412-13 of the Semi-Centennial History of West Virginia, by Dr. JM Callahan, the...
Page 76 - The datum of the gage has remained unchanged. The records are reliable and accurate. Sufficient data have not been obtained to enable estimates of the flow to be made.
Page 587 - Loss due to unconsumed hydrogen and hydrocarbons, to heating the moisture in the air, to radiation and unaccounted for. (Some of these losses may be separately itemized if data are obtained from which they may be calculated).
Page 263 - White56, belonging at their type locality — Eagle, in the territory of this Report — 90 to 100 feet below the Eagle Coal and 75 to 80 feet below the Little Eagle bed, and both together ranging in thickness from 5 to 20 feet, are probably the most persistent "key-rocks" of the Pottsville Series of West Virginia. The author has personally traced this marine horizon from Camden-on-Gauley in western Webster County, southwestward across Nicholas, Fayette, Kanawha, Boone, Logan and Mingo Counties to...
Page 935 - Morgan, on west end of south abutment of bridge "132" over Beaver Creek; chiseled cross, marked "2103" 2.101 72 Quinnimont West Along Chesapeake & Ohio Railway to Raleigh (Leveled Twice). Quinnimont, 46 feet south of station, in top of north abutment at west side of railroad bridge; aluminum tablet stamped "1200...