Oct 3, 1902 Friday. Ben Hur, Va. walked in the morning to Pennington Gap and then into the gap itself cutting the crest fork of the Powell river. Just where the small streams come out of the Powel valley and unite with the Powel river and when they cross there the heavy bedded sandstones of the Redwood stand on end. From here to Pennington Gap itself can be seen here through as hanging rocks in the distance, probably 2 miles, the great Lee conglomerate. Towards the village, here and there, can be seen the Lower Silurian section and the village is built upon the heavy bedded white to blue limestone, the same as the lands beds are about Ben Hur. Looking outward from Ben Sneads house at Ben Hur one can see across the top of Powel Valley Ridge to the crest of the next ridge the top of which has the Lee conglomerate. From this point outward is mined coal and the strata lie almost horizontal. Coal mining begins at once the Cretaceous structures.