Field Notebook: MD 1945a
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20. coal smut in road gutter. Coal blossom plowed up by Beitzel in corner of field. 21 Coal smut in road gutter. Fed. Hill or Barton 22 Bank of Ames shale on N. side of road. Harlem coal crops in gutter at base of shale. Attitude. 23 Slope mine to Lower Bakerstown. Connects underground with Beitzel mine(24). Opened by Fred. Bittinger. Abandoned + caved. 24 Beitzel mine. Lower Bakerstown. (John. Beitzel) This entry now abandoned. See #56 entry just across road. 25 Old opening in Brush Creek coal, caved and abandoned. No info. 26. Carbonaceous shale and some coal smut. Below this some soft clay and then seam of flint clay as follows. 6"+ somewhat silty semiflint.