Field Notebook: MD 1945a
Page 109
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This is one of best prospects for a strip mine in soft clay in basin. Draw back is that land under 99 year lease to state- 34 Crop of Lower Bakerstown coal and Meyersdale red beds. 35 Coal crop, may be either Upper or Lower Bakerstown. 36 seeps - several along old road. ✓ 37 Old opening, presumably in Lower Bakerstown. Oester mine. Caved. ✓ 38. s Mine in Lower Bakerstown. Mrs. Dennis Bremelman. (Working summer 49) 39 Prospect in Brush Creek coal, many fossils in material on dump. A second prospect to W on hill did not go to the coal. N39°E, 90°W Henry Beitzel. on roof shales