Field Notebook: MD 1945a
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72. Abandoned mine. Property of Silas Beechy who says it is Harlem. Shale with plant fossils but no marine fossils on dump. Caved. 73. s Abandoned mine (not caved '48) opened by Jim Knox. Maylan Bender said to have worked it last. 74. Coal prospect. root, 6" coal + fireclay bottom reported. 75 Verbal section of drill hole put down by Jake Beitzel here - J.B. says "Slate 25 ft, Coal 6", fire clay bottom. 76. s Abandoned mine opening on W side Negro Mt. Crest. Coal and black shale on dump. Opened by Jake + Louis Beitzel. 77 Abandoned and caved mine opened by Silas Ashe 78 3. Openings of Raymond Klotz. Attitude shale Three splits. Middle one sectioned. 79 Old (70yr) prospect of Peter Opel, now filled in with field stone. Opel reports 15" coal overlain by black shale. Thought to be 'fossil' by Opel. Trush Cr. L.B.