Field Notebook: MD 1945a
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114. 3. Old Boucher Mine in Upper Freeport. (QS-87) Several caved openings with shale roof showing. 115. Caved openings in gulley below Boucher Mine. Coal (boney) + shale on dump, seepage up gulley & down. Lower than coal in Boucher mine, may be Lower Freeport. 116. Old caved mine. Opened on crop & mined down dip. 117. Jame P. Willey opening in coal. Supposedly about 3' coal here. Now caved but over 2' smut on crop. 118. Old openings in Upper Freeport made by James P. Willey. Three in all. Coal reported to be (by Snyder) 25 to 30" above, binder 45" below. 119. Burkholder opening, caved, in coal. Shale roof, thickness of coal not known.