Field Notebook: MD 1945a
Page 95
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142 Area underlain by clay. Patches gray-white soft clay exposed. Some flint chips near road where quulley crosses rd. 143. Seep along road. In woods to E old test pit put down by Mathias of U.F.O. co. Letter says shallow, in wash of flint frags & soft clay all the way. Probably was just of crop where streams had worked material. Two gulley just to N are full of the clay fragments. 144. Drill holes put down by Marshall Mckenzie for Baltimore interest. M-1 and M-2 are located fairly accurately. M-3 group of 3 approximate, M-4 in approx area. According to Mckenzie M-1 - 15' to base of 30" coal seam M-2 - 30' to base of 30" coal seam M-3 - Cut 48" coal with knife blade binders 4-8" from base. Mck is not so sure of third hole in SW corner. (Continued in Book 2)