Kentucky. Cumberland River. Arthur M. Miller. Aug. 10. 1902. Letter. Dut Fishing Creek West of Somerset, Pulaski Co. Ky. On Somerset-Columbia road. 1100 1000 Flinty layers Shaly LS Waverly Shale Covered 800 Black Shale 42' 8" Hard (Mg?) LS 23' 10" Massive Edge LS 5' Thin bedded SS. 2' Bridge 700 [illegible] there is a strong dip to the eastward here or the dropping out of the layers above the Clinton and below the Black Shale in exposing the stream accounts for the lower elevation of its formations in the east side. I could not certainly identify the formations immediately following the shale on the west side, as could find no fossils. Found ripple marked and micaceousbed Flinty layers Cherty LS Flinty layers Thin bedded Dark colored Mainly shale micridal forwards base. Black Shale 45 feet Clinton 16 ft Thin bedded sandy -8ft (the latter very fine) Cumberland SS, as low est layers at foot of hill on west side, and thin bedded sandy layers not exactly like it this immediately below Clinton on the east side. The Black Shale rests immediately on micaceous Clinton on this side. Some peculiar crinoid bottoms are abundant, and the lithological characters are exactly like the rocks at the mouth of Cub Creek. I have leveled 16 ft. 1, three layers. I found this Fishing Creek section very interesting and would like very much to revisit the locality again sometime in company with you. It is 5 miles from Somerset. Section opposite oil well at Cloyd's Landing about 9 miles below Burlesville, Cumberland Co. Ky. well burned 10 days before the fire was put out and flow was gotten under control. Well starts in fossiliferous Hudson, about 145 feet below base of the Shale; and gets to oil at a depth of 440-450 feet below the surface - making the oil horizon for this section about 600 feet below the top of the Hudson, where the full Camp bellment of Hudson beds are present. I suspect a thin- ning out of the Hudson beds southward from here, as the section at the Middle Hudson (Barred SS) at Martinsburg within 2 miles of the Tenn. line, would seem to indicate. This 700 Black Shale Hudson Madison beds in coutact with Black Shale 600 Cumberland River 500