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66. West J Rice Station
m and clay layers, at least 40 ft
Great thickening Black shale above
4 ft thin clay dark brown black shale
2'2" clay
[illegible]
24" inches solid clay, l. [illegible]
18" shale smelly of sulphur very grey.
16 in solid l. wet chert firm - flocculent.
20 ft Coniferous with chert 20-22 ft
[illegible] Gypsum hard as that it
is difficult to drill line. This
Coniferous section is thickened
perfectly from 7 or 10 feet only
to ground chert)
65, 1/2 off way between R R station
R R bridge at Davis;
4" Black shale by 6 ft?
[illegible] layers clay rock in bar
6'ft 6in, Cherty Dark,
next met a canyon at top.
8 in dark sand with Ambrosella
+ [illegible] layer at base)
with 3 in layer dark sandy fish
3 ft 3 in Massive very firm l.
[illegible]
67. E W of tunnel
1. Black shale with alum salts at base,
10ft clay layers in Black shale layers
19ft Black shale, clay layers above
The preceding sect is
[illegible] it should supercede
was no estimate in this sec-
Black Shale. Since then
18 1/2 ft's fromiferous layer base in
sedims.
4 ft hard rock associated with other
16 ft strongly Cherty Dark,
2" Blue clay with
1" firm grayish blue chert
[illegible] clay