Strata passed through in hole No. 1, at Perlee, Jefferson county, for the Washington & Jefferson Coal and Mining Company, starting below the vein, worked at that place.

Blue clay shales..

Fragmentary buff-colored impure limestone..

Blue marley clays, with small fossils

Bluish impure limestone

Blue sand shales, with thin irregularly bedded impure sand rock.

Light blue sand shales, with sandstone partings.

Compact gray fragmentary and concretionary limestone

Blue argillaceous shales and limestone...

Gray argillaceous shales...

Compact light gray concretionary limestone.
Gray marl

Light concretionary limestone, with gray clay partings

Total

37

3

200

I. P. MCELHANY, Tester.

This hole we sank beneath the coal measures from 30 to 40 feet, passing into the older formation.

Strata passed through in hole No. 1, near Eddyuille, in Mahaska county, for J. Mickle & Co.

Strata passed through in hole No. 1, on the lands of A. Cobb, at Lovilia, Monroe

Strata passed through in hole No. 2, one mile west of hole No. 1, near Lovilia.

The peculiarity of this test is the great amount of red material, consisting of red ochre, sandstone, and iron ore-a thickness of 64 feet 8 inches.

Strata at Davis City, Decatur county, for the Davis City Coal and Mining Company.

Leon, Decatur county, hole close to depot, sank to the depth of 200 feet, not