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Wellington (B.C.) coal usually used, was decidedly better than Comax coal.
Below this seam is a yard or two of shale and then a parallel seam of brown lignite mixed with bright coal and thin leaves of shale.  This contained many particles of fossil resin and impressions resembling wood fibre.  Owing to the wash over it the full extent and uniformity of this seam could not be distinctly defined but it appeared to include about three feet with the central portion somewhat more shaly than the rest.
Whether this mass was a local thickening of a seam elsewhere thinner or part of a uniform bed can only be determined