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by timbered and has caved in. The next above in
 
Thurs. Aug 8/95

The main coal seam has (Bag 131 coal from lower bed Zachareffskaia Bay Bag 143 coal from layer over 131.) an 18 inch seam of dull coal [[superscript]] 131 [[/superscript]] fairly free from slate, above this half a dozen small seams of 4-5 inches thick of impure coal, partly brilliant and partly dull, [[superscript]] 143 [[/superscript]] the fissures much reddened by iron oxide and with many thin sandy or shaly laminae, in spots iron pyrites is very abundant. These seams are separated by wider bands of carbonaceous aluminous shale or gray sandy layers. 
The tunnel from which this coal was obtained is about six feet by eight or ten and runs in about 20 ft. It