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Book Title: Counties Of Warren, Benton, Jasper And Newton, Indiana

COAL.

   "The coal measures occur next in order of time. They lie directly upon the
conglomerate and in outcrop occupy the regions south and west of that deposit,
in area more than one-half of the county. The outcrop of coal may be traced from
near the Ohio River in Dubois and Pike Counties to the middle of Warren County.
Good, choice semi-block coal is found in the lower stream on Possum Run, at
Steely's farm, at Adamson's and J. Briggs', from two to three and one-half feet
thick. On Fall Creek, all the banks furnish choice block coal, free from
sulphur, well suited for smelting iron and with an average of three feet in
thickness. The dark, bituminous limestone roof is almost invariably present,
ranging from one to four feet, sometimes changing to a calcareous shale. It is
well developed at Mains mill on Red Wood, where huge blocks are laid bare in the
bottom of the creek. Here the stone is high colored, homogeneous and compact.
Specimens have been dressed by workmen. Locally, it is known as black marble.
Fat coking coal, containing much sulphur, outcrops on Mud Pine, at Briscoe's and
at Wilson's bank, at the head of Fall Creek. The product at this point meets a
ready market. The seam ranges from six to eighteen inches in thickness. The roof
of this coal seam generally consists of pyritous slate, lean iron stones and
concretions of argillite, of no economic importance as far as visible in the
outcrop. Good coking coal is found at Briscoe's Tinkler's Mines, near West
Lebanon. Block coal is found at Hooper's and Barringer's, on Possum Run, and
nearly as good at Lupold's. on Fall Creek. The lower stratum is generally
crowded with leaves, (Quits and trunks of carboniferous plants, in a remarkable
state of preservation. Near the railway station, Fall Branch plunges from the
summit or an overhanging mass of rock down sixty feet to the valley, and has
thence cut a narrow outlet to the river, affording a first rate section of the
conglomerate sand rock, in massive strata, from twenty to forty feet thick. Here
a choice quarry is worked by the Hon. B. F. Gregory's heirs. As mentioned in the
general outlines, it is probable that in the early ages. Wabash or Pine Creek,
at a high level, flowed through this gap and thence south. At that time, was
formed the valley and terrace plains along the railroad, widening southward to
Bock Creek.


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PART II.
HISTORY OF WARREN COUNTY.
Geology and Settlement

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COUNTIES OF 
Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton,
INDIANA

HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL
ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1883.


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