Let him that hath understanding count
the number of the beast wbicli is 066.
The number of feet to be drilled
through the conglomerate bed rock
before the other six seams of the
seven now claimed for the Clearfield
coal field by the geological coal editor
of the Osceola Reveille, who asserts
that the so-called conglomerate is
nothing more or less than two hun
dred feet of coarse sandstone, and has
only to be penetrated through to find
the millions of tons of pure mineral
coal that is to supply the wants of
future generations long after the
Cumberland region is wrought out
and dried up, the opinions of such
glass-front geologists as Miller, Lyell
and Murchison to the contrary not
withstanding. Ho has as much chance
to find chalk as be has to find coal;
and without the Clearfield coal basin
be an exception to the general rule ol
the formation of the earth’s crust
neither of them will be found, and
your nine millions of acres of coal
will have to be found in the adjoining
counties of the State.
