Excerpt from West Virginia Geological Survey: County Reports and Maps
To His Excellency, Hon. William E. Glasscock, Governor of West Virginia, and President of the State Geological and Economic Survey Commission:
Sir: - I have the honor to transmit herewith the Detailed Report of Prof. G. P. Grimsley on the counties of Pleasants. Wood and Ritchie, together with the topographic, geologic, and soil maps covering the entire area of the three counties in single sheets. These maps should prove of great value to every interest, and especially to that of agriculture. Aside from the vast oil and gas fields that have been developed in this area, the description of which is so well set forth by Prof. Grimsley in the detailed Report submitted, the main source of natural wealth of the counties in question must always be found in its soils. True, there are splendid clays and shales for the manufacture of all manner of building and paving brick, and there is much good building stone accessible at the surface over wide areas of these three counties, but the Coal Measures, so rich in fuel farther eastward in Harrison and adjoining counties, contain practically no coal beds of commercial value at the present time. The rocky strata of the entire Coal Measures column occurring in the northern region of the State underlie this entire area, but the great Pittsburg bed so important in the counties of Harrison, Marion, Monongalia, Marshall, Wetzel and the northern panhandle, as well as in eastern Doddridge, western Barbour, and over considerable areas in Taylor, Upshur, Lewis, Gilmer, Braxton, and a few other counties southwest from the latter, appears to be absent as a commercial deposit from Pleasants, Wood and Ritchie, while the coals of the Allegheny series, the Freeport, and Kittanning beds, so important in eastern Monongalia, Preston, Barbour, Randolph, Tucker, Grant and Mineral counties, along the mountain regions of the State, are found in only thin and meagre development, so far as the drill of the oil and gas developments can be relied on, over the area herein described.
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