Some places on the outcrop rise much higher. The base of the mountain is about five hundred feet above sea-level. No shipping has been done from here. A gang of miners was at work opening the beds, with the special view of testing their coking qualities in order to be used, if practicable, by the Moss Bay Company for smelting the steel ores of the Cascade Mountains. The only seam well opened when I was there (Nov. 17th and 18th) was No. 3, which is a large bed and shows an excellent quality of bituminous coal. The bed shows the side and end (or "tooth") structure. The coal is very black and moderately lustrous, and breaks readily into small rectangles of less than an inch. Its coking qualities have not been tested. Nos. 4 and 5 are said to be softer and more powdery, and may possibly be better for coke than No. 3. They have an available thickness of about ten feet each. The details of No. 3 are as follows: Roof, Black Shale. FT. INS. Coal 0 9 Bone 1 6 Coal 0 7 Hard Slate 2 0 Coal 0 8 Bone 0 2 Coal 0 5 Bone 0 1 Coal 1 2 Soft Parting 0 1/2 Coal 1 0 Bone and Coal 0 7 Coal 1 0 Bone 0 1 Coal 1 3 Bone 0 1/4 Coal 0 5 Bone 0 1/2 Coal 0 7 Bone and Coal 1 8 Coal 0 4-1/2 Bone 0 1 Coal 0 7 Sandstone bottom. ----------- Total 15 ft. 3/4 ins. There is a natural exposure of No. 2, the "Big Seam," which I saw on the mountain-side above the miners' camp, and took the following details: