ARTHUR WINSLOW, STATE GEOLOGIST. SHEET REPORT No. 2. A REPORT ON THE BEVIER SHEET INCLUDING PORTIONS OF Macon, Randolph and Chariton Counties. BY C. H. GORDON, Assistant Geologist. CONTRIBUTORS: J. E. TODD, Asst. Geologist. PUBLISHED BY THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. JEFFERSON CITY, OCTOBER, 1893. PREFACE. The first of this series of sheet reports, that on the Higginsville sheet, was issued in folio form. The inconvenience for reference of such large sheets of text has led to the substitution of the present form for this and succeeding reports of the series. The nature and scope of these sheets and accompanying reports have been described in the preface of the Higginsville sheet; all that we wish to emphasize here is that these reports are intended to be as nearly exhaustive and full to descriptive detail concerning the special area as is practicable, and to be correspondingly free from discussion of large questions involving broad inquiry. Hence numerous sections are described in detail, and important results of earlier workers are freely incorporated. The Bevier sheet proper is entirely the product of the work of the State Geological Survey. The geographic positions of the township and range lines were fixed from previous determinations of latitude and longitude at Glasgow and Columbia, and from a special determination made by the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey at Macon City, for which we are indebted to Dr. T. C. Mendenhall, the superintendent. The court house cupola at that place was located as follows by the final computation: Latitude of court-house cupola, Macon City. 66 66 ....... 39° 44′ 32" 27 92° 28′ 17′′.18 From these points of control errors in location of range and township lines were distributed, and upon this base the work proceeded as has already been described. In drawing the horizon line of the Bevier coal bed on the map, we have gone a little farther than was the case with the Higginsville sheet, and have extended it over areas where the actual presence of a workable coal bed has not been demon. strated. This was done largely as a more definite suggestion to future exploration. But, in making use of these results, the |