238 Kansas Academy of Science. 



100 feet above it. And recently a slide on the strait front has ex- 

 posed a six-foot vein about a half-mile from the 40-inch outcrop. 



Upon finding coal in the region, Mr. O'Brien organized the 

 Clallam Bay Coal Company, leased the land in the coal region at a 

 very reasonable per centage, and at once began development work 

 on the forty-inch vein. At the present time the main tunnel has 

 been driven 600 feet, the mouth of the tunnel being on the beach, 

 so that coal is loaded right onto ships from it. The monthly out- 

 put now is about 200 tons; and work on the newly discovered six- 

 foot vein is to be commenced at once. 



The coal is a clean, hard, glossy black lignite. It breaks with a 

 conchoidal fracture and shows extremely sharp edges. It contains 

 small quantities of pyrite, often in veinlets; but not in quantity 

 sufficient to damage the coal. When burned the coal leaves no 

 clinkers. An analysis of a surface specimen of this coal by Prof. 

 N. W. Lord, of the department of metallurgy and minerology, Ohio 

 State University, Columbus, Ohio, gives the following: 



Moisture 6 . 55 per cent. 



Volatile combustible matter 34 . 25 " 



Fixed carbon 47.80 



Ash 11.40 



Total 100.00 per cent. 



Sulfur, 6.37 per cent. 



Mr. M. R. Campbell, of the United States Geological Survey, 

 who is a member of the committee in charge of the government 

 coal-testing plant at St. Louis, has this to say regarding the Clallam 

 B.ay coal:^* 



"I know of no use for which it may successfully compete with 

 other coals that reach the Pacific coast; but, judging from the re- 

 sults which have been obtained at the government coal-testing lab- 

 oratory at St. Louis daring the past summer, I feel sure that the 

 black lignite represented by this sample, although only three feet 

 in thickness, may have considerable value. Tests made on similar 

 lignite from the Rocky Mountain states show that it will produce 

 gas of a higher power than that obtained from any bituminous 

 coals of the Mississippi valley, and if gas-producers and gas-engines 

 replace the ordinary type of engines, which seems altogether prob- 

 able, it will give to this lignite a value almost, if not quite, equal 

 to the best bituminous coal." 



Recently twenty tons of this coal was sent to the government 

 officials at Bremerton navy-yard near Seattle to have a test made 

 of its qualities. This test, which has just been completed, shows 

 a coal superior to any other coal produced on the Pacific coast. 



78. See Arnold, loc. cit.. p. 420. 



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