THE BLOUNT MOUNTAIN COAL FIELD. 53 



Above the cap-rock of the Armstrong Seam the strata are 

 hard arenaceous shale and hard flaggy sand rocks, in- 

 creasing in hardness and thickness to the bed rock of the 

 Woodward Seam, which is a solid, compact, yellowish-gray 

 sand rock 2 to 3 feet thick. 



The whole thickness of intervening strata, between the 

 Armstrong and Woodward seams is forty to sixty feet. 



The Woodward Seam No. 22 of the General Section has 

 been cut in many places in sections 18 and 19 of T. 13, K. 2 

 E. An opening was made on this seam in the S. W. of the 

 N. E. of s d S. 19 with the following results : Seam pene- 

 trated about four feet, when work was stopped by wet 

 weather, and the caving in of the cut. The seam at the end 

 of the cut presented the following 



SECTION : 



Roof, soft slate. 



COAL, cubical 9 inches 



Slate parting, probably local 1 inch 



COAL, good 10 inches 



Clay parting 3 inches 



COAL, bright, hard 16J inches 



Under clay. 



Whole thickness of seam 39 inches ; the seam thickening 

 and the quality of the coal improving as the work pro- 

 gressed. A sample of the coal last taken out upon analysis 

 by Dr. J. M. Pickel yielded the following result : 



ANALYSIS OF COAL WOODWARD SEAM. 



Moisture 1 . 17 



Volatile combustible matter 34 . 90 



Fixed carbon 59 . 52 



Ash . 4.41 



100.00 



Coke 63.93 



Sulphur 2.20 



