41 S 



inch seam, is aboul one hundred feel below ihis one This was near slip 

 Point. Other scams have been discovered farther down the searcliff to the 



eastward of these. 



A tunnel has been driven more than 000 feet along the line of the 40- 

 inch seam near Slip Point. The mouth of this tunnel is on the beach, so 

 that coal can be loaded right onto ships from it. 



The coal of this mine breaks with a conchoidal fracture and shows extreme 

 sharp edges. It is clean, hard, glossy black lignite, with small quantities 

 of pyrite. This pyrite is often included in the coal in veinlets, but not in 

 quantity to damage the coal. The coal leaves no clinkers. Until recently 

 the output of this mine was said to be 200 tons per month. An analysis 

 of a specimen of this coal gave the following: 3 



Moisture. 5 . 55 per cent. 



Volatile combustible matter 34.25 per cent. 



Fixed carbon 47 . 80 per cent. 



Ash 1 1 . 40 per cent. 



Total 100 . 00 per cent. 



Thorough prospecting will likely disclose more and large coal seams. 



'Analysis by Prof. N. W. Lord of the Department of Metallurgy and Mineralogy, 

 Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. 



