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There are many other mines — the "Grove," the " Brookfield," the 

 "Mountain," the "Stoffer," the " McCue," etc.— of which I have no de- 

 tailed report. 



Analysks of Massillon Coal. 

 Specific gravity 1.253 1.269 1.247 1.337 1.250 1,328 



Water , . . 7.;" 5.60 6.95 3.70 4.10 2.40 



Ash 1.00 3.90 3.18 1.60 1.60 13.50 



Volatile combustible 31.00 30.30 33.38 30.50 32.90 3.5.k0 



Fixed carbon 61.00 60.20 57.49 64.20 61.40 48.90 



Total ...100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 



Sulphur 0.49 0.19 0.88 0.68 1.07 0.975 



Gas, cubic feet, per pound .- 3.42 3.50 3.64 3.15 



No. 1. Lawrence Coal Company, lower bench. 



"2. " " " upper bench. 



'•' 3. Blue Chippewa. 



" 4. Fulton Mining Company. 



" .5. Burton's coal, hiwer bench. 



" 6. " " upi)or bench (tliin and slaty). 



Som<3 doubt has been expressed among the residents of Massillon 

 whether the coal that crops out at Bridgeport is identical with that 

 worked elsewhere in this vicinity. It is thinner, and lies somewhat 

 higher than that in most of the neighboring mines. Still its physical 

 character and composition, as well as its relation to the associated rocks, 

 seem to prove that it is really Coal No. 1. A similar phase of the Mas- 

 sillon coul is seen in the mine of the German Coal Company, just north 

 of the stme quarry of Warthorst & Co., at Massillon Here, also, the 

 coal is thin, verj'- much laminated, and even somewhat slatj^ This 

 peculiarity of structure I have been inclined to attribute to the fact that 

 the coal seam in these two mines is overlain by a great mass of sand- 

 stone, which, when all the materials were in a soft and plastic condition, 

 must have pressed down upon the coal in such a way as to reduce its 

 thickness and give it its laminated structure. Borings made in the 

 vicinity of Bridgeport and Massillon have failed to find any lower seam, 

 and it is scarcely possible that there should be another below that mined. 

 The sectioQ at Bridgeport is precisely ivhat it should he if the Briclgeport coal 

 were Cofil No. 1. The elements which compose it are as follows: 



pr. 



1. Sandrock 65 



2. Ooal - - 1 



3. Fire-clay 2 



4. Gray shale ." 46 



5. Coal No. 1.--- 2i 



6. Fire-clay 3 



7. Sandy .shale 5 



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