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Sulphur 1.73 



Sulpliur left in coke 0.99 



Sulphur forming of the coke 1.68 



Gas per pound, in cubic feet 3.3d 



Ash White. 



Coke Pulverulent. 



This bed runs out in the hills to the north and west of Frazeysburg. 

 Towards the north-east it rapidly thins out, and along Irish Ridge can be 

 traced only as a black streak under the limestone. 



Coal No. 3 is nowhere of any value, and is seldom more than ten inches 

 thick. 



Coal No. 2 shows itself near Mr.||Villiam Morgan's house, on the West 

 Carlisle road. An opening was made here and pushed for some distance 

 into the hill without finding good coal. The bed was found thirty inches 

 thick. At another opening by the road-side the thickness is only eigh- 

 teen inches. 



Coal No. 1 has been worked at various points along Waukatomaka 

 Creek, in the north-western portion of the township. It is thickest on 

 Mr. Joseph Willey's property, in sec^tion 8, where the following section 

 was obtained : 



FT. IN. 



1. Sandstone 15 



2. Clay 4 



3. Coal, bituminous 9 



4. Clay parting 4 



5. Cannel coal 8 



6. Clay parting 4' 



7. Bituminous coal 2 4 



8. Fire-clay 5 



The coal from Nos. 3 and 7 is said to be of most excellent quality. Mr. 

 L. W. Doane, who superintended the oil-boring near by, asserts that it is 

 entirely free from sulphur, and is the best blacksmiths' coal he ever saw. 

 The cannel is very poor and little better than bituminous shale. It 

 abounds in vegetable remains, some of which are exceedingly fine. Mr. 

 Doane has obtained slabs of Lepidodendron and Sigillaria two to three feet 

 square. The dip eastward here is quite sharp, being five feet in one 

 hundred yards. At none of the other openings in this neighborhood 

 does the coal exceed two and one-half feet in thickness, and sometimes 

 is less than two feet. Unfortunately all the banks have been deserted for 

 one or two years, so that it was found impossible to obtain specimens for 

 analysis. 



The ore beds of importance here are two. The lower rests almost di- 

 rectly upon the Conglomerate, while the upper is always more or less in- 



