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itself is handsome, and yields a very compact and beautiful coke. There 

 is evidently an open burning layer, as some of the coke retains the form 

 and appearance of the coal. 



Coal No. 10 is only fifteen inches thick on Captain Crawford's property, 

 and has not been observed elsewhere. No. 9 was not seen in Pease town- 

 ship. Coal No. 86 is one foot six inches at Captain Crawford's, and lies 

 fifty-six feet above No. 8. On Glen's Run, about two miles from its 

 mouth and opposite the mill, this coal is only six inches thick, and lies 

 fifty feet above No. 8. Back of Kirkwood No. 8c is worked, and shows a 

 thickness of three feet. 



Coal No. 8 is mined for shipment by Mr. W. J. Rainey in section 13. 

 The coal here shows : 



IT. IN. 



1. Coal 2 



2. Clay 2 to 6 



3. Coal 6-4 4 



The roof-coal has not been worked, but where it has fallen down and so 

 been exi30sed it appears to be of good quality. The clay varies consider- 

 ably at the expenseof the coal below, but averages about ten inches, and 

 at one spot contains a two-inch seam of coal. The coal of the lower bed 

 varies in quality; six inches at the bottom is usually worthless, and the 

 lower bench is apt to contain an undue percentage of pyrites. Mr. 

 Rainey mines 30,000 tons per annum, the quantity being limited only 

 by the opportunity to ship. He states that the coal is in demand for gas 

 manufacture, and brings within thirty cents per ton of as much as the 

 Connellsville coal. 



On Glen's Run there are several deserted openings in which the main 

 coal averages five feet ten inches. At Mr. Sedgwick's the bed shows: 



FT. IN. 



1. Shale 7 



2. Coal 1 3 



3. Clay '. 1 2 



4. Coal 5 4 



The roof- coal is poor and slaty. In No. 4 the upper bench is a good, 

 clean coal, with little pyrites; the middle bench is poor and usually cast 

 away; and the lower bench is slaty, though it burns well, and evidently 

 contains much volatile combustible matter. For six inches at the bot- 

 tom it is worthless. 



At Mr. McConaghy's opening the section is the same, excepting that 

 the lower coal is five feet seven inches. At Mr. Koehnlein's works, near 

 Bridgeport, th^e coal sometimes becomes seven feet. On the National 



