HOCKING VALLEY. 673 



1. 2. 



Specific gravity 1.277 1.350 



Water 3.80 3.80 



Ash 4.60 6.30 



Volatile combustible matter 38.80 37.00 



Fixedcarbon 52 80 52.90 



Total 100.00 100.00 



Sulphur 3.59 4.89 



Cubic feet of gas per pound 3.03 3.08 



COAL NUMBER SEVEN, OE THE STALLSMITH SEAM. 



Prom twenty-five to forty-five feet above the Norris coal is a seam 

 which reaches a maximum thickness of between four and five feet, and 

 is called, sometimes, the Four-foot coal, sometimes the Stallsmith seam. 

 It is a bright, hard coal, with a resinous lustre, highly melting, and 

 much prized for domestic uses. 



On the West Fork, near the town site of Buckingham, where it has 

 been mined by Mr. Benjamin Saunders, the following section is obtained: 



FT. IN. 



Argillaceous shale 4 



Coal Si 



Thin baud pyrites. 



Coal 4 



The lower four feet is in one bench, and contains little visible sulphur, 

 presenting the appearance of a strong, coking coal, of excellent quality 

 for mining purposes. Mr. Stallsmith's mine, south of Mr. Saunders's, 

 presents similar characteristics. 



Specimens from these two mines have been analyzed by Professor 

 Wormley, with the following results : 



1. 2. 



Specific gravity 1.294 1.254 



Moisture (dried) 3.80 



Ash •. 2.80 4.14 • 



Volatile combustible matter 41.70 40.21 



Fixedcarbon 55.50 51.85 



Total 100.00 100.00 



Sulphur 2.56 2.62 



These coals are not as persistent as the Great Vein, and there are much 

 more rapid changes, both in the thickness and character of the coal. 

 Above them, there are, in places, two and three thin seams, but at no 

 point observed are they of any economic value, except at the village of 

 Bristol, west of Moxahala, where the hills rise about 250 feet above the 



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