682 GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 



5th. In the west half of fraction 18, Dover township, the Burge or 

 Bayley's Run well, in which the coal was struck at seventy-seven feet 

 from the surface, and eight feet two inches thick. 



At the Blonden'well a shaft has been sunk, and the accuracy of the 

 observations by boring, verified. The coal is disclosed here with all the 

 characteristics of the very best grade of this coal, and of the same thick- 

 ness as indicated by boring. 



The section of the coal at the shaft is as follows : 



FT. IN. 



Stale roof. 



Bone coal 1 



Splint eoal 2 



Cannel coal 1 



Coal 3 



Shale parting J 



Coal : 5 



The two feet of splint coal is ver}^ dry, being pure and free from sul- 

 phur. 



The cannel coal has a larger percentage of ash than the ordinary 

 Great Vein coal, but in other respects is of equal purity. Professor 

 Wormley's analyses of it gives the following results : 



Moisture , 3.90 



"Volatile combustible matter 32.70 



Fixed earbon ^ _ 47.60 



Ash (dull white) 15.80 



Total 100.00 



Sulphur 0.43 



The coal of the two lower benches is not excelled by any in the Great 

 Vein region. It is much more laminated in its structure, with more 

 mineral charcoal than in any other parts of the Great Vein region, much 

 of it in external appearance greatly resembling the best laminated 

 specimens of the Briar Hill coal. It will be more open burning than the 

 average of the Great Vein. 



The following condensed tables of analyses, made by Prof. Wormley 

 and reported by Prof. Andrews, in a pamphlet on " The Lower Sunday 

 Creek Valley," with analyses of the Ashland (Ky.) coal, and the Brazil 

 (Ind.) coal will give a comparative idea of the character of this eoal. 



The table. No. 1, gives the average of five analyses of coal from these 

 five wells. 



No. 2 gives the average of the analyses of thirty-two samples of this 

 seam in the other parts of Sunday creek. 



