SUPPLEMENTAL REPOET — HOCKING VALLEY 827 



of Ploodwood Creek, where the coal is pretty low— yet amply above 

 drainage— to the region of the Lick Run mines. The seam is every 

 where of working thickness, and, while the quality of the coal is gener- 

 ally excellent, it is in some places very superior. 



On Floodwood there are places where the sandrock "cuts away" or re- 

 places a portion of the coal, but the mines of Messrs. Sheffield generally 

 disclose the seam in fair development and of good quality of coal. On 

 Meeker Run the seam ranges from a thickness of six feet to nearly nine 

 feet. The following are two sections taken on the land of J. L. Gill, Esq : 



1. 



FT. IX. 



1. Yellow shale 12 7 



2. Top coal 5 



3. Shale 4 



4. Coal 2 S 



5. Shale .. 3 



6. Coal 2 2 



7. Shale 1| 



8. Coal 1 7 



2. 



FT. IN. 



1. Yellow shale 10? 



2. Coal 2 8 



3. Shale 3 



4. Coal 2 IJ 



5. Shale 2 



6. Coal 1 10 



Three samples of coal were taken from the lower three benches re- 

 spectively, at the locality where the first of the above sections was 

 measured, and analyzed by Prof. Wormley, with the following result: 



1. Lower bench. 



2. Sejond bench. 



3. Third bench. 



1. 



Water 



Ash 



Volatile combustible matter 

 Fixed carbon 



Totals 



Salphnr 



Sulphur left in coke 



Per cent, of sulphur to cote 



Gas 



Ash 



Coke 



