SUPPLEMENTAL EEPORT — HOCKING VALLEY. 



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If we exclude the top coal, which contains more ash than the rest, we 

 have a coal of the very highest merit. No coal from the Hocking Valley 

 has perhaps ever surpassed in popularity that from Mr. Brooks's west- 

 side mine. It is dry-burning, and I should not hesitate to predict for it 

 success in blas\-furnace use, although not as dry-burning as the coal from 

 Straitsville, Shawnee, and Sunday Creek. 



In the Lick Run region the coal presents the same general structure 

 of seam as further south. Here measurements showed the seam to be 

 six feet two inches thick, with the usual partings. In this region the over- 

 lying sandrock has sometimes been found to be troublesome. The coal 

 has been largely mined, and is valuable fuel. I find in my note-book no 

 record of any analysis of the coal from this neighborhood. 



From the shaft of the Columbus and Hocking Coal Company, at the 



mouth of Hamley's Run, samples of the coal of the Nelsonville seam 



were sent by Mr. Ogden, the Superintendent, to Prof. Wormley, and 



analyzed, as follows : 



No. 1, bottom bench. 

 ' No. 2, middle bench. 

 No. 3, top bench. 



Water - 



Ash 



Volatile combustible matter . 

 Fixed carbon 



Totals 



Sulphur 



Sulphur of coal in coke 



Sulphur in per cent, of coke 

 Ash 



No. 1. 



4.80 



6.30 



30.40 



58.50 



100.00 



1.15 

 0.46 

 0.71 

 Keddish. 



No. 2. 



4.70 



4.50 



30.30 



60.50 



100.00 



0.71 



0.24 



0.37 



Yellow. 



No. 3. 



4.80 



8.90 



28.00 



58.30 



100.00 



4.20 



2.47 



3.67 



Reddish. 



