308 
only 3,200 gallons, or in a ratio of 8| to 1^. The manager of the Maryborough gas- 
works gave me the following returns from twenty months’ actual work with the coal 
from this seam : — 
Gtas 
Coke ... 
Tar 
Ammoniaeal liquor 
10,200 cub. ft. per ton of Coal. Candle power, 14'73. 
1 ,460 lb. „ „ (65 per cent.) 
lO'o gallons „ „ 
“ The Queensland Coal Company’s shaft gave the following sections: — 
Coal ... 
Black shale ... 
Coal 
Eireelay 
Sandstone with ironstone hands 
Light clay 
Coal ... 
Black shale ... 
Hand band of fireclay 
Shale and ironstone... 
Shale with ferns 
Sandy clay ... 
Coal ... 
Fireclay and bands of ironstone 
Dark coaly shale and ironstone 
Black shale ... 
Coal ... 
Fireclay 
Striped sandstone and ironstone 
Striped sandy shale and ironstone 
Shale 
Coal 
Shale 
Coal ... 
Shale 
Coal 
Fireclay 
Coaly shale 
Shales... 
Coal ... 
Fireclay 
Fireclay with nodules 
Ft. in. 
0 4 
0 6 
0 3 
2 8 
7 8 
1 11 
0 9 
0 6 
4 7 
4 2 
1 8 
3 0 
0 3 
6 10 
5 1 
2 9 
0 3 
6 11 
4 6 
7 2 
3 4 
0 6 
1 1 
1 1 
1 6 
0 11 
3 6 
1 0 
11 7 
0 9 
1 3 
2 6 
Total 
... 234 8 
“ The seam being worked varies very much in thickness. In the north-westerly 
^®vel, at four hundred and thirty feet from the pit bottom, it measures — 
Shale... 
Coal ... 
Shale ... 
Coal , . . 
Shale ... 
Coal ... 
Fireclay 
n. In. 
0 0 
0 4 
0 4 
1 6 
0 7 
1 7 
0 0 
