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OPERATIONS OF FUEL-TESTING PLANT IN 1905. 
WASHING TEST. 
Test 102, Illinois No. 9 A. 
Size as shipped, run of mine. Size as used, crushed to 2 inches. Jig used, Stewart modified. 
Raw coal pounds.. 18,000 
Washed coal do. ... 13, 920 
Refuse do. . . . 4,080 
ANALYSES. 
Test 102 
Moisture 
Volatile matter 
Fixed carbon. . 
Ash 
Sulphur 
ILLINOIS NO. 10. 
Bituminous coal from West Frankfort mine, Dering Coal Company, West Frankfort, 
Franklin County, 111., on the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad. 
This sample consisted of one car of slack coal. It was shipped without inspection, as the 
corps of inspectors was not organized at the time the coal was asked for. The following 
tests were made on this sample: Washing test No. 103, steaming tests Nos. 107, 108, 109, 
and 110, steaming test on washed coal No. 114, and producer-gas test No. 31. 
No mine samples have as yet been obtained from this mine. 
CHEMICAL ANALYSES. 
Laboratory number 
Air-drying loss 
Moisture 
Volatile matter 
Fixed carbon 
lAsh 
lSulphur 
Hydrogen 
Carbon 
Nitrogen 
Oxygen 
Calorific value determined: 
Calories 
British thermal units. 
Car 
sample. 
1648 
6. 90 
9.50 
21.98 
47.08 
11.44 
1.45 
5.31 
63. 83 
1.36 
16.61 
6,392 
11,506 ; 
