108 OPERATIONS OF FUEL-TESTING PLANT IN 1905. 
WASHING TEST. 
T«s< 1 14, Indiana No. 7 A. 
Size as shipped, lump, egg, and nut. Size as used, crushed to 2 inches. Jig used, Stewarl modified] 
Raw coal pounds. . 14,000 
Wash (1 coal do 12,240 
Refuse do 1,760 
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Test 114. 
Moist lire 
Volat ili' mat ter 
Fixed carbon. . 
Ash 
Sulphur 
COKING TEST. 
Test I •">. Indiana No. 7 A., washed. 
Size as shipped, lump, egg, and nut. Size as used, finely crushed. Duration obtest, 112 hours. 
Coal charged pounds. . 12,240 
Coke produced do 6,99 
Breeze produced do 040 
Coke produced. . 
Breeze produced . 
.percent.. ~>7. 13 
do 5.23 
Total percentage yield 0! 
R< marks. Light-gray and silvery color. Somewhat brittle. High ash and sulphur. 
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k Test 13. 
Coal. 
C( 
ike. 
Moisture 
10. 33 
38. 35 
42.93 
8.39 
3.12 
1.13 
2. 35 
83. 23 
Ash 
13.29 
Sulphur 
2. f»9 
INDIANA NO. 8. 
Bituminous coal from Dec]) Vein mine, Deep Vein Coal Company, 2 miles west <>f Terre 
Haute, Vigo County, Ind., on the Vandalia Railroad. 
The sample for testing was shipped as lump coal, which at this mine is run over a 1 ',-inch 
bar screen. The coal was inspected by Inspector J. W. Groves, and was used in making 
washing test No. 118 steaming tests Nos. 182, 183, and 185, steaming test on washed col 
No. 184, and producer-gas test No. 57. 
Two mine samples were taken. No. 1828 came from room 8 off the fourth south entry on 
the east side. TOO feel southeast of the shaft, and No. 1829 came from the sixth west entry on 
the north side, 800 feet northwest of the shaft. 
