TESTS KENTUCKY AND MARYLAND. 
131 
COKING TEST. 
Test 85, Kentucky No. 7. 
Size as shipped, "standard lump." Size as used, finely crushed. Raw. Duration of test, 40 hours. 
oal charged pounds. . 12,000 
oke produced do ... . 6, 865 
reeze produced do 342 
oke produced .' per cent. . 57. 21 
reeze produced do 2. P5 
Total percentage yield U0. 06 
Remarks. —Light gray silvery. Good weight coke. Contains large amount of hard clinker on top 
nd through cracks. Ash and sulphur both high, might be improved by washing. 
ANALYSES. 
Test 85. 
' 
Coal. 
Coke. 
8.82 
35.03 
46. 78 
9.37 
3.56 
0.23 
2. 16 
82 97 
sh 
14.64 
ulphur 
3. 16 
MARYLAND NO. 1. 
Bituminous coal from Washington No. 3 mine, Piedmont and Georges Creek Coal Com- 
any, 2 miles north of Westernport, Garret! County, Md., on the Cumberland and Penn- 
dvania Railroad. 
This sample of coal was loaded under the supervision of Inspector J. W. Groves, and 
msisted of run of mine. It was used in making washing test No. 130, coking tests Nos. 
), 54, and 58, steaming test No. 222, and steaming tests on washed coal Nos. 231 and 232. 
Two mine samples were taken for chemical analysis, as follows: No. 2018 was cut from 
e face of room 2, sixth right entry, 1,600 feet west of the drift mouth; No. 2019 was 
M, from the face of room 3, off the eighth left entry, 1,900 feet southwest of the drift 
outh. 
CHEMICAL ANALYSES. 
Mine samples. 
Car sam- 
ple. 
laboratory number 
2018 
1.80 
2.47 
14. 03 
73. 95 
9.55 
1.23 
2019 
2. 50 
3.45 
13.73 
71.97 
10. 85 
1.60 
2274 
1.40 
2.33 
| Volatile matter 
16. 11 
1 Fixed carbon 
68.43 
ill (Ash 
13.13 
i- Sulphur 
1.49 
3.99 
•'Carbon... 
75.21 
1.29 
K Oxygen 
4.89 
( lorific value determined : 
Calories . 
7,696 
13,853 
7,364 
British thermal units 
13,255 
