140 
OPERATIONS OF FUEL-TESTING PLANT IN 1905. 
OHIO NO. 1. 
Bituminous coal from mine No. 10, Superior Coal Company, 9 miles southeast of Wellstonj 
Jackson County, Ohio, on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 
This sample consisted of run-of-mine coal from No. 4 bed and was loaded under the super- 
vision of Inspector J. W. Groves. Both No. 4 and No. 5 seams are worked in this mine.4 
The following tests were made on this coal: Washing test No. 11 ( .), coking test No. 24, 
steaming test No. 191, and steaming test on washed coal No. 192. 
Two mine samples were taken in this mine for chemical analysis. No. 1896 was cut from 
a point 1,400 feet southwest of the entrance to the mine, in room 16, off the fourth right entry! 
No. 1897 was taken at a point 1 ,400 feet northeast of the entrance to the mine, al the lace of 
room 17, off the fourth right entry. 
CHEMICAL ANALYSES. 
Mine samples. 
Car 
sample. 
Ai 
1896 
4. 90 
8. 45 
41.27 
43. 55 
(•>. 73 
3. to 
1897 
3. 71) 
7.50 
39. 25 
42. 74 
10.51 
5. 44 
2071 
r-drving loss 
4.90 
i 
.1 
[Moisture 
7.71 
:<S. 32 
42. 02 
o 
Ph 
J A s h 
1 1 . 95 
[Sulphur 
4. (il 
£ 
1 1 yd rogen 
5. 41 
a 
R 
Carbon 
62. 49 
— 
1. 11 
U> 
< >xygen 
14.43 
Ca 
lorific value determined: 
Calories 
6,805 
12,249 
(i,:i97 
11, 515 
STEAMING TESTS. 
Test 191, Ohio NO. 1. 
Tesl 192, Ohio No. 1, washed. 
Size as shipped, run of mine. Size as used, over Size as shipped, run of mine. Size as used, over 
1 inch, 19.3 percent; \ inch to 1 inch, 22.4 percent; 1 inch, 37.9 percent; '. inch to 1 inch, 27.8 percent; 
Jinch to \ inch, 19.1 percent: under J inch, 38.9 per } inch to J inch, ls.1 percent; under | inch, 16.2 per 
cent. Duration of test, 9.92 hours. Kindofgrate, cent. Duration cf test, 10.07 hours. Kind of 
rocking. | grate, rocking. 
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. 
Heating value of coal B. T. U. per pound dry coal 
Force of draft: 
Under stack damper inch water. 
Above fire do . . . 
Furnace temperature ° F . 
Dry coal used per square foot of grate surface per hour pounds. 
Equivalent water evaporated per square foot of water-heating surface per hour 
pounds 
Percentage of rated horsepower of boiler developed 
Water apparently evaporated per pound of coal as fired pounds. 
a For tests of No. 5 coal see Ohio No. 2 (p. 142;. 
Test 191. 
11,704 
Test 
13,041 
0.52 
o.a 
.15 
.18 
2,194 
2,384 
20. 66 
21.57 
2.98 
3. 21 
83. 6 
90. 1 
G. 36 
0.48 
