206 OPERATIONS OF FUEL-TESTING PLANT IN 1905. 
COKING TEST. 
Test SO, West Virginia No. 14. 
Size as shipped, run of mine. Size as used, finely crushed. Raw. Duration of test, 71 hours. 
Coal charged pounds. . 11,000 
Coke produced do 7 > 154 
Breeze produced do 364 
Coke produced P ,<r (>(>nt - ■ 65 - ° 4 
Breeze produced : 61° 3.31 
Total percentage yield 68.35 
Remarks.— Good hard coke. Foundry coke. Light-gray and silvery color. High yield due to 
deposited carbon. 
\\ VLYSES. 
Moisture 
Volatile matter 
Fixed carbon. . 
Ash 
Sulphur 
Test 20. 
Coal. 
Coke. 
1.04 
0.38 
29.28 
.96 
66. 80 
'.:.->. 19 
2.88 
3.47 
1.04 
.94 
WEST VIRGINIA NO. 15. 
Bituminous coal from Ocean mine, Fairmont Coal Company, '■*> miles cast of Clarksburg, 
Harrison County, W. Va., on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 
This sample consisted of run-of-mine coal and was loaded under the supervision of Inspec- 
tor J. S. Burrows. It was used in making coking tests Nos. 36 and 43 and steaming tests 
Xos. 2! 1, 21."), and 216. 
Two mine samples were taken for chemical analysis. No. 2039 was cut from the, second 
butt entrv oil' the third face entry, 2,750 feet northwest of the drift mouth. No. 2010 was 
cut in room 7 off the third but! entry, 2,025 feet northeast of the drift mouth. 
CHEMICAL ANALYSES. 
Mine samples. 
Car 
sample. 
La 
w 
boratory number 
2039 
1.50 
2.80 
38.51 
53.14 
5.55 
2.40 
2040 
1.90 
3.27 
37. T2 
53. 27 
5.74 
2.41 
2195 
0.90 
2.01 
Volatile matter 
37. 31 
Fixed carbon 
52.13 

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J Ash 
8.55 
m 
MSulphur 
2. 54 
QJ 
Hydrogen 
5.08 
- 
Carbon 
75. 83 
~ 
Nitrogen 
1.43 
hJ 
Oxygen 
0. 57 
Ca 
lorific value determined: 
7,836 
14,105 
7,673 
13,811 
British thermal units. . . 
