TESTS WEST VIRGINIA. 
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ANALYSKS. 
Tes1 60. 
Moisture 
Volatile matter 
Fixed carbon... 
Ash 
Sulphur 
WEST VIRGNIA NO. IS. 
Bituminous coal from Glen Alum mine, Glen Alum Fi si Company, Glen Alum, Mingo 
County, W. Va., on the Norfolk and Western Railway. 
This sample consisted of run-of-mine coal, and was loaded under the supervision of 
Inspector J. W. Groves. Tt was used in making coking tests Nos. 74 and 78, steaming 
tests Nos. 259, 261, and 262, and producer-gas test No. 80. 
Two mine samples were taken from this mine for chemical analysis, as follows: No. 
2348 from a crosscut 900 feet from the drift mouth, and No. 2349 from room 19, off the 
twentieth entry, 3,000 feet from the drift mouth. 
CHEMICAL ANALYSES. 
• 
Mine samples. 
Car 
sample. 
Laboratory number : 
2348 
1.50 
2.81 
31. 67 
59.02 
6.50 
0.66 
2349 
2.40 
4.04 
31.25 
59.55 
5.16 
.64 
2527 
1.60 
2.86 
p 
rs 
5 
33. 23 
Fixed carbon 
58.08 
i 
JAsh.. 
5.83 
^ 
[Sulphur 
.67 
1 
5. 01 

78. 38 
i 
1.43 
J 
8.68 
'a 
lorific value determined: 
7,754 
13,957 
7,836 
j 
14, 106 
STEAMING TESTS. 
Test 259, West Virginia No. 18. 
Size as shipped, run of mine. Size as used, over 
inch, 44.8 per cent; \ inch to 1 inch, 18.1 per cent; 
inch to \ inch, 12 per cent; under \ inch 25.1 
;r cent. Test run on an ordinary Frost fire-tube 
i,t>iler. Duration of test, 9.95 hours. Kind of 
rate, rocking. 
Test 261, West Virginia No. 18. 
Size as shipped, run of mine. Size as used, over 
nch, 22.4 per cent; \ inch to 1 inch, 20 percent; 
\ inch to \ inch, 17.1 per cent; under \ inch, 40.5 
per cent. Duration of test, 10 hours. Kind of 
grate, rocking. 
Test 262, West Virginia No. 18. 
Size as shipped, run of mine. Size as used, over 
1 inch, 47.7 per cent; \ inch to 1 inch, 17.2 per cent; 
J inch to \ inch, 11.9 per cent; under \ inch, 23.2 per 
cent. Duration of test, 10.07 hours. Kind of 
grate, rocking. 
