218 
OPERATIONS OF FUEL-TESTING PLANT IN 1905. 
WEST VIRGINIA NO. 20. 
Bituminous coal from Keystone mine, Stevens Coal Company, Acme, Kanawha County, 
\V. Ya., on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. 
This sample consisted of run-of-mine coal and was loaded under the supervision of Inspec- 
tor J. W. Groves. It was used in making washing test No. 135, coking tests Nos. 80, 84, 87, 
and 92, steaming tests Nos. 272 and 273, steaming tests on washed coal Nos. 264 and 200, 
and producer-gas test No. 82. 
Two mine samples were taken in this mine for chemical analysis, as follows: No. 2375 
from a point in the left entry 4,000 feet east of the drift mouth; No. 237(5 from room 10 off 
the fifth right entry, 3,500 feet east of the drift mouth. 
CHEMICAL ANALYSES. 
Mine samples . 
Car samples. 
Ls 
2375 
1. 40 
'_'. (if. 
33.30 
59. GO 
4.44 
1.14 
237G 
l.iiO 
2.84 
33.18 
58. 75 
5. 23 
1.35 
2556 
2.10 
2.82 
32.20 
56.95 
8.03 
1.38 
5. 10 
70. 74 
1 . 34 
7. 35 
7,648 
13,700 
2026 
1.90 
2.89 
o 
32. 53 

511.95 
>i 
o 
f Ash 
7. 03 
C* 
1.50 
%J 
H 
~ 
Oxygen 
Ca 
lorific value determined: 
Calories 
7,982 
I 1,368 
STEAMING TESTS. 
Test i7i, West Virginia No. 20. 
Size as shipped, run of mine. Size as used, over 
1 inch, 31.1 percent; £ inch to 1 inch, 22.3 percent; 
J inch to \ inch. 19.4 percent; under \ inch, 27.2 per 
cent. Duration of test, 9.92 hours. Kind of 
grate, rocking. 
Test 273, West Virginia No. 20. 
Size as shipped, run of mine. Size as used, over 
1 inch, 27.7 per cent; \ inch to 1 inch, 20 per cent; 
\ inch to ^inch, 18.5 percent ; under ', inch, 33.8 per 
cent. Duration of test, 9.87 hours. Kind of 
grate, rocking. 
Test 264, West Virginia No. 20, washed. 
Size as shipped, run of mine. Size as used, over 
1 inch, 23 per cent ; \ inch to 1 inch, 23.7 per cent; 
J inch to \ inch. 25.4 percent; under \ inch, 27.9 per 
cent. Duration of test, 9.97 hours. Kind of 
grate, rocking. 
Test 2(H>, AVest Virginia No. 20, washed. 
Size as shipped, run of mine. Size as used, over 
1 inch, 30.9 percent , \ inch to 1 inch, 24.4 percent; 
i inch to \ inch, 21.2 percent; under \ inch, 23.5 per 
cent. Duration of test, 10 hours. Kind of 
grate, plain. 
