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are  scattered  throughout  the  mass,  and  along  joint  cracks  the  weath- 
ering of  the  pyrite  has  coated  the  coal  with  a  thin  film  of  rusty 
oxide. 
Mr.  M.  R.  Campbell,  of  the  United  States  Geological  Survey,  who 
is  a  member  of  the  committee  in  charge  of  the  Government  coal- 
testing  plant  at  St.  Louis,  has  this  to  say  regarding  the  Clallam 
Bay  coal : 
I  know  of  no  use  for  which  it  may  successfully  compete  with  other  coals 
that  reach  the  Pacific  coast;  hut.  judging  from  the  results  which  have  heeii! 
obtained  at  the  Government  coal-testing  laboratory  at  St.  Louis  during  the  pasti 
summer,  I  feel  sure  that  the  black  lignite  represented  by  this  sample,  although 
only  .">  feet  in  thiekness,  may  have  considerable  value.  Tests  made  on  similar 
lignite  from  the  Rocky  Mountain  States  show  that  it  will  produce  a  gas  of 
higher  power  than  that  obtained  from  any  of  the  bituminous  coals  of  the  Mis- 
sissippi Valley,  and  if  gas  producers  and  gas  engines  replace  the  ordinary 
type  of  steam  engines,  which  seems  altogether  probable,  it  will  give  to  this> 
lignite  a  value  almost,  if  not  quite,  equal  to  the  best  bituminous  coal. 
A  sample,  slightly  better  than  the  average,  from  the  36-inch  seaim 
at  the  Clallam  Bay  prospect  was  sent  to  Prof.  N.  W.  Lord,  of  the 
department  of  metallurgy  and  mineralogy,  Ohio  State  University,, 
Columbus,  Ohio,  who  has  kindly  furnished  the  following  results  off 
his  analysis: 
Analysis  of  coal  from  Clallam  Bay  field,  Washington. 
Ter  cent. 
Moisture 6.55 
Volatile  combustible  matter "     34.25 
Fixed  carbon 47.  80 
Ash    11.40 
Total 100.  00 
Sulphur 6.  37 
Other   localities. — At   least   two   other   localities   within    Clallam' 
County  have  yielded  indications  of  coal.     One  of  these  is  an  indefaj 
nite  locality  "  at  the  headwaters  of  the  Quillayute  River,"  previously 
mentioned,  and  the  other  is  on  the  ocean  beach  below  Portage  Head, 
in  the  western  part  of  the  county.     At  this  latter  place  small  seamsj, 
stringers,  and  fragments  of  a  hard,  black  lignite  were  seen  in   thlj 
gray  sandstone,  and  the  writer  was  told  by  Mr.  W.  W.  Loveless,  whoj-i 
lives  in  that  vicinity,  that  during  certain  times  of  the  year,  when 
the  rocks  are  bare  of  sand,  a  seam  of  coal  several  inches  wide  is 
exposed  at  Ioav  tide.    This  coal  was  used  by  Mr.  Loveless  in  his  stove 
and  found  to  burn  very  well  and  give  very  little  ash. 
