COAL 
RESOURCES 
OF 
KENOVA 
II. 
Shale  roof. 
Coal. 
QUADRANGLE. 
203 
Inches. 
i:i', 
(!) 
Bone 21 
Coal 5U 
Bone 2 
Coal 8 
Parting 60 
Coal,  rerjorted 36     (2) 
III. 
Coal 
Fire  clay . 
Coal 
Bone 
Coal 
Bone 
Splint.... 
Fire  clay. 
173J 
65  (1) 
5 
8  -  9 
4J-  « 1(2) 
7 
22J 
116-119 
An  analysis  of  coal  collected  near  the  outcrop,  kindly  furnished  by  Mr.  A.  C.  Collins, 
of  Mount  Vernon,  Ohio,  reveals  the  following  composition: 
Analysis  of  No.  4  coal. 
[Otto  Wuth,  analyst.] 
Water. 
0.97 
Volatile  matter 32. 70 
Fixed  carbon 55.69 
Ash 9. 58 
Sulphur l.  05 
99. 99  , 
This  same  coal  is  brought  above  drainage  on  the  opposite  side  of  the  basin  near  Catletts- 
burg.  A  section  at  a  country  bank  on  Catletts  Creek  is  typical  of  this  seam  in  this  region, 
though  the  two  coal  benches  are  sometimes  larger  and  sometimes  smaller  than  the  figures 
indicated.     This  section  is  as  follows: 
Section  of  coal  underlying  the  Homewood  sandstone  on  Catletts  Creek. 
Inches. 
Coal 12 
Fire  clay 7 
Coal 11 
30 
The  group  of  coal  beds  described  above  is  usually  overlain  by  the  massive  Homewood 
sandstone,  which  lies  a  short  distance  below  the  "  Ferriferous  "  limestone.  In  using  this 
topmost  member  of  the  Pottsville  formation  as  a  guide,  however,  discrimination  must  be 
exercised,  for,  though  it  is  most  commonly  present,  it  sometimes  dwindles  to  a  few  feel  of 
shaly  sandstone.  In  the  region  under  discussion  the  sandstone  may  be  used  without  danger 
of  error,  since  it  is  very  thick  and  massive  throughout  the  Big  Sandy  River  area. 
The  rocks  lying  between  the  Homewood  sandstone  and  the  sandstone  usually  occurring 
above  coal  No.  9  are  known  as  the  Allegheny  formation.  In  this  interval  occur  the  most 
important  and  best-known  coals  of  northeastern  Kentucky.  A  section  taken  at  Coalgrove, 
Ohio,  opposite  Ashland,  shows  this  formation  to  be  about  180  feet  thick. 
North  of  Torchlight,  along  Levisa  Fork,  the  Allegheny  coals  descend  gradually  toward 
the  center  of  the  basin.  The  lowest  coal  in  this  formation  is  not  developed  on  a  working 
scale  in  the  Big  Sandy  country,  but  No.  6,  the  next  higher  coal  of  the  Kentucky  series  and 
the  first  seam  above  the  "Ferriferous"  limestone,  has  been  spasmodically  opened  in  the 
