MASSILLON COAL FIELD. T17 
From the Krouse mine to the Chippewa mine, the distance is 53 
miles, and the direction is southwest as before, but the coal rises in this 
interval 76.3 ft. The Franklin coal is but 46.2 ft. lower than the 
Chippewa coal. The dip from Chippewa to Franklin is about 6% feet 
per mile. Chippewa and Middlebury coals being at the same level, the 
line that connects them may well enough be taken as the line of strike 
or level bearing. This agrees fairly well with the general facts of the 
dip in this region. 
To ascertain the strongest dip, the elevations of the Chippewa 
mine, 468 feet, and of the Mountain mine, 318.5 feet, and also of Wil- 
low Bank, No. 1, 342.5 feet, can be compared. The distance is about 
7% miles. The direction from the Chippewa to the Mountain mine is 
nearly southeast, and the descent is 147.5 feet, or about 20 feet per mile, 
but to the Willow Bank coal, which is west of the Mountain, the fall ts 
only 125 feet, or about 16 feet to the mile. From the Lester mine, 
which is near the Chippewa, but which holds a lower level (448), the 
fall to the Mountain mine is at the rate of 17 feet per mile, and to the 
Willow Bank, about 14 feet per mile. The most southerly mines that 
appear in the list, as the Grove, Warmington, and Pigeon Run, we find 
to the west of the main line of dip, above noted, and lying nearly level 
on a north and south line with the mines nearest Massillon. It is seen 
from these comparisons and from such others as the figures of the pre- 
ceding table render possible, that while the dip is not nearly enough 
uniform in any direction to warrant its employment in determining the 
position of the coal at new stations, still no great anomalies are found, 
and, least of all, does it tend to high figures. 
2. CHARACTER OF THE MASSILLON COAL. 
The Massillon coal is an open-burning coal, containing an average 
of about 53% per cent. of fixed carbon, 37 per cent. of volatile com- 
bustible matter, 53 per cent. of moisture, and 4 per cent. of ash. The 
fixed carbon ranges from 50 to 57 per cent. The volatile combustible 
matter is quite uniform, seldom rising above 38, nor falling below 35 
per cent. The moisture has not been found lower than 44, nor higher 
than 67 per cent. A wider range is shown in the ash, the limits of the 
analyses made for the Survey being respectively 1.6 and 6.3 per cent. 
The percentage of sulphur is about 1.1. These figures evidently show 
one of the very best coals of the State. As will be hereafter seen, 
