MASSILLON COAL FIELD. 799 
trated. The small fragments, first analyzed by the survey, also agreed 
fairly well in physical characters with albertite, and gave color to the 
view that had been already suggested, that one of the thin sheets of 
this substance that the black shale contains had been accidentally met in 
the drill-hole. Other and larger samples, afterwards received, dis- 
proved this view, however, and established the character of the mineral 
brought out of the hole as true coal, containing mineral charcoal and 
distinct traces of vegetable structure. The coal was of the type of 
the Pike Run or Coshocton coal, the Middle Kittanning seam of our 
series, and No.6 of Newberry. This seam in eastern Ohio approximates 
to pitch coal in composition, containing less than 50 per cent. of fixed 
carbon, and more than 40 per cent. of volatile matter. The albertite 
of the black shale gives quite similar results. The analyses referred to 
above are the following: 
No. “Albertite,” from Black Shale, Avon Point, Lorain Co., O. 
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2 (73 (75 66 66 (73 
3. Coal from drill-hole, samples rec’d from I. M. Taggart, Canal Fulton. 
Sora si x ry R.S. Paul, Akron. 
5 ws : John Campbell, Canal Fulton. 
6 Blue Rock mines, Muskingum Valley. 
7 Pike Run mines, Tuscarawas county. 
All of them were made by Professor Lord for the Survey. 
1 2 3 4, 5 6 a 
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IMIOIShUNO eae eee. wee cecnes 3.3 4.42 2.3 3.66 2.56 3.50 2.69 
Volatile combustible matter) 43.5 41.08 | 48.0 45.64 | 438.83 | 46.44 | 44.74 
Fixed carbon or coke......... 50.6 52.65 | 48.70 | 47.70 | 49.50 | 45.87 | 46.95 
INGO Se CBAC REE ERT EEA eer 2.6 1.85 1.10 3.00 4.11 49 5.62 
Mota tex eee ecto 100.00 {100.00 {100.00 {100.00 {100.00 100.00 100.00 
SUI see se es ccsonasoesisiee ossien|laseasesieese WUD a |ececsaiweces |eewoeee sees 0.70 3.84 3.09 
From an examination of these figures it will be seen that No. 3) 
the coal from the drill-hole, furnished by I. M. Taggart, Esq., Canal | 
Fulton, keeps well within the figures of the Avon mineral in every 
particular. Its ash runs very low, and its specific gravity is also 
low. The remaining analyses of the coal brought out of the hole, 
viz., Nos. 4 and 5, show an increase in the ash, which is the most dis- 
