COAL MINES OF NORTHERN PERRY COUNTY. 891 
No large mining operations are likely to be undertaken in this. 
township, but the same sort of production that has existed here for a 
generation is likely to be continued for many years to come. 
Harrison township. 
-The Middle Kittanning or upper seam has been and is mined more. 
extensively in this township than in any other of the northern town- 
ships of the county. Not less than 12 sections of the township are 
either traversed by or are directly tributary to the Cincinnati and Mus- 
kingum Valley Railway, and in half of these, coal has been mined on a. 
large scale. In addition to this, it can be said that coal is mined for 
local use in every section of the township. In fact, this coal seam con- 
stitutes a universal sheet throughout Harrison, most of Clayton, jPike,,. 
Beartield, and the northern half of Pleasant townships, being present 
literally everywhere, save only as the accidents of erosion to which the 
present topography is due, have removed it. Not a “ want” or break 
in natural continuity is known throughout this field. In thickness it 
ranges between 3 feet and 4 feet of marketable coal. 
The character of the coal has been already shown in the analysis 
given on page 888. These figures are thought to represent fairly a 
large part of this district. The samples analyzed came from the mines. 
of S. and J. Jones, McLuney Station, the largest mines of the town- 
ship. The section of the coal is given below: 
FAGURK WX 
ST;:RUCTURE OF MIDDLE KITTANNING 
AT JONES!’ MINE MS.LUNEY. 
Bowe Coal =e 
WOSer INGOte 6 a -g” 
Ciner ee amuae ran EMAL UG AY 8 
Povtiad. MN: SERA, Wy RAE, Ble Sed © 
Coal seas au A Sd shai lay dg Sta A ead ® 
YEA pe e -clay he eer ea as J 
The coal mines here in good shape and size. The main entries all 
admit 43-feet mules. The price of mining is generally 10 cents above 
that paid in the thick coal just south of this field. The cost of blasting 
powder is about the same as in the thick coal. ‘There is little waste in 
the seam. The lower slate is easily separated, and there is nothing else 
to make trouble. About 50 miners are steadily employed here, the 
