COAL MINES OF NORTHERN PERRY COUNTY. 901 
The coal, when taken out, leaves a three-foot hole in the ground, 
and when the bone coal is also removed in entries, there is 4 feet of 
space. 
The quality of the coal at several of the mines is somewhat coarser 
than is usual in the seam. It yields a large amount of ash, which is no 
longer of the purple color that marks the northern phase. Much of the 
coal produced is used for locomotive fuel. 
The mines located along the road between Bristol and McCuneville 
are the following, viz.: 
Maholm Coal Company, present output, 9 cars per week. 
Pimlott and Hall, cs OC)  & ‘“ 
Bristoi Mining Company, * 9 ts S 
Levi Rarick, new mine, ‘ Gi arnss “ 
Edward Simpson, a6 QR «6 
J. C. Hamilton, ‘“ 20 “ ‘< 
The price of mining generally ranges 25 cents per ton above the 
price paid at Shawnee. A miner will average about 2 tons of clean coal 
per day. The screens in use are mainly 1 inch between the bars, but a 
good deal of coal is sold as:run of mine.” The entries are not in all 
cases made high enough for mules. 
The Upper Freeport horizon is well shown in this neighborhood, 
but as a source of iron ore rather than of coal. The blackband deposits 
of this immediate neighborhood have been referred to on page 408. 
Bearfield Township. — 
The same line of remark applies to Bearfield township, so far as its 
north-western quarter is concerned, as to the township last described. 
The Middle Kittanning coal, No. 6, is opened on every farm where its 
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STRUCTURE OF MIDDLE KITTANNING COALW‘6) 
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