COAL MINES OF NORTHERN PERRY COUNTY. 903° 
Station southward to Moxahala. There are several shipping mines 
within this territory. The largest are those of the Sheerhan Brothers 
and of J. C. Elder. 
The composition of the Sheerhan coal is given in the following 
analysis made for the Survey (Lord) : 
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The composition of the bone coal from this mine has been given 
on an earlier page. The quality of the seam at this point is not 
equal to that of the seam at large according to these figures, but it is 
probable that a local modification only is indicated by them. The lower 
bench of the coal is a rich-burning tarry coal, and the whole product is 
readily sold by the side of the coal of the Sunday Creek Valley. 
The seam has been opened on every farm between the south line of 
Section 15 and Moxahala. At the latter place it has fallen a little 
below the level of the valley, but has been opened here and even ina 
small way at various times within the last few years. It holds the 
characters already described until it passes under the Moxahala divide, 
being, up to this limit, a red ash, moderately cementing, rather sulphur- 
ous coal, with a thickness of 3 feet of marketable product, and covered by 
18 to 24 inches of a slaty coal, called bone coal, too high in ash to be sold as 
good fuel. When it emerges from cover, 3 miles to the southward, in the 
deep troughs of Sunday Creek, a very surprising change is found to have 
been wrought in it. It is now a white ash, open-burning coal, low in 
sulphur, and ranging from 8 to 13 feet in thickness. The lower and 
middle bench, however, remain easily recognizable, the former, indeed, 
but little changed in thickness, and less changed in character than the 
other portion of the seam. The development of the upper section is, 
in reality, the most important element. 
At Moxahala, the largest development and the most extensive work- 
ings of the Lower Freeport Coal (No. 6a) in the county, are to be 
found. ‘This seam is here known as the Fowler coal. 
An instructive section can be found at Moxahala and in its im~- 
