HOCKING VALLEY COAL FIELD. 939 
worked, except that the bone coal already described is rejected. The 
composition of the coal is shown in the following analysis : 
Composition of Buckingham Coal Mine No 19 (Lord). Sampled from the Seam. 
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The coal is a trifle lower in fixed carbon thar most of the Great 
Vein, approaching the northern type of the seam in this respect, but in 
its low percentage of sulphur it shows one of the most valuable charac- 
teristics of the field to which it belongs. 
Mine No. 21 of the Ohio Central Company is located in Section 
23, Salt Lick township. It is but recently opened, but is already pro- 
ducing over 200 tons daily. The coal here shows its maximum thick- 
ness, so far as now known, for the entire field, viz., 14 feet. Of this, 
the roof coal makes 4 feet. It is believed that a larger yield will be 
secured from this mine than from any other yet opened in the Sunday 
Creek Valley. Thus far, there has been sent out 73 feet of coal. 
The entries driven southward have already found some trouble, it 
is to be said with regret, but how serious the interruption will prove, it 
requires further development to determine. The coal of this mine is 
continuous with that of the Shawnee mines, not more than one mile 
separating the workings of the two fields, and it must soon acquire the 
full character of the Shawnee coal. A large area is tributary to the 
mine, and it is expected that an output of 300 or 400 tons per day will 
be maintained for a long term of years. Its equipment is especially 
complete. The coal is level-free, the bottom lying a few feet above the 
valley of Hadley’s Run. 
The “Great Vein” was formerly supposed to be present through- 
out the whole township, but there now seems no reason to believe that 
it ever existed in the 6 north-eastern sections of the township, and in 
19 sections, in which it was once laid down, it is known to be either 
faulty or wanting. The best of it is doubtless to be found in Sections 
7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19. 
